Bass Guitar Vst Plugin

[Favio Cassidy]

Itwould depend on what kind of sounds you want, for what kind of music and what kind of functionality, and also what you already have. Are you looking for a software close to playing a real bassguitar, where you can simulate for example string vibrato, pull offs and hammer ons and slides/glissando, or are you satisfied with a plectrum down stroke? Do you want to have different playing styles on key switching or velocity? Or use multipe instances for each style. There are a zillion basses out there.

The Ric bass from Native Instruments is very good (and free tutorial on MACProVideo), and it works in the free Kontakt player - if you want to get into the Kontakt world and, in my opinion, close enough, in most cases, to a real bass.

Trillian is huge and contains more than just guitars. A lot of bass synths for example. The chapmanstick is very good in trillian. Best I have heard. Trillian is very CPU heavy, think they must have sampled every millimeter of those basses. Moving into spectrasonics world is something you will not regret, It is however very expencive and they never have sales. I would suggest you rather buy the brother Omnisphere. That too has some pretty nasty bass guitar sounds avialable and the Omnisphere world is much greater than Trillian - but that would be on more than bass though.

When it comes to bass guitars I think Ample sound has some of the best sounds and the best gui and best functionality if you are not a bass player and if you are not a wizard on the kleyboard. They have bass grooves that you can use out of the box or tweak. Resonably priced and sales a couple of times a year.

I also like the sounds in the bases of Acoustic Samples, especially the fretless bass. You need the UVI engine to run it but that too is free. This is the cheapest well sounding bass I have found. Sales at least once a year.

However if you are on a PC and 32 bit, or MAC no higher than snow leopard (so it still has rosetta) the one I would recommend is Broomstic bass. Now an obsolete product, but great sounding, great GUI and a lot of grooves (even got a jam along drum set). I think you still can get hold of copies. But remember it IS obsolete. I like that software so much that I have a separate old computer running it, vst linked to my main mac. Some of the sounds have never been surpassed in my opinion. Downside is that it does not contain all finger movements on the fretboard.

Yeah in the last few years this has become my go-to first choice for electric bass. But all the Scarbee basses are easy to get a good convincing sound from. I think a lot of it is the fretboard fingering accurately mimics how a person would play it.

Firstly, I hope this is the right forum section, if not let me know. I have a couple of tracks with bass parts on them, I usually use my Juno as a MIDI controller to add bass but this track was written on a guitar and the bass part is tricky to do on a keyboard. Does anyone know a decent VST plugin similar to my guitar plugins but with a good bass sound?

In terms of bass VST instruments, I really like IK Multimedia's MODO bass. It uses modeling rather than sampling, so it can be quite expressive and also offers a number of bass instrument sounds (Ric, P-Bass, Hofner, etc.). It's $299, but if you have the bucks, I think it's well worth it.

A cheaper, sample-based alternative is to use the TX16Wx free sampler and bass samples. The TX16Wx is full-featured, and certainly, the price is right I don't know what sample packs are available for it, other than the 3-bass pack of sampled Gibson basses I originally did for Rapture, and ported over to the TX16Wx. However. the pack costs $40, so you might want to look around and see if there are any free bass sounds for the TX16Wx.

I have used the Ample P Bass lite free VST on all my backing tracks for a few years now. Only issue is it is a 4 string bass so no going below low E. When I need that I just use SI bass on those notes using a separate midi track

I find it very accurate and it sits in the mix perfectly. I even fooled my self once thinking it was my real bass.

I play all my parts on my Yamaha bass and drag them to a midi track then use that to trigger PBass lite

During the year, they run 40% and sometimes 50% discounts on anything, especially come Black Friday, and Christmas time. They also have a signup for some type of group interest on their facebook page, and sometime through their own website, where if they meet a certain number of interested people, they will run the sale at a discount.

So, just to bring it to your attention.

I have gotten decent results with the SI Bass Guitar, too. It does take tweaking in the plug in itself, or I have found the bass sound can take over a mix. Usually that has meant dialing off some bass and dialing up some mids, treble.

I second MODO bass. I also got it on sale for $50. The $50 version only includes 2 basses and limited pickup options, but I find that to be sufficient for my needs. There's all sorts of articulation options, from picking style, EQ, string style etc.

Okay, I downloaded ample bass P lite. Have to say Sounds ok especially for free! To those with patience here's my question; it works ok using the mouse, I get the bass notes on to the track. But my guitar wont trigger it. Now often I use a plug in like TH-U for my rock guitar sounds all works fine, I click on the + sign and add the effect from the VST drop down menu. Simples.

But not this. I've messed around for a long time trying various things but I reckon this is filed under the head slap Duh! category. Can someone save me an hour or two and tell me why it isn't working? ( To those of a short fuse disposition just make a cup of tea and count to 10! I even try my own patience with questions like this)

Ample Sounds are meant to be triggered by a hardware MIDI keyboard. They are good at being triggered by MIDI in a track too. How you get that MIDI into a track is up to you. I have more than one hardware MIDI instrument. All of which can trigger an Ample Sound instrument. If you have a MIDI guitar it should work too.

Okay, I downloaded ample bass P lite. Have to say Sounds ok especially for free! To those with patience here's my question; it works ok using the mouse, I get the bass notes on to the track. But my guitar wont trigger it.

Play the bass part on guitar, use Melodyne to convert the guitar part into MIDI (i.e., drag into MIDI track), clean up the data as needed, drop the notes down an octave, and trigger your bass instrument of choice.

Not sure if this is a lack of software or music knowledge (probably both). I started using a DAW (Cakewalk) and bought a very basic midi keyboard (Akai mini) to start making some very simple music. I am trying to copy bass guitar tabs or to "play" them with the bass plugin in the DAW. I can play any note with the mouse, and as the keyboard is small I understand not all keys can be mapped to the strings as on my keyboard there are not enough keys. But how to chose which notes are played when a given key is pressed? Pictures to illustrate this:

In the first picture, you have clicked the 1st fret of the 1st string, and in the second picture you've clicked the 11th fret of the 3rd string. On a real bass guitar, these produce the same fundamental pitch, but a slightly different tone. You could also have played, for example, the 6th fret of the 2nd string. Thinner strings usually produce a slightly brighter sound than the thicker ones.

I suppose that the bass plugin (virtual instrument) in your DAW has separately recorded "samples" from each string, even for the same pitch, and it is possible for the user to explicitly specify the desired string by clicking on the virtual fretboard. Because these different places on the fretboard trigger a different sample (recording) from a different string, you hear a slightly different sound. From a musical point of view, all of the G#2 notes perform essentially the same musical function. If you just want to reproduce a song, you can use any G#2 and it will do the job. In the tab you're reading, they have had to choose one string and fret combination out of the many alternatives. Maybe it's a transcription of someone's performance, or just one way to play that song on a bass.

If your song needs a G#2 note, and you have a five-string bass, you could play it with any of the shown fretboard positions. Which of the five positions to use, is usually up to what is the most comfortable thing for you to play at that part of the song. Or if you want the tone of a particular string, then you use that string.

The tablature ("tab") notation that you're trying to copy into the computer, reflects the same difference. In tab, you have all five strings, and all of them can play G#2, but the corresponding staff notation has ony one place for all of the notes. In the example below, the Guitar Pro application has placed two staff notes (the thick ovals ) on the same pitch position, even though there should be five: (I don't even know how more than two simultanous notes of the same pitch would be shown on the same staff)

Depending on the DAW and the specific bass plugin or sample library, it may be possible to specify each string separately with for example key switches, MIDI Control Change messages, MIDI Program Change messages or by using separate MIDI channels. Key switches mean that some of the lowest notes (or sometimes the highest notes) of the MIDI note range are special control keys, which don't play sounds but are used to specifying various control instructions to a sampler or virtual instrument. If and how this is possible in the Cakewalk bass plugin, you need to consult the user manual or Cakewalk's support.

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