[LAU] bass line

Anders Dahnielson anders at dahnielson.com
Tue Apr 22 17:19:36 EDT 2008


On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:34 PM, schoappied <schoappied at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Bass guitar parts are usually written on the bass clef, just like the
> > left hand part of a piano score, and should be in the same key as the
> > guitar part (no transposing needed). Bass guitar, like guitar, sounds
> > an octave lower than written. The 4th string on the bass (low E) is
> > two octaves below the low E (6th string) on a guitar.
> >
> >
> Thanks.
> But for recording with rosegarden and linuxsampler.... does the bass
> *.gig file also sounds a octave lower than written?
>

It depends entirely on the specific GIG instrument. Normally, afaik, most
instrument authors map the samples to their true pitch. At least that is
true for all orchestra libraries I know of, you otherwise would have a lot
of "crazy" transposing to keep in mind. But I don't know if it's also true
for all bass libraries in general.

-- 
Anders Dahnielson
<anders at dahnielson.com>
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