Product Reviews by KVR Members

Still fun.

On the topic of "Can Band in a Box play jazz harmony?"....? The computer says "no".

http://youtu.be/dNdrtjwdlik

One of the very best Acoustic basses around. Has some rough edges in the velocity department. You'll find yourself wanting to tweak it a lot. But the basic sound is so wonderfully detailed and precise, yet warm and creamy and with a dark wooden undertone that just makes you want to play jazz.

I have very mixed experiences with other Fluffy libraries: never bad, but never really amazing... except, this bass is top notch. Only a select few basses even come close.

I just hoped library-makers would build on their libraries. Like, a v2 after a few years. Or a reworking of the sample pool. But, this is not for Fluffy Audio alone. How nice would it be to have a v2 of the Vintage D piano, a v2 of Native's Hammond organ, v2 of Alicia's keys...

I have this library for more than 2 years already and it's one of my all time favourite acoustic basses.
The bass is so good, that it takes using another library to appreciate just how good it is.
Sounds so close to the real thing and is so detailed and warm. Super bass for serious jazz lovers. Certainly an underestimated library.

I let myself go and bought yet another Upright bass library. Did I need it? No. Did I want it? Yeah.

when I first tried it with MIDI files I was confronted with unwanted slaps, slides, palm knocks. Thing is, the library plays two octaves above some Upright bass libraries, like Artvista Bass. After correcting the MIDI settings (not in Kontakt, cause that don't work as expected, but in my DAW) this opened up a wonderfully detailed and "dirty" bass. It sounds sooo wonderfully warm and aggressive at the same time.

Another minor thing is that I found the velocity somewhat too compressed. Since you can easily alter that inside Kontakt without any scripting, it doesn't bother me too much.

I think the maker mentions all the musical genres this bass could accommodate and goes to great lengths to avoid the jazz-word, for jazz music this is a super bass. Especially for small band settings. It's not a discrete, electric bass-like Double Bass, but a whispering, growling, singing, humming and sometimes shouting gentle beast of a bass.

Maybe I am naive, but, the idea that the library was recorded through the hands of a real musician, explains, imo, the surprising and exciting richness and variety of the sounds. Subtle changes in playing position, in pressure on the fret(less)board, in velocity, in the way the fingers play the strings...

5 stars is never merited, there are flaws in every library, but this is a wonderful surprise goodie that shoudn't go unnoticed.