Bass Guitar Slide

That's one way to do it. Another way might be to use the portamento switch. Set the porto speed to a suitable amound and turn it on when you need the slide and off for other notes.

If I was using a DAW I'd probably do it with the bender and automate via midi. That way I could change the way it bends to make it realistic.

If I was doing it live I might use the bender but bending smoothly and convincingly over 1 octave by hand might be dificult. I've found that the FantomX7 joystick isn't good for long slow pitch changes.

Hope this helps...

Mike.

I think there are some great bass slide sounds on the Fantom already. I am not in front of my keyboard right now but I believe there are some already there but they are mapped to different sections of the keyboard. This way when you want the slide you hit the note higher up the keyboard and it plays that lower note with that bass effect. There are other bass effects as well already in the wave ROM. Try seeing if those patches work for you.

You could also get more adventurous and set up your own patch and set it up so the different effects are triggered at different velocity levels. This way when you hit harder or perhaps softly then the bass octave slide would be triggered. I prefer triggering effects this way so I don't need my other hand to trigger the effect.