Upright bass vst ?

[mark skinner]

Does anyone know of a free upright bass instrument ? I looked thru the free instrument thread but couldn't find anything.  I'm using TTS and Sound Center but not satisfied . Thanks ...   mark

[Sidney Earl Goodroe]

There is a very nice upright in the free library for the free Kontakt Player! 

[jerrydf]

Corebass Pear from Orange Tree Samples - https://www.orangetreesamples.com/products/corebass-pear

- needs full Kontakt - a very nice warm bass with some good variations - come with a variety of indtruments for tomes and reactions - jazz, pop, rockabilly, etc.

 

Straight Ahead Upright from Big Fish - https://www.bigfishaudio.com/Straight-Ahead-Bass

- needs full Kontakt - various instruments with med-fast, slow-med, eight-staccato, muted, etc.  Each is controlled with body, neck and direct sound pick-up directivities. Again, warm and quite controllable

 

If you want a real ricky-jazz-rockabilly string response, Bolder's Roots Upright Bass (RUB) is your man. https://www.boldersounds.com/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&cPath=3_18&products_id=138

- again, needs full Kontakt.  Again, highly controllable with a good range of effects.  Great fun to play.

 

If you have Komplete, the Cuba collection includes a roomy-atmospheric bass

Xperimenta have great very low price instruments and an upright bass used to be one of them, but it doesn't seem to be there at the moment.

I have all of these and can recommend all of them. It depends if you want the bass up front andproviding a thumpy rhythm (go for Bolder's RUB).  For a more deep/warm underpinning bass sound,  go CoreBass or Straight Ahead.

There's also Smolken's Ample Bass. I has his sfz-format bass and that was good, but I haven't tried Ample.

If you want to spend a lot more, I understand Trillian is a good bass.

Jerry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[HIBI]

2 hours ago, jerrydf said:

If you want a real ricky-jazz-rockabilly string response, Bolder's Roots Upright Bass (RUB) is your man. https://www.boldersounds.com/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&cPath=3_18&products_id=138

Wow, slap-palm-flick, nice! Seems it can also play psychobilly W-bass line.

[Christian Jones]

I believe he asked for a free library - and in that regard I can't help, sorry; I'm only posting the show a much cheaper price for Straight Ahead Bass for $35.10 rather than Big Fish's $89 here https://www.straightaheadsamples.com/sa-bass

But if you think you'll ever want to transpose those bass notes and/or move the key switches you'll not be able to do that w/ SA Bass; you are bound to the pre-mapping as laid out by the developer. Try to transpose w/ that library and everything goes haywire, and as such I can't even personally recommend that library. Yeah, not much help. 

[Mánibranðr Studios]

There's the Meat Bass from Karoryfer Samples which runs on Sforzando.

 

[John Vere]

If you have Dim Pro which came free back in the old days then the acoustic bass patch is actually very good. I use it a lot. 

[jerrydf]

7 hours ago, Christian Jones said:

I believe he asked for a free library

Sorry - I missed the original remit. I certainly agree on the Dim Pro Accoustic Basses (I think there's two of them?)

jdf

[mark skinner]

Thanks for the suggestions.  I've only got the basic Kontakt player and free instruments on a laptop . and trying to keep the Big programs off of my studio ssd. I've downloaded a couple of freebys that are more convincing than TTS or Soundcenter. When I decide on one I'll post a link to the "instruments" thread.  I'll check and see if I have  dim pro on an old pc.  I'm really liking the "Ample Sound" bass from the videos ...   I may end up getting it later.  Thanks ..   mark