How to imitate a bass slide on a keyboard

Posted by: yis1559

How to imitate a bass slide on a keyboard - 10/10/07 02:22 PM

Hi,

I'm arranging a song, and I want to imitate a bass slide and I couldn't work it out to sound right with the pitch bend. Any suggestions?

P.S. I've got a PSR-S900
Posted by: TwoNuts

Re: How to imitate a bass slide on a keyboard - 10/10/07 03:21 PM

Portamento.
Adjust the timing to suit your preference and then apply it to whichever base sound you want to use.
You could then assign Portamento On/Off to a foot pedal to apply it when you needed it.(if that option exists)
That is one way to do it.
Maybe not the best, but certainly one way.

Regards,

Dennis L. Almond
aka...TwoNuts


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Posted by: Dnj

Re: How to imitate a bass slide on a keyboard - 10/10/07 03:22 PM

Dennis good ideas.....Try adjusting your pitch bend open to a larger gap to imitate a real slide at excactly the right time while you play......

[This message has been edited by Dnj (edited 10-10-2007).]
Posted by: Diki

Re: How to imitate a bass slide on a keyboard - 10/10/07 05:26 PM

Look carefully at all the tones.... There may very well be a sampled bass slide in there (there is on Roland's).
Posted by: Uncle Dave

Re: How to imitate a bass slide on a keyboard - 10/10/07 05:56 PM

First...make sure the bass tone you use is mono....then try portamento!
Posted by: shiral

Re: How to imitate a bass slide on a keyboard - 10/10/07 06:02 PM

I don't own a S900, but I was under the impression that such bass slides could be found in the four MegaVoice bass voices (last four under 'Guitar & Bass' category).

Can't one use one of those voices with velocity fix (set to the velocity value the slide is triggered) if such available?

If velocity fix is not available maybe with 'touch sense depth' (set to 0) and 'touch sense offset' (set to the velocity value the slide is triggered).

Shiral
Posted by: yis1559

Re: How to imitate a bass slide on a keyboard - 10/10/07 11:06 PM

thanks for the advise. I guess there is no real easy way to do it!