Upright bass?

[Nikolas]

Hi everyone!

I'm in (fast) need of an upright bass. Sample based or not, don't care as long as the sound is good.

Also because I'm in a hurry I could use a download option. I'm with broadband so don't have any problem in downloading Gbs...

I'm looking for a jazz sound (as you might've guessed).

As for the price... dunno relaly, but wouldn't want to spend a lot... after all I'm looking for a SINGLE bass sound really... (everything esle will come as a bonus )

Any ideas on where can I get such a thing?

Any pointers? Any companies you know? My knowledge is kinda limited really, os Chris Heims and a couple of more that I know do not have what I'm looking for. But there must be something.

Linkys please?

Many thanks

Nikolas

[Blank_Frank]

The echochamber free samples are pretty good; EXS format, but the WAV files are included, so you can build-your-own if needed.

Here: http://www.echochamber.ch/exs24/exs242.html

[bluedad]

there's a nice bass in plugsoundfree

[bluedad]

hmm, I can't seem to find the free version on their site anymore...damn, and I wanted to reinstall it.

[cimoc]

Yeah, the plugsoundfree upright bass sounded good... but it was only 2 octaves, and above C3 there was a mbira or something, so not too good for jazz.

Sometimes I layer that with a patch from Sampletank and one from Kontakt. Though I am not very happy with it, it certainly won't do for solo.

[justjazz]

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[egarrard]

There's always Trilogy.

[Nikolas]

Hmmm... trilogy huh? At 350$? It is a bit out of my budget at the moment, but thanks for the recomendation... I never thought of that.

I did download the echochamber ones and the wav files sound ok (the B1 is corrupted a bit to the end and had to edit it though...), With CDXtract I could make it to any sampler I want...

Other than that I think that I will try them echochamber ones and wait for Greg Schlaepfer to do his job (which I know personally that is a brilliant one...).

Thank you for your help, and of course any other ideas are most welcome. Since the echochamber isfree I do still have time to research a little more (while trying out them on Cubase as we speak...)

Thanks again.

[Blank_Frank]

I was quite tempted by Part 3 of Abstrakt: Bass by Soniccouture (8 basses for £30, including an upright). Can anyone recommend it?

Link: http://www.soniccouture.com/pages/bass-downloads.htm

[AKJ]

there is one coming from www.manytone.com

it will be quite good and availbale in different formats (I did the VSampler programming)
expect release within the next days

[Nikolas]

Thanks

As I said, I trust blindfolded Greg for his bass playing and sampling capabilities and support him 100%. I'm ok with echochamber at the moment for trying out things and see how far I can go with the pitch bend as a tool for vibrato (:S pretty difficult but it's fun when you have time... I don't )

Thank you. Awaiting impatiently really

[AKJ]

for the vsampler version aftertouch controls zone volume and this can be easily used for nice vibrato.

[timobrien]

The free version of Sampletank has an upright bass that isn't too bad.

[jeffn1]

Manyguitar has basses. I think someone at k-v-r is selling theirs for $50.00.

jeffn1

[Fonkah]

There's always Trilogy.

No doubt, the Upright mic'd with a U47 samples are amazing....you get almost every nuance of the upright sound, triggered appropriately by controller velocity, good stuff.
Even though it may be a bit out of your budget, Spectrasonics products are wayyy UNDERpriced...you get ridiculously good sounds/tools for the little bit they charge for them...alot of people don't truly understand what they're plugs are really capable of.

Good luck.