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Posted: Tue May 14, 2002 11:34 pm
by Unitar
Hi everyone! I'm looking for a device that can produce a natural bass sound. Any tips? I'm sequencing the bass tracks with Cakewalk and I've been using Celmo's Goofy bass synth for playback. It's great but doesn't work for complex bass riffs with wide note range. I need something with the real instruments charisma. Help!
Posted: Wed May 15, 2002 12:58 am
by Eurocide
If you want an imitation of real sounding basses you have to use good samples.
I can recommend "AKAI Will Lee's Bass Library".
A variety of multisampled acoustic and electric basses.
It worked very fine on a rock production.
But attention, they don't sound too fat in the first place. A bit of tweaking is needed.
Posted: Wed May 15, 2002 1:23 am
by Spirit
Real bass will either be the real thing or a sampler. Otherwise in the synth bass realm I like Celmo's other synths, the BassmannIII, Deep Blue or Supreme. The Lightwave can do reasonably "real" basses, and for synth bass the Prisma is a good choice. For dirty bass try the free DubSub or DubSubII.
Posted: Wed May 15, 2002 2:05 am
by ronaldmeij
Go for marcus miller bass legends.
verry nice quality and great collection of nice bass sounds
Posted: Wed May 15, 2002 5:12 am
by sandrob
agree!
bass legends and will lee!
Posted: Wed May 15, 2002 5:43 am
by calippo
I like the SOUNDSCAN Volume 6: Electric & Acoustic Bass. Very Cheap (38 Euros) and excellent upright basses.
http://www.usbsounds.com/usb/exec/editor?editID=SS
Posted: Wed May 15, 2002 7:06 am
by castol
http://www.creamware.de/en/products/noa ... uments.asp
a demo (some say sorry) of the noah and the bass models.
http://trio.harmony-central.com/ramgen/ ... 02/Noah.rm
not availible yet, is assumed shortly following this that card users will have access to these plug-ins.
Posted: Wed May 15, 2002 7:09 am
by Spirit
There are some very nice bass samples with NI's new sampler, Kontakt
Posted: Wed May 15, 2002 7:54 am
by wayne
Send me a chart and i'll play 'em 4 ya
Posted: Thu May 16, 2002 11:10 pm
by Unitar
Thanks for all the info but I'm still not getting anywhere!
I'm gonna use a real bass for the final production but when writing songs I use midi sequencing and I need something that would sound close to the real thing. All the synths I have tried so far sound good on only a very limited note range. Am I missing something? I have never used a sampler so can anyone give an example on how to setup a nice free one to play back my bass midi tracks? I think I have the STS3000 but never tried it.
Posted: Fri May 17, 2002 3:20 pm
by marcuspocus
Well, try it, it's a very good sampler to start with, and more.