Studio Bass in Logic Pro for iPad
The studio instruments are high-quality multisampled players that offer a collection of solo and grouped instrument presets. See Studio Piano, Studio Strings, and Studio Horns.
Studio Bass is a highly expressive sample-based software instrument that emulates the sound of several electric basses and an upright acoustic bass, each with their own sonic characteristics. It’s optimized for use with the Bass Player, but it also works with MIDI and pattern regions. You can also use a MIDI keyboard to play and record with Studio Bass.
If you’re new to using plug-ins in Logic Pro for iPad, see Add, replace, reorder, and remove plug-ins in the Plug-ins area.
Studio Bass contains parameters for volume, tone, pickup controls, and other sonic characteristics typical of the selected bass instrument. See Studio Bass Main view and Studio Bass Details view.
As with a real bass instrument, notes played with Studio Bass can have different tonal qualities depending on their neck position. When a note is played, Studio Bass provides visual feedback by indicating the positions of the hand and notes in the area resembling a fretboard at the bottom of the plug-in window. You can influence these positions through the use of MIDI Out channels. See Studio Bass string and position MIDI channels.
You can use articulations with Studio Bass to create expressive, nuanced performances and recordings. When you load a Studio Bass instrument patch from the browser, an articulation set is automatically loaded. There are separate articulation sets for each playing style of the electric bass instruments, and one for the American Upright instrument. You can access them in the Articulation pop-up menu in the plug-in header and in the Piano Roll Editor. See Patches overview and Set the articulation IDs in the Piano Roll Editor.
When performing or recording with Studio Bass, you can use a keyswitch map for the current articulation set to change articulations as you play. See Studio Bass keyswitch mapping in Logic Pro for iPad.
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