MODO Bass - What the hell is this????

[RolandMHall]

I just came across this, and it looks like they want to put all of us out of business.

It might be cool for some, but to me, you just can't fake bass or any live instrument for that matter. You'll always get that "fake" synthetic sound....

Maybe it's just me, but I hate what music is turning into.

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Blasphemy.....

 

[Lownote38]

It still doesn't sound real to me. It's always the little nuances that they get wrong.

 

[bobcruz]

Didn't sound anything like the real thing to me either.

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

Programmed bass is nothing new at all. There's nothing wrong or blasphemous about it either- it's just another way to make music.

 

[dtripoli]

Synth bass has been here almost as long as drum machines. It's just more sophisticated.
For what it's worth, I saw the role of real bass player becoming limited when Parliament/Funkadelics
switch from funky bassist to synth keys.
Funk bass which originated in Soul-R&B is now noticeably absent from almost all Rap/Hip-Hop songs.
For that matter, most Rap songs have absolutely no musicians at all performing on the recordings.
Just some sound design music programmer picking and choosing beats, loops and samples while a
non vocalists recites profanity-laced schoolyard rhymes through autotune.
Just sayin....

Then again, when the stand up bassist and trumpet player saw the electric bass and guitar take over pop music, they said it was the end of beautiful, inspired music.

 

[abarson]

For the amount of dicking around you have to do with it before you play, you're better off buying and plugging in the real thing. And it won't have the feel.

 

[FilterFunk]

For what it's worth, I saw the role of real bass player becoming limited when Parliament/Funkadelics switch from funky bassist to synth keys.

Actually, P-Funk never switched - they used both brilliantly. They didn't limit themselves to one or the other.

They realized that they could have their Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell, too. And other amazing bassists and keyboardists as well.

 

[twinjet]

Just leaving this right here.

 

[J Posega]

For the amount of dicking around you have to do with it before you play, you're better off buying and plugging in the real thing. And it won't have the feel.

Except if you aren't a bass or guitar player.

I think it sounds great. Not perfect, by better than what came before it.

Just another tool in the toolbox, just like some you whiners.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

That slapbass line in Seinfeld continues to fool me every time I watch the show.

 

[J Posega]

That slapbass line in Seinfeld continues to fool me every time I watch the show.

That was a sampled bass guitar. It only gets really obvious when the riffs are in the high register or it makes crazy multi octave leaps.

 

[dtripoli]

Guitar players that traffic in soaring lead noodling probably bemoan the decline of the Guitar God that was
present in most every group until Eddie Van Halen took the lead guitar to the woodshed beat the poor thing until it died.
The backlash spawned Grunge and the anti-guitar sound, New Wave.
The role of guitar players in current bands is mostly relegated to straight rhythm work or chord type lead lines.
Obviously there are major exceptions to this observation but I think overall the role of the Guitar God in current radio play songs is little used today and if it is, sparingly.
Note, country music can be excluded completely from this theory as pickin' and a grinnin' never had soaring noodlers just incredible skilled musicians but I will say it probably pushed C&W towards the now prevalent, Pop Country.

 

[Gianni "Orlandez" Orlati]

Just leaving this right here.

THUMBS UP!

 

[40Hz]

Sounds like a lot of the overcompressed overly EQed play it by the numbers on "real bass" you're hearing on CDs lately. Not quite 100%. But close enough for the formulaic pop crud they tend to use that sort of sound on.

 

[Callused Finger]

That slapbass line in Seinfeld continues to fool me every time I watch the show.

I picture fingers hitting the keys every time.

 

[J Posega]

Crotchety old uprights players bemoaned the rise of the electric bass. Guess what, upright bass still exists.

 

[dtripoli]

Crotchety old uprights players bemoaned the rise of the electric bass. Guess what, upright bass still exists.

Bingo!
But there was a time when nearing all recordings and live performances were with Upright Basses only, even early Rock n Roll.
The Clarinet and Trumpet used to the the go-to instruments for melody lines in pop music. They are
still around but barely heard outside of jazz and even at that, the clarinet is pretty much only heard in marching bands.

 

[MonetBass]

I sequence all of the drum tracks on my songs. Why? Because I'm not a drummer and can't afford to hire one. There are a lot of sequenced drum AND bass tracks out there of which you may or may not be aware. At the end of the day, as other have said, a human player is better.

 

[J Posega]

Bingo!
But there was a time when nearing all recordings and live performances were with Upright Basses only, even early Rock n Roll.
The Clarinet and Trumpet used to the the go-to instruments for melody lines in pop music. They are
still around but barely heard outside of jazz and even at that, the clarinet is pretty much only heard in marching bands.

Trumpet barely heard outside of jazz?

Honestly, I don't know what era of pop you're referencing that had the clarinet as the lead. Sax, sure. Clarinet?

 

[dtripoli]