Kontakt Double Bass

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Uprightis a beautifully recorded double bass instrument that comes packed with a multi-sample palette of articulations including plucked and traditional bow. In addition, Upright includes a number of unique synthetically enhanced instruments for electronic music or sound design applications.

Recorded with meticulous precision, Upright has been programmed for advanced multi-mic flexibility. Users can blend room modes and microphone gain to custom tailor the sound of the instrument. Upright comes packed with a collection of Ableton Live Clips and Apple Loops for Kontakt and Logic.

To spare any fingers from heavy physical abuse, the VSL Synchron Upright Bass library brings the best tones, all the articulations, and even some specific noises right into your track.

This Kontakt library is intended to optimize any productions that require a double bass. Developed to be intuitive and easy to use, the Upright Bass from Vienna Symphonic Library is a neat option with undeniable sound quality and many opportunities to tweak a very natural playing of this delicate instrument without any demanding physical effort.

ABU employs additional microphones to capture every element of the upright bass, including the neck, body, and ambiance and gives two stereo and two mono options on the mixing interface.

As expected, Ample Bass Upright III delivers what it promises with plenty of configurations and quality. Ample Sound has a few plugin options that showcase their abilities to reproduce with great precision iconic acoustic instruments in a good-looking sample library.

The special attention to details such as a sliding movement on a fretless scale and the exquisite algorithm that creates unique riffs are nice to assist every modern producer in finding the best low-end thump for any kind of track.

A precisely recorded acoustic double bass, played with soul and feel, is implanted in this library to add realism, behavior, and the feeling of a knowledgeable player right into your tracks. Smooth, graceful, with a smidgeon of noise thrown in for good measure, can do wonders to make your production stand out from the rest.

Studio One users running version 4.6.2 or later will get an exclusive PreSonus chord and key track functionality with the new Virtual Bassist 2.1 release. The new chord track feature automatically follows the chords and instantly alters the MIDI notes for you, so you can focus on your best ideas and waste no more time.

The extremely high level of quality regarding the recording process brings PREPARATO Double Bass to the table with the most out-of-the-box tools to help you tweak your samples to infinity and beyond.

Recorded with basically the same equipment used in the previous library on this list, Classica Double Bass delivers the same richness, variety, and easy usage as its twin brother, all in a very elegant user interface and straightforward controls.

A more straightforward version of the previous library in this list, Classica Double Bass, might be more appealing to producers searching for the perfect classic double bass library, quite literary.

The Trilian Total Bass Module combines several distinct types of bass into one incredible-sounding virtual instrument, thanks to its extensive design. It has long been regarded as one of the most versatile bass virtual instruments available, and it is now established as a reliable tool for your basslines.

SOLO STRINGS UNTAMED is a natural, raw, and expressive collection of solo string instruments. All of them were recorded in improvisational performances, so you can have a natural feel by pressing the keys harder or softer on your MIDI controller. From delicate and sensitive murmurs to fervent and furious yells, they got you covered.

Storms uses all of the improvisations to mix from a single performance to twelve on every note you play. Each of the improvisation layers is applied one by one as the value of your mod wheel increases.

Recording took place at Grace Design Studios in Lyons, Colorado. Grace Design produces some of the best microphone preamps and recording equipment on the market today, so, naturally, such delicate recordings should occur there.

High-performance algorithms are included in the plugin versions, which have been increasing with each new virtual instrument published by Adam Monroe Music. The buffering method, for example, is double-buffered and multithreaded, ensuring that buffering performance is high even on slower systems and at lower latencies.

This might have the simplest of all designs previously shown, but it comes for a good reason. If you have a slower machine that cannot handle the larger libraries mentioned earlier, this might be the best choice for you.

Because of its proximity to similar classical instruments, the double bass can also be played with the assistance of a bow, especially because its strings are flat-wound and provide a good resonance. Other than being used in classical music, the double bass can be found in genres such as jazz, country, and blues.

Eduardo Cardoso is a musician and audio producer based in So Paulo, Brazil. He studied both music production and theory in college and has successfully launched his career as a solo artist in 2021. With over 10 years of experience with the music business, he currently acts as a session musician, music producer, audio editor, and content creator. Read more..

Alberto Moreno Guier is the bassist behind the tortured, obscure sounds in OBLIQUE II. His mastery of the double bass allowed us to capture powerful performances within a massive dynamic range, perfect for psychological thrillers and terrifying horror sequences.

The piccolo suffers from the same problem, but in the other direction (notated one octave below where it should be, so you have to move it up an octave after note entry). The Dorico team is aware of these problems and will hopefully fix them soon.

Have there been any developments/corrections in this area? I am working (Dorico version 2.2.10.1256*) in concert pitch display, transcribing a piano score. Notes copied from the 'cello stave to the double bass stave look the same, correctly for the display selection. However, when you click on them they sound the octave lower, so the play back is treating the part as a transposing one. If I change to transposed display, the clarinet stave changes correctly, but the double bass stave remains the same.

I played those four notes in a row with almost no silence in between them and then switched to the next note.

Once done recording I cut the samples and applied a short fade at the end of each note/round robin.

What if I could create some sort of script that only perform those release notes after a key had been held for a second or so, ignoring those faster notes.

On to the kip-reference pdf and the NI scripting forum.

The solution was a function called ENGINE_UPTIME combined with a variable.

Please do check it out in the script tab of the instrument, I know very little about Kontakt scripting but is happy to answer any question that may arise using my instrument.

To that very long and detailed description, I will just add that I love the sound. It is sampled really well with just a small hint of white noise, but it is also dynamic amd responsive. Though I am not physically familiar with the double bass, I am not sure about the release trigger sound. I was expecting more of a string-mute sound, which is often a little more metallic due to the nature of the strings. This one sounds more like a piano key release trigger, but I honestly might be wrong. Luckily you can reduce it via the minimal GUI, which is honestly great! I can't think of anything else that needs to be included in just a pizzicato patch. Good job!

Although i dont really know where i would use this instrument personally i still think its a really great library. Theres really nice dynamics and round robins which is always appreciated in free libraries for obvious reasons. The GUI is really nice and offers good controllability, even control over the release triggers. The sound itself i find has an occasional kind of clicky attack but for the most part its warm, smooth and would be perfect for jazz, lofi or any other way you can think of getting creative with it. The dynamics really let you perform with emotion

If you need a bass that's sound natural, not electric and that doesn't take all the intention, it's your perfect weapon. Tono is round but with the perfect amount of character to make your song sounding acoustic

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This library also comes with a large set of original recordings of double bass, cello, viola and violin (270+ 96 kHz, 24 bit, .wav). These sounds have been treated with a very transparent process of EQ and de-noising and you can use them as construction elements to create your own sound effects.

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