Bass · Source 15

Electric bass.

Written as MIDI. Played as an electric bass.

Write the line in your piano roll and get a bass back on the track — the finger on the string, notes that ring or stop exactly as long as you wrote them, dry.

Play it in the browser or on a track in your DAW · dø1, $12 a month with Pro
§ 01 · Hear it

Hear it.

Listen for the attacks. Each note starts with a finger on a string, and no two starts are quite the same.

The part is the melody of After You’ve Gone — 34 notes at 138 bpm, the one the chooser on /sources plays on every instrument. This is the electric bass’s render as it came back: nothing played, sampled or edited.

15EbElectric bassE1–G4
Take 1 · Electric bass
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The chooser’s melody — 34 notes at 138 bpm — rendered as electric bass. Nothing played, sampled or edited.

§ 02 · In your DAW

MIDI in. Audio out.

Write the part in the piano roll you already use — Logic Pro, Ableton Live, FL Studio, REAPER, Cubase and Studio One — with dø1 on the track, or upload a .mid at /tools/sources. Notes, timing and velocity are read as written.

What comes back is a electric bass take: dry, close-mic, 24-bit / 48 kHz, on the track it came from. Usually 20 to 60 seconds. Render again and you get a different take.

Rendering in the browser is free with an account — 120 credits a month, 10 per 30-second render. The plugin is part of Pro, $12 a month: 2,000 credits, dø1 (AU and VST3) and Dø Desktop, which installs it.

Get the DAW plugin AU & VST3 · installs with Dø Desktop
15EbElectric bassE1–G4
Bass · Electric bass
In
MIDI — the piano roll on a dø1 track, or a .mid at /tools/sources
Out
A electric bass take · dry, close-mic · 24-bit / 48 kHz
Range
E1–G4
Time
20 to 60 seconds a render
Price
$12 a month with Pro · free in the browser with an account

The attack is the feel.

What makes a bass part sit is mostly the first fifty milliseconds of each note: the finger pulling the string, the small inconsistency from note to note that a player cannot help. Round-robin samples fake that with a handful of alternates. Here each note is rendered in the context of the line, so a repeated eighth-note groove has the variation of a played one.

The render is dry — the signal at the end of the cable, not a finished bass sound. Amp, compression and EQ depend on the track, so they stay yours.

Questions.

Does it follow my velocities?

Yes. Hard, short notes for a driving line; long, soft ones for a ballad; low velocities for ghost notes.

Does it loop or follow my groove?

It follows the MIDI exactly — the timing you wrote, swing and ghost notes included — as one performance.

Can I give it a bass tone I like?

Yes. Drop up to 30 seconds of a bass recording on the TIMBRE well and the part is played in that tone.

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