bass line isolation app

[low&]

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Edited June 1, 2014 by low&

[Happy Jack]

That looks quite cunning.

I'll see if they do a non-Apple version for normal people ...

[bengreen49]

oooh that looks handy.

[CamdenRob]

Are you perchance affiliated to the publisher of this app....?

[Stuart Clayton]

You can do the same thing with Transcribe! from www.seventhstring.com. I use this pretty much every day, and it's invaluable.

When I was a kid I discovered that if you played music back through a double tape deck on high speed dubbing (so copying to another cassette), the bass 'popped' out of the mix, an octave higher. I realised that this was an excellent way to pick out difficult to hear lines, and found that it works particularly well for low 5-string parts. This can be replicated in Transcribe! by transposing the piece up one octave, making the bass pop out of the mix. You can further enhance the bass using the preset EQ filters and adjust to your liking using the graphic.

Anyway, it seems that this app does the same thing, which is certainly very useful. It's a little bit cheaper as well.

Good find!
Stuart

[bluesparky]

[quote name='Stuart Clayton' timestamp='1389263103' post='2331967']
You can do the same thing with Transcribe! from www.seventhstring.com. I use this pretty much every day, and it's invaluable.

When I was a kid I discovered that if you played music back through a double tape deck on high speed dubbing (so copying to another cassette), the bass 'popped' out of the mix, an octave higher. I realised that this was an excellent way to pick out difficult to hear lines, and found that it works particularly well for low 5-string parts. This can be replicated in Transcribe! by transposing the piece up one octave, making the bass pop out of the mix. You can further enhance the bass using the preset EQ filters and adjust to your liking using the graphic.

Anyway, it seems that this app does the same thing, which is certainly very useful. It's a little bit cheaper as well.

Good find!
Stuart
[/quote]

Same here! I annoyed the hell out of my pare to by playing tapes at the faster speed to learn basslines, and seventh string's transcribe is the single best piece of software I've bought.
I'll check out this isolation software too though to see if it tickles my fancy.
Cheers

[ML94]

Will this also isolate say horn parts? So you can pick the frequency and then work whatever you want out?

[spinynorman]

No Android version. I guess real musicians all love Apple.

[lowdown]

Looks great - I think I will grab this for my iPad, it will be useful for on the go.
The App is a decent price as well.

I have Transcribe on my desk top (and of course it's great)
but it does look a[size=4] bit like some cartoon animation.[/size]

[size=4]Thanks for the heads up [u]low&.[/u][/size]

[originalfunkbrother]

I have just downloaded it, many thanks OP!

[crag42]

How much is the full version?

[Platypus]

Thanks, downloading free version now,,,,

[miles'tone]

[quote name='spinynorman' timestamp='1389451956' post='2334306']
No Android version. I guess real musicians all love Apple.
[/quote]

Balls. Was getting really excited there too.

[Lw.]

Isn't listening to music & working out the bass line one of the foundations of playing the bass? Guitarists might as well use an app the listens to their chords & plots a bass line for them.

Need a bassist? There's an app for that...

[gub]

Giving it a go now, cheers for that

[achknalligewelt]

Just used it to hear some of the finer detail (finally) in the bassline to This Is A Low by Blur. It's only been 20 years...

[Annoying Twit]

I downloaded transcribe, and it seems that it will be useful. But, I was curious about the technology. I made my own version as a Max/MSP patch. It doesn't seem to produce as clear a result as transcribe!, but it's somewhere in the ballpark. It could be that I need to work on the filters a bit, both their cutoff/Qs and the choice of filter objects. The pitch-shifting and playback speed modification both seem quite reasonable.

Edited January 24, 2014 by Annoying Twit

[dannybuoy]

Since the bass is usually mixed dead centre, could you add an algorithm to subtract elements panned left and right? This used to be the old trick to remove vocals, it was a push button on some tape decks!