You're right, tagruvto, that's a faked bass played on a keyboard. I don't quantize anything in an attempt to make it at least sound like a human played it, even if not the way a bass player would.
BTW, if anyone's curious, that bass part is a heavily processed sampled instrument (Trillian), where I've routed it to a parallel bus that contains distortion (D16
Redoptor) and chorus (Meldaproduction
MChorusMB). I like that particular chorus on bass because it's multi-band, allowing me to leave the low frequencies alone. And Redoptor for lots of things, from drums to vocals.
Because this song has been serving as a test bed for new instruments, I've also added the
new tambourine from SampleHero (
thread in Deals forum). It's called "Brass/Nickel Recording Tambourine" and it's a bargain at ten bucks. I stuck it in over the mandolin part if you want to give it a listen.