Best Service has released Chris Hein - Bass, a Kontakt 2 Player based bass guitar sampled virtual instrument. It took more than a year for Chris Hein to produce this collection of six noble bass instruments - a Musicman Stingray electric-bass picked & slapped, a LeFay fretless bass and a unique upright bass with three different sets of strings: steel-strings (the classic jazz sound), nylon-strings (the high-fidelity sound) and gut-strings (the old-school swing sound of the 40s).

All nuances of bass playing techniques are implemented in this sampled virtual instrument. It offers 112 MIDI controllable features including things like repetition-hotkeys, keys-vibrato, fall-control, bridge/center playing, pickup micro-blending, expression-samples, pinch-harmonics, automatic-mode, slide-mode, chord-mode and much more.

The included IK Multimedia Ampeg SVX Uno (virtual bass-amp) adds more sound variations to the natural, basic, bass instruments.

Features:

• 12.7 GB of natural bass sounds.
• Up to 4,089 samples per sound.
• Native Instruments Kontakt 2 Player engine.
• Up to 42 articulations.
• Up to 8 velocity layers.
• 112 MIDI controllable parameters with total recall.
• Repetition hotkeys.
• Key vibrato.
• Four release controls.
• Fall control.
• Bridge-/center playing.
• Pickup micro-blending (upright basses).
• Pinch harmonics (electric basses).
• Expression samples.
• Automatic-, slide- and chord-mode.

Ampeg SVX Uno offers:

• 1 signature Ampeg bass-amp model with pre-amp, EQ, limiter and 9-band graphic EQ.
• 1 cabinet model.
• Microphone modeling.
• 1 stomp effect (chorus).
• High-precision tuner.
• Speed trainer.
• Plug-In and standalone version.
• Qualifies for up- or cross-grades to Ampeg SVX Full version or any other IK Multimedia product.

Chris Hein - Bass has an MSRP of €349 and is available for Windows and Mac OS X in VST, AU, RTAS and Stand-alone formats.