There is also Trillian, which uses its own player.The features and sound between these differ a lot, and some sound a lot better than others. For heavier, down tuned stuff you have the Wilkinson Audio Zombass series, Cory Brunnemanns basses, Colossal Bass, DjentBass ERG and Chango Twango to mention some.
#Scarbee bass how low can it go free#
You have the Scarbee bass instruments which offer a great deal of options and playing styles (and can be used with the free Kontakt player). There are plenty of bass VIs for Kontakt online, all with different articulations, tunings and features. However, if you want more than basic features and standard tuning, you’re gonna want to buy a VI bass instrument. There are also free sample players out there. It plays all the way down to G#0.ĤFront Bass demonstration (opens in a new tab) Kontakt 5 Classic Bass demonstration (opens in a new tab)Īnother free bass instrument is 4front bass. Here is a demonstration of one of the basses. A problem with this VI is that it doesn’t play below B0, so I had to transpose the MIDI a semitone up and the output of kontakt a semitone down. If your DAW doesn’t have them, if you’re not happy with the ones you have, or you simply want to try something else, Kontakt Player comes free with a select few instruments. Most DAWs come with a handful of virtual instruments (VI) of varying number and quality. Many sampled bass instruments also require a third party sample player like Kontakt, which is either expensive or free for 15 minutes at a time (when using third party NKIs, some instruments (like SSD 3.5) are licensed and does not time out after 15 minutes. They can be large in size, and therefore taxing on your RAM. These can be quite realistic sounding if well sampled and programmed. There are plenty of sampled MIDI bass instruments. Steinberg VB-1 demonstration (opens in a new tab) It’s old, but free, and possibly more suited to other genres.
The Steinberg VB-1 is a synthesized MIDI bass instrument. Sinus Tone demonstration (opens in a new tab) This technique can also be combined with any of the methods mentioned in this article. While it won’t sound like a bass it might fill out the low end in your track. If not, Cockos’ ReaSynth is a free VSTi that can be downloaded from reaper.fm. Your DAW most likely has a MIDI controlled tone generator, basically a synth that generates a sinus tone. Option 2: Synthesized MIDI bass instruments Palm muted and fast picked parts may or may not work well with this method. Harmonically complex material, like chords, can become really muddy when pitched down, so avoid playing more than one note at a time. You may find this works better if you rewrite and record a new DI instead of reusing one. It sounds gross on it’s own, but in the mix it kind of works.
The results will vary, depending on what guitar, tuning and playing styles used on your DI tracks.ĭI Guitar demonstration (opens in a new tab) If you have your guitar riff recorded DI, add a pitch shifter plugin, shift it down an octave and add some bass processing. I used to do this all the time when I just started out. For the sake of “science” I used the same bass tone for all the examples. Every four bars the guitars are muted or unmuted. I did a quick mix, shortened it and left out the vocals, but you can get the full raws on the Ultimate Stem Share Facebook Group. The demonstrations go as follows: Two bars of raw bass only(slightly limited) -> two bars of bass tone only -> eight bars of riff -> eight bars of chugging -> eight bars of chords. I’ve demonstrated these techniques with raw files for the song Ancient Waters by Fit For a King. The raws were made by Jerry Edwards, who recorded guitar, and Aaron Ruel who did the drum programming. But what if your bass is broken, or you don’t have one available at the moment? In this article I will show you a few options that could enhance your songs whenever you don’t have a bass available.
For rock and heavier music, low end punch is critical if you want your music to hit as hard as you’d like.
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