TIP: beef up your bass

[DarkStar]

How about being able to track your bass playing and boost its main pitch and harmonics? Here's how:

In any EQ with a Modulator (I'm using MFilter) use a pitch-following Modulator to modulate the Frequency of an EQ band. Also, set the Gain, Q and Harmonics.



Now, as you play your bass the EQ band's frequency will change, boosting the note and its harmonics.

Paste this into a spare A...H preset to try it out; the Gain, Q and Harmonics parameters are mapped to multiparameters so you can control them from your host. In this example, the harmonics are set to Linear, but you may wish to change them.

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[jmg8]

Can you upload it to the online exchange please.

[Distorted Horizon]

Not possible with MEqualizer?

[DarkStar]

No modulators

[pumafred]

How about MBassador?

[MeldaProduction]

Cool stuff!

MBassador could work too, it wouldn't change the higher frequencies, but it could resynthesize both the fundamental and 2 subs .

[pumafred]

MBassador could work too, it wouldn't change the higher frequencies

The first module in MBassador lets you post-process the bass content so that it is stable and tight and contains higher harmonics, so that it is audible even when played on a cheap pair of headphones so many listeners use these days.

https://www.meldaproduction.com/MBassador

[pumafred]

Isn´t this preset similar to SurferEq?
And didn´t we discuss SurferEq sometime in the past and find that it already existed in Melda, I think as MBassador? O was it MCharacter?
(I´m saying all this in a friendly and hopefully constructive tone, I hope! )

[DarkStar]

^^^
SurferEQ was where I got the idea

[MeldaProduction]

Yeah, we had it long before them... .
Anyways MCharacter could work too, but that one is spectral, so there's latency, plus it needs to be monophonic. MBassador will work on just about anything.

[ATN69]

MBassador does a very good job to beef up any kind of bass sounds. Just drive it gently

[VariKusBrainZ]

Isn´t this preset similar to SurferEq?
And didn´t we discuss SurferEq sometime in the past and find that it already existed in Melda, I think as MBassador? O was it MCharacter?
(I´m saying all this in a friendly and hopefully constructive tone, I hope! )

A month or 2 ago and and I think the conclusion was the pitch tracking wasnt ideal unless you use a suitable monophonic source.
From experience bass is the least reliable due to inherent wavelength/detection problems.

Probably better off using midi note input if viable

[VariKusBrainZ]

Just wanted to clarify I'm not poo pooing the technique because it's been used in many products

I was utilising my Sonuus i2m for this with software before i bought their Wahoo pedal which incorporates pitch tracking. Sonuus have developed decent monophonic pitch tracking hardware that's affordable and takes the resource and latency issue away from ITB users

[Tagirijus]

My guess it that Vojtech made a secret deal with the devil to publish MBassador.




Just loving this plugin.

[DarkStar]

PS: Did I mention Pitch modulation by MIDI? And this one will work in MEqualizer

Set up this is the MIDI Settings window:


The need for a Shift value of -12 is a buglet, I believe (will send details to Vojtech). Then make sure that you send both the audio and MIDI to the plug-in. Playing an F1 (through Dune) gives:

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