Scarbee J-Slap'n Fingered vs Spectrasonics Trilogy

[Mr.Scarbee]

Try listen to the demos (also try soloed bass tracks - we made these so that users could hear exactly what he gets - no mockups!! We even give you all midi-tracks of stuff too to extract chops from..)

http://www.scarbee.com/demos/jsf_demos.php

Here you can get a good idea of what can be done.
Notice that we have sampled all 4 strings and made them fully available (switching with mod-wheel) so that you can make riffs and chops sound natural. This can be hard with "sweetnote" bass libraries where you have taken notes from each string and put them on keyboard. This means that you only have 1 G3 instead of 3 versions on 3 strings.

We have also included 2 different sweetnote versions in our libs for those who don't care that much about this detail..

The J-Slap demosong 2 (first demo ever) was done in summer 2000 and I send an mp3 to Jim Van Buskirk (CEO of Nemesys) and asked him what he thought about my new bass lib - I had just finished the giga..

He thought it was fake! He couldn't believe it was possible to create such realistic string instrument performance - even with Gigasampler.
Since I had been working on this idea since 1997 and kept it a big secret for so long i was affraid that my idea would be ripped and i remember that I send screenshots and other stuff to "prove" that iwas not fake. I dared not to send the actual programming (gig.file)until 3 months later when we made a contract. Because the idea was so simple - still no-one had "seen" this until the J-Slap was out.

I'm quite proud of the bass demos (haven't done a new in 3 years) but I'm strongly considering to base an album on these demos and have some cool cats to join in..

[Phaedo]

I think it comes down to the differents between doing many things well and one thing superbly. I bought Trilogy, but to be honest the reason I went for Trilogy was simply that Scarbee's libraries weren't available for Kontakt at the time. I reserve the right to buy the other without notice.

Anyway, spectrum's right that there are benefits with the approach, but I still wish I could load Trilogy into Kontakt.

[klagga]

Thanks for all replies!

Mr. Scarbee wrote: "The next bass libraries i will soon create will have no limits at all. These next libraries will be my own personal basses to use on studiowork and albums."

I´m very much looking forward to see those next bass libraries!

Phaedo wrote: "I bought Trilogy, but to be honest the reason I went for Trilogy was simply that Scarbee's libraries weren't available for Kontakt at the time (...) I still wish I could load Trilogy into Kontakt."

Same here. I like Trilogy and have more faith in spectrum/Spectrasonics than most other companies (none mentioned, none forgotten). But I still miss the flexibility of being able to load the samples into my own sampler, I generally don´t like to buy a dedicated sampler for each sample library. (For more on this, see http://www.kvr-vst.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=42084)

[diego]

The next bass libraries i will soon create will have no limits at all. These next libraries will be my own personal basses to use on studiowork and albums.

I hope that these will have some picked basses...
Please put some picked basses !!!

[stevie97]

What about Masjestic from Yellow Tools or Hardcore bass from EastWest? I like them both if you need specific sounds, both have a different engine and offers some varity. I know that most users have Trilogy but I prefer some other sounds too

[Mr.Scarbee]

The next bass libraries i will soon create will have no limits at all. These next libraries will be my own personal basses to use on studiowork and albums.

I hope that these will have some picked basses...
Please put some picked basses !!!

I will make picked basses too and fretless.
I actually started on a fretless 2 years ago - but took a break to do the RSP73!! (thought it would only take me 3 weeks) So this way I ended up doing keyboard libs for a while. After Clav I will spend some time on doing basses again since this is my main instrument.

[Phaedo]

I haven't got Majestic, but I've heard some of Yellow Tools other bass work. Cracking, usable stuff, although...

Anyone else here heard the Kontakt fretless? (which is the Yellow Tools pure e-basses fretless) Gorgeous sound, cracking. Except for the slides and vibrato. I think SoS described it as "having all the charm and precision of a pub singer after closing time".

...I'm presuming they fixed that when they did Majestic.

True stacatto is a fairly cool feature. And Trilogy does do legato very well. Don't know how, but it sounds good...