To make a song as a bedroom guitarist you need someone to play the other instruments, you know the ones us guitarists don’t care so much about: bass and drums. For drums there are excellent VST plugs, foremost the Swedish Drumkit from Hell (which I use myself) and it’s big brother Superior Drummer.
Steinberg, the company behind the industry plugin standard VST has released a pretty basic bass VST for free, probably because its a couple of years since it was updated. This is the only plugin I have tested. Is it any good? Hard to say, but it is actually mentioned quite often on forums as a good free alternative. It has a few settings that affect its sound – tone, pickup placement and plectrum position. In my ears it sounds quite decent and you don’t hear much of the bass in metal anyway (you mostly notice something is missing if you take it out) :-D.
A good number of professional guitarists who use virtual instruments seem to have chosen Trilian made by Spectrasonics. I haven’t tried this bass vst myself, but to me it seems very reasonably priced at €229 considering what it delivers according to the official demo videos. It has really cool effects like translating velocity on a midi keyboard into legato, staccato, slides and other bass playing styles.
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Cakewalk, who are probably best known for their DAW Sonar, have a package of four VST instruments for the reasonable price of €49, 99. You get a drum kit (probably not really comparable to the Toontrack VSTs mentioned above), an electric piano, strings and of course an electric bass vst. Included besides the instruments are a number of premade rhythms and tracks you can drag and drop into your song (like the grooves in Drumkit From Hell). The package as a whole has received rather mixed reviews, but it’s mainly the drums and the electric piano that are mentioned in bad terms while the bass and the strings get positive opinions. At 50 euros I think the bass alone is worth the price, so I’m inclined to test it. Maybe there will be a review here later on. Thanks to Chris at MetalGuitarist for this interesting find!
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On the OSIRIS GUITAR FB page and Google+ page I share links and tidbits that don't quite make it into the blog.With its primarily monophonic voicing and uncomplicated tone making it comparatively straightforward to recreate in software, the electric bass is well represented in the virtual instrument market. Here, we’ve gathered together half a dozen top tier plugins tuned up to help you realise your ‘live’ bottom-end ambitions, several of them providing the bassist as well as the bass.
Partnering with the equally sublime EZdrummer 2, the recently-released other half of Toontrack’s virtual rhythm section makes blasting out convincing b-lines almost effortless. You only get two multisampled bass guitars – a Fender Jazz (EZbass Vintage) and an Alembic (EZbass Modern) – but they’re both crackers, coaxing an impressive level of detail out of their numerous articulations (including Polyphonic Legato and Slide), and wrangled into a solid menu of effects-processed presets. And the first of, no doubt, many EBX add-ons (Classic Rock) is already available when you get hungry for more. You don’t even need to leave the plugin (or standalone app) to program the thing, either, as an incredibly powerful sequencer is built in.
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Taking a very different approach to the other five instruments in our list, IK Multimedia’’s innovative offering emulates 14 bona fide classic electric bass guitars (Fender Precision and Jazz, MusicMan Stingray, Gibson EB-0, Hofner Violin et al) without a sample in sight, instead deploying physical modelling synthesis to facilitate unrivalled tweakability. Modo Bass lets you get down and dirty with everything from string properties (Type, Gauge, Age) and noise (Detach and Slide), to pickup model and position, and stroke direction; and includes a full-on amp and stompbox effects section drawing on IK’s highly regarded AmpliTube technology. Amazingly realistic.
Eric Persing’s 34GB low-end leviathan is stuffed with deeply multisampled instruments – almost 1500 all told. Although the hundreds of synths by Moog, Novation, Roland, Korg, Yamaha and others, and a truly stunning upright acoustic involving over 21, 000 samples and four separate mic channels, aren’t to be sniffed at, the main event is a huge range of electric bass guitars, taking in four-, five-, six- and eight-string models, fretlesses and even a Chapman Stick. Every patch comprises all the articulations you’re likely to need, and comprehensive onboard editing and effects processing free your sonic imagination.
One of four libraries for their sample-based Virtual Bassist 2.1 plugin, UJAM’s Dandy puts a “world class vintage bass guitar and player” at your fingertips, complete with amps, EQ, dynamics shaping and effects. Although you can play and sequence it manually, of course, a large part of Dandy’s appeal is Virtual Bassist 2’s Player Mode, which provides 990 phrases in 30 styles for chaining into complete performances via a slick and intuitive GUI.
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Crafting electric basslines just doesn’t get any easier than this, and Dandy’s smooth, warm flat-wound sound is a treat for the ears.
While most of our six selected virtual basses feature slapping alongside their fingered and picked playing techniques, Waves’ sample-based plugin/standalone instrument is entirely dedicated to the subject. Bass Slapper’s 3700+ samples (4.9GB losslessly compressed) serve up a wealth of slaps, pops, hammers, pulls, strums, harmonics, slides and more, with round robins keeping everything sounding natural from note to note; and the interface makes lifelike performance and transformative effects processing a breeze.
Guitar sample library specialists Ample Sound have a number of electric basses in their catalogue, but our favourite is this Fender Precision emulation, weighing in at 3.6GB and featuring 12 keyswitching articulations. The sampled bass itself sounds fantastic, with adjustable buzz and stereo DI, but it’s the supplementary systems and editors that make Ample Bass P such a formidable low-frequency weapon, from the Riffer sequencer and multi-format tab player, to the effects and amp simulations.
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There’s a free cut-down version – Ample Bass P Lite – available for download, too, which lets you play around with four articulations and, for some, might even be enough to get the job done on its own.
Ronan Macdonald is a music and technology journalist of over 30 years’ experience. Away from the day job, Ronan is a keen producer and drummer, with a particular passion for 90s hip-hop, jungle, breakbeat and jazz, a hard drive full of unfinished projects and a plugins folder that one day he honestly will get round to tidying up. He’s also the dep percussionist for seminal 80s/90s Italo-house outfit Black Box.
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Hot on the heels of Bornemark's Broomstick Bass, which I reviewed in these pages a few months back (see SOS May 2005), comes Virtual Bassist — Steinberg's take on the bass player for a software-based band. Virtual Bassist (or VB) is compatible with any VST, DXi and AU host, and a stand-alone version can be used with Rewire. Virtual Bassist will work under either Windows XP or Mac OS X 10.3.3 or higher, but you'll need a PC with at least an 800MHz Pentium III processor running Windows XP, or an 600MHz G3 Mac running at least Mac OS 10.3. Whichever platform you go for, you'll need at least 512MB of RAM, 850MB of free hard disk space, a DVD drive for installation, and a VST- or AU-compatible host (the latter, obviously, only applies to Mac users).
As with Broomstick Bass, Virtual Bassist offers a selection of musical styles (32 are provided in the initial release). Each Style has a suitable preset bass sound associated with it and offers a selection of phrases or riffs. VB refers to these phrases as 'Parts' and as many as 18 are provided for each style. These respond to either a root note input or a chord and any melodic/riff-based Parts are automatically adjusted to fit the chosen
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