Marty, Ive been wrestling with EZ bass, I came across this instructinal video, which shows you how to basicly write the bass line in the grid editor, without having to play it at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X1SEqcoDL4

My beef has been, if I play the guitar, which then converts to midi so ez bass can use it, Im not taking advantage of the pro player who played the bass, its ME playing it, im just borrowing their sound. Again, drums, i can use presets and edit, so that Im not playing anything, a real pro drummer played it.

I just dont know why they assume all bass lines are locked in with the kick drum. Yeah, if you go Boom, Boom, Boom Boom, thats two kick drums two snares. But what if your bass is playing 8th notes, over same drum pattern, much different than locking it in.

it just SEEMS to me all this software from many companies are all groove oriented. And they are REALLY designed to make you write your song TO the stuff they provide, and not as much to make their parts TO your song.

Its like im not buying this stuff to help me write songs, im buying it to help me arrange them

the grid technique is interesting, you get the real player playing it, BUT, disadvantage is you have to come up with your own bass line and edit it into the midi. I guess much easier to do it with single notes than chords.

Just gets annoying where they assume drums and bass are one in the same. they are not.