Toontrack Completes Your Virtual Rhythm Section
Toontrack’s EZbass virtual instrument brings the same great sound and intuitive workflow that made EZdrummer a staple to the world of bass guitar. Far more than a virtual instrument, EZbass offers amazing sound quality and fundamental features that let you add realistic bass tracks to your songs with minimal effort. You can choose between Vintage and Modern tones and let EZbass instantly build a bass line; convert pre-recorded guitar, piano, and drums to MIDI; or input your bass line with a keyboard controller. According to Erik Phersson, Toontrack’s Head of Software Development, EZbass “goes above and beyond a traditional sampled instrument. EZbass is a bass player as much as it is an immaculate sound library.” Solo artists and producers at Sweetwater have long valued Toontrack's virtual instruments for letting them fill out their songs with immaculate-sounding parts, even when they don’t play those instruments. And, with EZbass, it’s easier than ever to add rock-solid groove to your productions without ever picking up a bass.
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Create bass lines fast with smart technology
Toontrack knows that when artists are chasing their creative impulses, they want to be able to lay down ideas quickly. With that in mind, the company outfitted EZbass with several powerful and intuitive methods for crafting bass lines. EZbass’s “Add Groove” instantly generates a driving 8th-note bass line that follows an inputted chord progression. Want to match a bass line to previously recorded MIDI keys or drums? No problem! EZbass will create a line that locks in both rhythmically and melodically. Got a rhythmic idea kicking around your head? With EZbass, you can simply tap in a rhythm, and the software will match it to numerous groove variations found in EZbass’s MIDI library. EZbass also has the ability to convert audio tracks, including guitar, keyboard, and drum performances, to MIDI and generate a complementary bass line.
5 ways to build a groove with EZbass
- "Add Groove" gets a basic rhythm going
- Automatically create a bass line from drum or keyboard MIDI
- Tap in a rhythm, and EZbass will find all matching variations
- Convert previously recorded audio to MIDI
- Perform the bass line yourself with a MIDI controller
Choose from modern and vintage bass sample libraries
With EZbass, you can choose between a modern and a vintage bass. The modern bass, captured with finger, pick, and slap playing styles, is a dynamic, expressive instrument that houses a unique configuration of single-coil pickups with an active hum-canceling coil mounted in between, delivering a tight, punchy, noise-free sound. On the other hand, the vintage bass acts as the perfect foil with its distinct set of harmonics, tone, and feel, making it the ideal selection for blues, country, rock, and jazz.
Fine-tune your performances for unmatched naturalism
One of the things that sets EZbass apart from other virtual bass software is its extensive suite of customization options that let you fine-tune a part so that it is nearly indistinguishable from the real thing. EZbass contains an exhaustive list of articulations. You can dive into details such as alternating fingers when programming fingerstyle lines, creating percussive slap performances, and adding dead notes and ghost notes just like a seasoned bassist would. EZbass also serves up a host of FX processors and a selection of amazing amps and cabs — there’s no end to the variety of tones you can achieve!
Toontrack: bringing the world-class studio home
Since the advent of home studios, recording musicians have struggled to attain a pro-quality sound. That’s where Toontrack comes in. The company’s software bridges the gap between your humble project studio and the world’s finest recording spaces. Whether you’re a creative singer/songwriter or a home-recording hobbyist, when you need a session drummer, a keyboardist, a bassist, or help to achieve a studio-quality mix, Toontrack has a solution for you. At Sweetwater, we’re confident that with Toontrack’s innovative products in your arsenal, you’ll achieve the “real studio” sound you’ve been aiming for.
Toontrack EZbass Features:
- Revolutionary new bass software instrument
- Vintage and Modern bass tones to fit any genre
- Combines the use of MIDI and smart songwriting features
- Builds on the framework of Toontrack’s widely successful EZ Line products, which includes EZdrummer 2
- A sample engine optimized for use with bass samples, offering a new level of nuance and detail
- Presets for a wide range of styles, based on amp and cab simulation and on the same complex network of effects used in all EZ Line products