![]() ![]() That said, the best ones I’ve tried recently have been Native Instrument’s FUNK GUITARIST and Impact Soundworks SHREDDAGE 2. That said, the sample sets and VSTi’s today are FAR more realistic and offer lots of nuance…the big challenge is to play/program them well, which in many cases is NOT easy. ![]() So if Toontrack did manage to pre-package the entire song writing and production process into a push button turn key operation so easy that (in the words of Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott) “a chimpanzee and two trainees could do it” then what happens to real LIVE music?Īs far as playing rhythm patterns along with your project, the best “EZ Guitar” software VST that ever was, was Virtual Guitarist 2 which has LONG been discontinued. ![]() (or if I could persuade 4 or 5 other talents to learn all my tunes, I’d love to do an all original band!) But there doesn’t seem to be much lure for hearing a lone axe slinger play along with his own canned backing tracks. The big problem I run into being a do-it-all-myself “computer musician” who can only play one instrument keys or guitar at a time, is when people ask me to play my songs live! Now what do I do? If there were 5 or 6 of me then yeah I could put a band up and play the tunes. When all they had to do was offer us an almost inifinite variety of rhythmical patterns, Toontrack’s efforts were timely and to the mark! But throwing in parameters of keys and chord progressions and pitches on top of infinite timing variations, wow! That would be monumental. I love my Toontrack stuff because I never learned to play drums. Easy for me to say because I play keys, guitar, and bass. Seems like it would be too much tedium to make the instrumental riffs and licks match my own songs, timing, chord changes, etc. I would find such a product interesting, but not really useful. the “Pre Packaged Song Production and Mix” thread. I think I ended up kinda responding to two threads at once here, sorry. I’m kinda in a “I have a million ideas” songwriter mode ,right now. Sorry, I just woke up and happened to read this thread. It wouldn’t even be hard(for Toontrack guys) if you used the Ez Keys and Ez Player layouts as the core and considered all existing Toontrack products as more or less “expansions”. I haven’t seen anything like this for PC and I think Toontrack could create this product, help fill a need in the marketplace, and make lots of money with it. I think you guys should consider my EZ Songwriter idea. It was bloated, ugly looking, software with what I ultimately decided was not a user-friendly GUI/layout. I know because recently, in an attempt to find a piece of software to speed my songwriting process, I tried Band in a Box. Toontracks products are so much easier to use than something like Band in a Box, too. It would be a hit if Toontrack did something akin to this, but with the EZ Keys and EZ Drummer formats combined(or have the programs speaking together), with parts played by real players. It does what I’m talking about with my MIDI ideas, but it sounds like quantized midi files and doesn’t have an extensive chord library. I have been using a program called Chordpulse for a while. This brings me to my third idea, which is EZ Songwriter. I would definitely like to buy an EZ Bass Songwriter’s MIDI library or an EZ Sessions MIDI library. In this case, you could capture a real core rhythm section (Bass, Drums, and Keys/Guitar), playin selections (together in realtime), organized by Genre, and released in MIDI format. In fact, you guys could take this as far as an EZ Sessions MIDI library. ![]() I would gladly pay top dollar for a EZ Bass Songwriter’s MIDI library. The things that take most of my time when writing are Drums, Bass guitar, and Keys. This is a product that would tremendously speed up the songwriting process for me. The biggies, for me, in order, are Bluegrass(think upright), Folk, Soul, Country, Blues, Reggae, Funk, and Jazz. I need a pack that will include several variations from many genres. I guess that what I am asking for is really EZ Bass Songwriter’s MIDI. For me, the samples part is already more than covered, but let’s say I want a Reggae bass part in a song…it would be so nice (and EZ) if I could just surf through my library of Reggae bass patterns to find a part close to what I want and just drop that in. What I’d like is actually a library of common patterns, walks, and runs/fills played by a real bass player and categorized by style in the MIDI format. I also cast my vote for EZ Bass, but really I don’t want the samples. ![]()
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