Demos of the upright bass sound fantastic. I'm dubious about something that costs $30. How much detail is there in the sampling of this? How many velocity layers do I get?
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ManyTone Upright Bass
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 157 posts since 2 Aug, 2004 from St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
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- KVRian
- 795 posts since 2 Apr, 2006
I have no idea about the numbers, I'd have to check, but the thing sounds amazing. It's a total of 138 megabytes of samples unpacked.
You really can't go wrong with it. It also contains slides and all other sorts of upright effects.
As with all samplebased instruments, if you want it to sound really realistic you'll have to put some effort in the programming, but it can be done with upright bass.
And as you point out, it's extremely cheap, you really can't go wrong with it.
You really can't go wrong with it. It also contains slides and all other sorts of upright effects.
As with all samplebased instruments, if you want it to sound really realistic you'll have to put some effort in the programming, but it can be done with upright bass.
And as you point out, it's extremely cheap, you really can't go wrong with it.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 157 posts since 2 Aug, 2004 from St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Yeah, you're right... just ordered.
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- KVRAF
- 4143 posts since 7 Sep, 2001 from Melbourne, Australia
I can't believe I haven't ordered this one yet as it's really good to have an upright lying around.
The next time I feel I need an upright in my music, I'll purchase this right away.
Regards
Caleb
The next time I feel I need an upright in my music, I'll purchase this right away.
Regards
Caleb
Happiness is the hidden behind the obvious.
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- KVRist
- 206 posts since 1 Jun, 2008
I use it frequently.
Its got about two octaves worth of body thumps, string noise, slides (up, down and both ways) harmonics and other stuff that can be worked in to add some nice realism.
In regards to acoustic instruments: upright bass, trumpet and sax, I almost always have a real player come in and replace what I demo, but it's nice to have something that sounds good enough to make me smile, without breaking the bank. On the other hand, I've had poor luck with inexpensive trumpet and sax simulations.
If you like upright, this is a very viable option.
Its got about two octaves worth of body thumps, string noise, slides (up, down and both ways) harmonics and other stuff that can be worked in to add some nice realism.
In regards to acoustic instruments: upright bass, trumpet and sax, I almost always have a real player come in and replace what I demo, but it's nice to have something that sounds good enough to make me smile, without breaking the bank. On the other hand, I've had poor luck with inexpensive trumpet and sax simulations.
If you like upright, this is a very viable option.
