4Front Bass Module

I first acquired this when I was starting out, having bought Cubasis and suddenly realised that I needed a whole load of extra instruments to make tracks with. I downloaded this because it was free, and I'm really glad I did.


* The GUI is immaterial, as there are no knobs and buttons. As it is, its simple and elegant.


** 4Front bass is a mixture of sampled and modelled sounds, and the notes effectively play pretty much evenly across the whole of your keyboard. They're a just a bit thin at the 'top of the neck', but even expensive samples are too, I've found. Overall the sound is good and fat, with a warm, slightly rubbery quality. There is some string excitation (also curiously rubbery), that sounds like someone administering a Chinese burn with washing-up gloves on.

I used it a lot for a while, then went to actual samples played through Kontakt, but I keep coming back to this from time to time, as it has a lot of qualities to it that make it both practical and enjoyable.

*** It sounds alot like a bass guitar!

**** You'd only need docs for this if you'd never recorded music on a computer before.

***** Just the one preset.

****** Customer support is, by all accounts, pretty good, though you won't need it on this.

******* Given that its free, it can't fail to be value for money, but even if it wasn't it would still be worth paying for.

******** Very low cpu load and absolutely no stability problems for me in two years of use!

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