Virtual Bassist

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Virtual Bassist

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Now, launch Virtual Bassist as a stand-alone application. You can launch the program

just like any other application on your computer through the Start menu or desktop icon

(Windows) or by double-clicking the application symbol in the Applications folder (Mac).

You can also double-click the Virtual Bassist program file in the installation folder.

Now when playing a Style with Virtual Bassist, the sound is streamed via

ReWire to the assigned mixer channels in your host. Note that you are

now running two completely separate applications. When you save your

sequencer project, this will include the overall channel and bus configu-

ration, but none of the settings in Virtual Bassist! To retain your Virtual

Bassist settings, choose the Save Bank command from the Virtual

Bassist File menu. You may want to choose a file name that indicates

that the file contains settings created for a particular sequencer project.

Similarly, when you re-open a project in your sequencer application and

have launched Virtual Bassist, use the Load Bank command in Virtual

Bassist to reload any settings pertaining to this particular project.

Latency

Although Virtual Bassist is practically latency-free, high latency times

(the delay between pressing keys on your MIDI keyboard and hearing

a sound) can occur when you play Virtual Bassist via your MIDI key-

board in real time.

This is often caused by the audio card or the MIDI interface, although

it won’t be an issue when playing back a project with a Virtual Bassist

MIDI track. To get rid of annoying real time latency, we recommend

you to replace your current audio card with a professional audio card

for which an ASIO driver is available. Most soundcards built into off-

the-shelf computers don’t use an ASIO driver and usually produce

large latencies of up to several hundred milliseconds.

Using a single button mouse (Mac)

Throughout the Virtual Bassist manual, references will be made to

right clicking (i.e. on a mouse with more than one button, clicking with

the button on the right). If you have a mouse with only a single button,

you get the same result as when right-clicking by holding down the

[Ctrl] key on your keyboard and clicking.