Open your Reaper Project File, and drag/drop the midi file on one available project track in Reaper. STEP 2 : IMPORTING THE GP MIDI BASS TRACK IN YOUR DAW (REAPER) AND PLAYING IT BACK : Now we’re gonna export that bass track in MIDI format.īefore we export, we’re gonna erase the other tracks and leave the bass track only, so that GP only exports that bass track. If you play this part back, it sounds alright, like a bass player is playing slides and stuff, but it sounds WEAK (which means the tone is good enough for songwriting but not good enough for a good production). You can also notice that the bass tracks has some velocity changes here and there (there are 5 different velocities to choose from in Guitar Pro : Mezzo Forte / XX) to simulate a more realistic playing. The 1->5 part lasts one beat, but the slide itself lasts half a beat. The first note is on beat 1, the second note is on beat 1,5 (is that correct ?). INSERT SCREENSHOT of brutal song bass part with legato slideĪ legato slide means you’re hitting the first note (1 sliding note) and sliding to the next note (5 destination note) without hitting the latter.

Open a Guitar Pro file with a bass track that features specific articulations such as slides/legato.Įxample : Here is one track of mine that features a legato slide at the beginning of bar #XX (and regular notes for the rest of the bar) : STEP 1 : EXPORTING A MIDI BASS TRACK WRITTEN IN GUITAR PRO :

I’ve finally found out how to do that so here is a tutorial for those who use the “Guitar Pro MIDI bass track into DAW played by Trilian VSTi” thing and struggle to have those specific articulations (slides/legato) played properly.ĭISCLAIMER : This tutorial is in a work in progress status, which means I’m still adding parts (including pics !) and editing the layout here and there, so for now it may not be completed, thorough and readable, but that should be the case soon hopefully.ĭISCLAIMER 2 : My English is far from perfect, let me know if I need to correct some parts language-wise. The issue has been discussed in that thread : Whereas having your GP MIDI drums track work well with your drums VSTi (Superior 2 for me) requires almost no effort at all, the bass tracks are a bit trickier, since some of the articulations such as slides/legato are not VSTi-ready (well, at least for Trilian) when imported in your DAW. Hi, like some other people here, I write my music in Guitar Pro (I’m using Guitar Pro 5 btw) and then export it as MIDI to be used as a VSTi-played backing track in my DAW (Reaper for now, Cubase 5 later on). TUTORIAL : handling bass articulations with Trilian using a Guitar Pro MIDI track :

Trilian bass samples