Without a Real outstanding piece of Bass (Not Talking about the average Joe Cheapo Bass ) you won't be able to get the High quality Sound of the Trilian and if it Sounds Real, Depends only on your skills as a programmer and Not a Player.Īnd.you would have to be a really Good bassplayer with the Real Bass. You want to Play Bass Parts without a Computer Plugin, you want "ok" sounding Results which have to be processed veryĮxtensively to fit later in the Mix and don't really care about Not getting that "Million Dollar Bass Sound" you are able to get with Trilian without fuxxin' Around in the Mix.get the Real Bass. All in all Spectrasonics Trilian VSTi is an impressive application which will bring various different types of Bass together into an impressive sounding. You compose your Music Alone and have Time and a Good PC/Mac? You want to have a realistic Bass Sound? Get the Trilian and forget about the Real Bass. Spectrasonics Trilian VSTi also features 4-Pole Juicy and Power filter algorithms with the oscillating resonance that are that are ideal for the electronic bass.
you would have to learn how to use it (programming, Modulation, dead notes,) but when you got it Once, it's a Mighty Tool and it's also Hard to get an average Real Bass sounding Even 50 % the quality of the Trilian. I'm Not a Keyboard Player, but After several Weeks of working with the Trilian I get Sounds, that are really Hard to get with the "Real Life Counterpart". He's a very skilled Player and uses an Ibanez BTB 6String, Amp-wise he's using my Axe's SVT- Preset, and till now it isn't possible, to get the fat, defined tone that I recorded with the Trilian, Even by Extreme usage of Tools for compression, limiting, equing.
Now the bassplayer of my old Band is joining the Project and is trying to replace the Trilian Bass Parts (Hardcore Bass SVT Preset) by playing the Parts "for Real", which is quite difficult. I've been using Trilian (and Omnisphere) now for several months for composing Demos. I used to program parts, but then bought a bass to aid workflow. You will gain a perspective by playing bass that you will never get by playing keyboards. Doing this takes time, and as I'm assuming you're a stringed instrument player first, getting familiar with those sound you want on the actual instrument will feel more natural.Įssentially, you will need to learn to be a keyboard player to gain fluency, and not every VSTi uses the same functionality per key.Īnother point is that playing bass is a skill that can be brought to a band, or taught, and there are specific bass guitar grade systems out there. With a bass, you have the notes at your fingertips in a much more tactile way than you do when programming, unless you have spent the time getting familiar with all the different MIDI program changes, keystrokes, controller changes. (On a side note, I think this is more a left/right brain thing. This takes time, and interrupts the creative flow.
For instance, when programming a bass part in Trillian, I would need to change sounds and hunt out the slap sound for the sound that I wanted. However, when you're programming you write without instrumental embellishment. I used to program bass parts, and they were pretty functional.