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darem · Post by **darem** » Wed Mar 06, 2019 6:56 pm

Title says it all - which one should I choose?

Price is no criteria, I could either upgrade from Trilogy or crossgrade to Modo Bass for about the same price.

Thanks for your help

Echoes in the Attic · Post by **Echoes in the Attic** » Wed Mar 06, 2019 6:58 pm

If you want an Acoustic (standup) bass and a chapman stick and a bunch of synth basses, then Trilian.
For pure electric bass with more realistic articulations, then modo bass. I'd say Trilian has some pretty crazy character basses as well like the hardcore bass. But the articulations are more comprehensive in Modo.

darem · Post by **darem** » Wed Mar 06, 2019 7:07 pm

Thanks. My preference would be e-basses, the acoustic bass in Trilogy is already very nice...

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Wed Mar 06, 2019 7:29 pm

darem wrote: Wed Mar 06, 2019 7:07 pm Thanks. My preference would be e-basses, the acoustic bass in Trilogy is already very nice...

Then MODO Bass hands down. I use it on every rock track I do.

BBFG# · Post by **BBFG#** » Wed Mar 06, 2019 7:57 pm

Trilian.
I find Modo basses weak.

akeia · Post by **akeia** » Wed Mar 06, 2019 10:20 pm

I do not know Trilian but I have Modo and it is amazing. The tweakability is impressive. It is like a session player synthesizer

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Wed Mar 06, 2019 11:33 pm

I know from Trilian and I rarely feel like trotting it out for a track, and haven't in 5 years. I hate the interface.
Some of it sounds real good, but it's not really a sound I want. Last I did it was the Stick instrument and the experience was... too time-consuming.

Funkybot's Evil Twin · Thu Mar 07, 2019 12:00 am

I have a couple of good Fender basses, a few DIs, microphones, can play it reasonably well... Got Modo on sale recently and am really impressed. I've been using it for sketching out bass parts, or just quickly replacing bass parts in midi files to use as backing tracks. It sounds incredibly realistic and is easy to program. Highly recommended. In a mix, I think it would be harder to tell that the bass was fake than it would most high-end acoustic drum sample libraries. In most instances anyway. I did try to play the bassline from Joy Division's Transmission, and couldn't quite get the aggressive picking style down using Modo bass and a keyboard. Didn't try very hard mind you, but that's a stupidly easy part to play on an actual bass.

benjamind · Post by **benjamind** » Thu Mar 07, 2019 1:10 am

If you're only using e-basses then MODO Bass is the only one worth considering. It is super realistic and does not rely on samples.

BezO · Post by **BezO** » Thu Mar 07, 2019 6:34 pm

I have too many synths as is, but was considering which of these to add to the arsenal as creating/tweaking synths for bass is my biggest challenge. I was leaning towards Trilian but got nervous about the CPU load complaints. I'm only on a 2017 Macbook Pro, 4-core i7 2.8 GHz, 16GB. The Arturia 6 Collection & Scarbee basses will hold me down until.

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Thu Mar 07, 2019 10:27 pm

Some it uses up an awful lot of RAM. I remember someone asking about upright bass; I use the VSL which is like all of that, keyswitch city and I looked at the RAM usage of Trilian upright and it was vastly more, like 4x more.

E bass, I use Scarbee Pre- or Jay-bass. It's not the state-of-the-art today, but it works for me. I'm not buying any IKMM. I've had numerous people believe I did it on a bass and recorded it. A lot of concern, such as the above regarding drums is a PEBKAC matter. Drums have to be mixed with a fair amount of knowledge, and the same with electric bass. A lot of this is done for you with Spectrasonics in presets, and I have real respect for the sound design but it isn't fitting my sound and I have just as much if not more work ahead of me, beginning with turning everything off.

johnrwilsonmusic · Post by **johnrwilsonmusic** » Fri Mar 08, 2019 1:35 am

Trilian

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Fri Mar 08, 2019 1:46 am

BezO wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2019 6:34 pm I have too many synths as is, but was considering which of these to add to the arsenal as creating/tweaking synths for bass is my biggest challenge. I was leaning towards Trilian but got nervous about the CPU load complaints. I'm only on a 2017 Macbook Pro, 4-core i7 2.8 GHz, 16GB. The Arturia 6 Collection & Scarbee basses will hold me down until.

It isn't that kind of a hog, you have enough muscle to run it unless you go a little whacky with other worse hogs at the same time. The fretless bass is quite lush, the stand-up bass is musical, it's a good product. Stupid interface IMO.

punkfest2000 · Post by **punkfest2000** » Fri Mar 08, 2019 2:07 am

MODO Bass is very well done

Captain · Post by **Captain** » Fri Mar 08, 2019 6:17 am

I have been using both, Trilian since the early days of Trilogy, and MODO for over a year. Since I’m a tech geek, I generally like the idea of using modeled instruments more than samples. Usually it means more articulations, a sound that is potentially more ”alive”, more tweakability, etc. MODO is really incredible, and usually I always try it first, especially if the bass is more in a leading role in the song.

I still haven’t figured out exactly why (it could be the lowest harmonics & their relations), but sometimes Trilian’s more rock oriented basses still seem to pack a little more oomph and punch, and I end up using Trilian anyway. Also, since MODO can’t do fretless (at least not yet), Trilian is the way to go for that (and I really love its fretless bass).

Trilian or Modo Bass - what do you recommend?