FCCfirstclass
Craig,  I bought the pack this week and have listened to and played with most of the pack.  Wow.  Fantastic sounds that jump off my monitors!
 
Thank you so much for your efforts to this project.  I will enjoy building sounds and such with the goodies.

Glad you're enjoying it!

Anderton

chuckebaby
will there be any freeb's for bass month ?
 
thanks

Don't know yet, it took a lot of time to do the Expansion Pack! But, the month isn't over yet
 
BTW - the blog post on the expansion pack now has four audio examples; here are the links to the audio examples that are hosted on SoundCloud. The "Growl" patches are explained in the blog post. Let me know if you have any questions about the examples.
 
Neck+Bridge Instrument
 
Tapped Neck Instrument
 
Tapped Bridge Growl Instrument
 
Neck+Tapped Bridge Instrument

these are outstanding craig.

Anderton
Hey Andrew - Fixed the typo, it's EB, not Eb
 
Thanks for putting up the audio example! I'll see about generating some more demos, I have some complete songs that use the bass so it gives good context.

Hi Craig,
 
I like your blogs - keep them coming!
 
Just one thing though - the sound clips you have are stored using the "Cakewalk Software" SoundCloud user ID.  I followed the user in SC and now have had my stream flooded with these "before and after" sounds used in your blogs. 
 
Is it possible to "hide" these clips in SC and still use them in your blogs? 
 
Please understand, they're just junk in my SC stream but very useful in your blogs..
 
Jim

JimmyBoy
Just one thing though - the sound clips you have are stored using the "Cakewalk Software" SoundCloud user ID.  I followed the user in SC and now have had my stream flooded with these "before and after" sounds used in your blogs. 
 
Is it possible to "hide" these clips in SC and still use them in your blogs?

I don't think so, unless I create a separate SoundCloud account and use that, which would complicate matters. Sorry...I promise I'll make the clips as entertaining as possible in the future

Anderton

JimmyBoy
Just one thing though - the sound clips you have are stored using the "Cakewalk Software" SoundCloud user ID.  I followed the user in SC and now have had my stream flooded with these "before and after" sounds used in your blogs. 
 
Is it possible to "hide" these clips in SC and still use them in your blogs?

I don't think so, unless I create a separate SoundCloud account and use that, which would complicate matters. Sorry...I promise I'll make the clips as entertaining as possible in the future

You do know that you can "Edit" the library of sound(s) in your soundcloud and specify them as Private, then the clip won't get mixed up into others stream...  You should still be able to embed the sound in your blogs.
 

 
In anycase, I've stopped following and have blocked the Cakewalk Software user in SC. 

JimmyBoy
 
You do know that you can "Edit" the library of sound(s) in your soundcloud and specify them as Private, then the clip won't get mixed up into others stream...  You should still be able to embed the sound in your blogs.
 

 
In anycase, I've stopped following and have blocked the Cakewalk Software user in SC. 

Wow, that's harsh. No, actually, I didn't know you could edit them...I'll have to ask Cakewalk if that's how they'd like to have things handled.
 
Do the SoundCloud examples from the other blogs show up as well? I think I've only done about 9 sound examples among all the blogs I've written...doesn't seem all the onerous.

Not being harsh,  I tried to block and didn't remove the sounds from my stream...
 
If I still had following enabled for Cakewalk Software then I would have seen the bass sounds from your new blogs you recently put up, they would have been included in my stream too.

I'm usually not one for buying synth expansion packs (Sonar comes with so many sounds as it is) but this may be one I consider. Reason being I've got a plan for my bass parts that I've been wanting to try out now that we have the ARA/Melodyne thingie happening. I have an old Squier P-Bass. It sounds pretty good considering it's a bit of a cheapo and the pickup is smashed to hell but obviously it's a little limited as far as sounds and the tone isn't all that even when moving around the tonal spectrum/neck and I don't have a real bass amp or sim (I want MarkII eventually). So what I was going to do to beef it up a bit was use Melodyne to convert my live bass tracks to MIDI then dig around the various bass sounds or even some of the wackier stuff to double up and blend with the live part.
 
This however could be a much better way to reinforce my bass tracks while keeping things as realistic as possible. Still wish I hadn't missed out on that freebie. Gotta stop dilly dallying on stuff like that. I guess I just assume that once it's out there it will remain available but after missing out a few times already apparently I was wrong.
 
Thanks for putting the work into this, Craig.

Beepster
So what I was going to do to beef it up a bit was use Melodyne to convert my live bass tracks to MIDI then dig around the various bass sounds or even some of the wackier stuff to double up and blend with the live part.

 
I'm getting into playing bass parts on guitar, then using Melodyne to convert to MIDI and drive the bass sounds. Of course I need to clean up things a bit, but not much. I think I'll post one more example of the EB 5-String Bass Expansion Pack in context with a complete song. What's cool is that it sticks out of the track but isn't mixed particularly high...I definitely recommend some high-frequency shelving on the EB bass sounds if you want them to be prominent as opposed to lay back in the track.
 

Still wish I hadn't missed out on that freebie. Gotta stop dilly dallying on stuff like that. I guess I just assume that once it's out there it will remain available but after missing out a few times already apparently I was wrong.

No worries, the Bass Freebie, Wah FX chain, Power Chord FX chain, AND the AdrenaLinn Guitar loop library samples are still available. Just go to the Cakewalk Blog and scroll down to the Guitar Month Bonus Pack entry and you'll find links for all four.

JimmyBoy
You do know that you can "Edit" the library of sound(s) in your soundcloud and specify them as Private, then the clip won't get mixed up into others stream...  You should still be able to embed the sound in your blogs.

I just tried that, and the player in the blog shows a 404 and "ooops, can't find that sound" or something like that.
 
I think I can include a standard link in the blog that goes to the player (link in the post above), but then people lose out on the player interface in the blog. I'll see what Cakewalk thinks about the best way to handle this. Frankly I don't use SoundCloud myself, I post all my music on YouTube so this is unfamiliar territory.