{"id":7539,"date":"2015-07-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=7539"},"modified":"2015-07-22T11:25:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T16:25:45","slug":"the-robots-havent-taken-over-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/the-robots-havent-taken-over-yet.html","title":{"rendered":"The robots haven&#8217;t taken over. Yet."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been many attempts over the years to mechanize music that is ordinarily played by humans, and the bass guitar is no exception as you&#8217;ll see in the video below.<\/p>\n<p>Before showing the robot bass playing, here&#8217;s a more recent video an acoustic guitar being played using robots:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cXgB3lIvPHI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, yes you can in fact get robots to strum a stringed instrument. And the technology has come along far enough that you can even do it with systems built with plastic LEGO bricks.<\/p>\n<p>Now as for the robots playing bass, there is no other way to describe the sound than &#8220;sounds like a robot or a synthesizer making the sound.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It certainly <em>looks cool<\/em>, no question about that:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/epUQrzl6WRQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but when you break it down to the question of &#8220;How does it sound?&#8221;, well&#8230; still a robot and not a human.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5UYMnzXQEtw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It is still going to be a while yet before robots can accurately reproduce a human playing a bass guitar. Not only in playing but also reproducing the styles. Fingerstyle, picking, slap-pop, fretless, etc. Robots still haven&#8217;t been able to quite master that stuff just yet. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been many attempts over the years to mechanize music that is ordinarily played by humans, and the bass guitar is no exception as you&#8217;ll see in the video below. Before showing the robot bass playing, here&#8217;s a more recent video an acoustic guitar being played using robots: As you can see, yes you &#8230; <a title=\"The robots haven&#8217;t taken over. Yet.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/the-robots-havent-taken-over-yet.html\" aria-label=\"More on The robots haven&#8217;t taken over. Yet.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}