Midi Bass 3 Beta?

BETA TESTING
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Any idea if/when there will be a Midi Bass 3 version in Beta?

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Regarding MIDI bass, I have an alternative option for you if you want to consider itā€¦and if you canā€¦

buy a set of Piccolo Bass Strings like these: EXL280 Nickel Wound Piccolo | Bass Guitar Strings | D'Addario

Now your Bass will ā€˜ā€˜Trackā€™ā€™ as good as a Guitar when you use MIDI guitar v2 or v3 beta.

Have a good Weekend

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I donā€™t play long scale basses anymore, so itā€™s too bad they donā€™t make a short scale piccolo set. Or extra short. They would make an interesting pairing with my 27" Valiant Mini Bass.

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I did this exact thing (suggested in another thread) with these strings on a Fender Mustang short scale bass and it works great. Would love to find a set of flat wounds in piccolo sizes.

Gil

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Hmm. I could try them in my headless Ibanez EHB1000S, where you just clamp off the string above the nut.

EDIT: Found them in stock at Thomann.fr for 19,30 ā‚¬. Iā€™ll wait until I have other stuff to buy totaling more than 75 ā‚¬, so I donā€™t have to pay 6 ā‚¬ for shipping. Thatā€™d be almost 30% the cost of the strings. Amazon France has them with ā€œfreeā€ Prime shipping for 26,09 ā‚¬. Riiiiiiight. :crazy_face:

Dā€™Addario EXL280 Piccolo Bass Strings

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Can strings be too long? Iā€™ve never experienced that. Just be careful not ending up saying:
ā€œIā€™ve cut the strings five times and theyā€™re still too short!ā€

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The thing I would worry about using long scale strings (round or flat wound) on a short scale is having them unwind or having the winding loosen because they were cut on the playable part of the string. Iā€™m thinking that might not be a problem on a headless shorty when using the long scale piccolo strings because of the way the strings are clamped, rather than wound around a tuning machine. On my 27" Valiant Mini Bass, they used regular short scale strings because they hadnā€™t had custom length strings made for them yet. They used shrink wrap on the E string (the one cut shortest) to guard against unravelling. I ordered a custom length set of Pyramid Gold flats for it, so no worries now.

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I tried using guitar strings on an old bass years ago to make it a piccolo. They were long enough for a full 34" scale and it worked just fine. A shorter length scal bass should be even easier.

Same thing when I modified an old Jazz bass to make it an 8-string. Octaves were guitar strings.

Bonus: guitar strings are WAY cheaper.

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Good idea! And Iā€™ve got about 10 spare sets of guitar strings in a drawer somewhere. :+1: