Yellow Tools Majestic is now shipping.
Majestic is designed to be the ultimate bass instrument und contains a whopping 16GB sound library with basses in the following categories:
- American Tube: Typical bass sound played through legendary American preamps.
- British Tube: Typical bass sound played through legendary British preamps.
- DI: Direct Input bass sounds that you can shape yourself, exactly as you would if you had a bass player in your studio.
- Warm: bass sounds fully produced with EQ and compression, designed to fit specific musical styles.
- Plus as special bonus: an over 100 year old upright bass.
You can play Majestic's e-basses with different playing styles - fingered, fingered muted, thumb, slapped, picked and picked muted, and in addition with the playing techniques - long notes, vibrato notes, short notes, ghosts, tappings, hammer-ons, 8th notes, slow slides, fast slides, back slides, fret noises, FX... everything with up to 8 velocity splits per note. To achieve even more authentic e-bass performances, the instruments were recorded in two different scales.
The sound engine features:
- Highly optimized engine for low CPU load.
- Powerful MIDI processing incl. keyswitch option.
- Flexible and intuitive handling of multis, layers and single keygroups.
- Up to 16 audio outputs.
- Simultaneous use of up to 8 different layers.
- Hundreds of stunning single and multi patches using over 45,000 samples.
- Intelligent polyphony management: protection of the natural release of the instruments and also the adjustment of voice usage per layers and notes to save CPU power!
- Basic and pro editor mode.
Majestic is available for Windows 98+ & Mac OS9/X in VST, DX, AU, RTAS and stand alone formats with an RRP of 399 EUR.
A demo version is not yet available but should be ready soon.
Yellow Tools are offering cross-grade options if you already own their Pure E-Basses library. Also, owners of Culture can buy a "Loyalty Edition" version of Majestic for only 299 EUR.
