Team ASSiGN Date: 03 FEBRUARY 2010 11.56 GB PRE-BASS is derived from the acclaimed Scarbee Blue Bass library, and the first release in the recently established development partnership between sampling expert Thomas Hansen Skarbye and Native Instruments. Powered by the industry-leading KONTAKT engine and playable via the free KONTAKT PLAYER or the KONTAKT 3 sampler, SCARBEE PREBASS delivers the full sonic spectrum of the most popular bass guitar of all time, suitable for a universal array of musical styles from pop and rock to hip-hop, jazz, funk and beyond. All four strings of the original instrument have been expertly sampled in nine velocities, resulting in over 4,000 individual studio-grade samples. The sample material was recorded through a DI for maximum sonic flexibility, using round-wound strings for a bright and punchy sound. Specific “Player Profiles” for various genres as well as EQ and effect controls allow musicians and producer to further customize the sound and behavior of PRE-BASS to fit the musical context.
Created by the accomplished bassist and producer Thomas Hansen Skarbye, this instrument is a faithfully sampled Fender® Precision bass, with the extraordinary authenticity that Scarbee is known for. It's based on the highly-regarded Scarbee Blue Bass. This product runs in the free KONTAKT PLAYER and in KONTAKT.
To preserve all the acoustic intricacies of the real instrument, PRE-BASS takes full advantage of the unique scripting features of KONTAKT, resulting in a performance that is virtually indistinguishable from that of a real professional bassist. Authentic articulations and playing techniques include hammer-ons, pull-offs, grace notes, various trills, mutes, harmonics, pickup hits and fret noises and much more, most of which are automatically triggered based on the incoming note material.
The fretboard display in KONTAKT and KONTAKT PLAYER shows the playing position and articulation of each note in real-time, with intelligent string selection and index finger/middle finger alternation as well as dedicated slide and chord modes contributing to the unparalleled authenticity of the instrument. THE AMPS In order to give you ready-to-use sounds for your productions, SCARBEE PRE-BASS AMPED offers the choice between four different amp setups. Fat is a round and tight bass sound specially produced for rock and pop oriented music productions. Heavy is an edgy and hard bass sound specially produced for heavy rock oriented music productions. Crunchy is a powerful and mildly distorted bass sound specially produced for rock oriented music productions.
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Pop is a fat and crispy bass sound specially produced for R&B and pop oriented music productions. THE BASS Recorded with round-wound strings to get a fat and dirty sound, SCARBEE PRE-BASS AMPED also features a vast and incredibly intuitive set of playing techniques.
The level of expression makes for a truly authentic and fun playing experience, and lends itself to a wide range of styles, from reggae, to pop, rock, hip-hop, R&B and much more. SCARBEE PRE-BASS AMPED is fully playable in real time, with almost all articulations (including mutes, harmonics, hammer-ons, pull-offs, grace notes and more) available without key switches.
What's more, SCARBEE PREBASS AMPED makes exceptional use of the KONTAKT interface, displaying a fretboard overview with articulations dynamically updated as you play. With over 4,000 samples covering all four strings, nine velocity layers, and advanced cripting that makes playing both highly intuitive and stunningly authentic, it's easy to see why the pros choose SCARBEE PRE-BASS AMPED. Features:. Real-time playable – with the exception of cross hammering and trills all of the articulations in the list given further below can be triggered without the need for any keyswitches. Hammer-on & pull-offs are triggered by legato playing and fast grace notes by fast legato playing. A powerful user interface pushing the Kontakt user interface to its limits: a fretboard display gives an overview of the playing position and for each string what fret and articulation (displayed as a unique symbol) that are used & dynamically updated as you play.
All four strings sampled, more than 4 000 samples and up to 9 velocity layers to capture the full timbre of the bass. Each string is monophonic so new notes abort earlier notes, giving a perfectly realistic bass. Automatic string selection – play and the script selects the most suitable string for you. Use keyswitches to limit the string choice or to move the active playing position (placement of left hand).
The automatic string selection is tailor-made to work well with every articulation. Automatic alternation of right hand index and middle finger samples (can also be controlled using keyswitches). Convenient keyswitch mode – a keyswitch affects the following note or remains active as long as it’s pressed – making it easy to quickly return to the default mode of operation. Slide mode – play a note legato while holding the sustain pedal pressed to trigger a slide. The velocity will determine a slide speed anywhere between 60 to 480 bpm.
Slides use real interval transitions sampled in three different speeds for realism and employ a new technique invented by Skarbye/Liberg to significantly reduce RAM usage. Slides are available for every interval up to an octave down and up from the current note. It’s possible to play multiple slides consecutively to go up and then down.
Chord mode – makes it possible for notes to be automatically assigned to the right strings even if the notes of a chord don’t arrive exactly at the same time. Control over release samples – random alternation between more or less tight (how quickly they are dampened) release samples where the proportion of each can be controlled by the user. Select a default release type and use a keyswitch to toggle between the default behaviour and the other type. Pickup-hits – randomly inserted where they are most likely to occur in real-life playing.
The user can set the probability of a pickup-hit to occur. The sound of Mr. Scarbee’s own fingers.
Bass recorded DI to give you maximum flexibility in the sound production. EQ and Effect Presets – direct in the instrument user interface. Integrated documentation for all settings – direct in the instrument user interface.
Articulations and playing technicques – Sustains, Mutes, Harmonics, Hammer-on, Pull-off, Fast grace notes, Slides – in practically any speed and any interval, Trills and trill-tails, Buzz-trills, Cross hammering, Chords, Chord slides, Percussive slides, Index and middle finger alternation, Two different sets of release samples: loose and tight, Pickup-hit noises, Fret noises. Download Click.
As I emphasized before, is one of the better bass guitar virtual representations I came across. It offers various options for playing and controlling. What’s more, I guarantee that if you dedicate some time to explore its full potential you will not be left unsatisfied. In the previous part of the tutorial for the Scarbee MM-Bass, I guided you through its basic functions and gave you a brief overlook of its interface. Since you got familiar with this, in part 2 I will show you some advanced features. Scarbee MM-Bass advanced features As in last part of this tutorial, let us start by loading and a fresh instance of Scarbee MM-Bass (by using Kontakt player) to newly created MIDI channel within SoundBridge. Perform tab In the left part of the interface, you can see a tab that has “Perform” written by default.
Moreover, if we click on it, the drop-down menu appears. As you can see above, here we get a list of many different submenus holding various controls. For example, if we click on the “Players Profile”, we can select one of the 3 different styles. Therefore, their playing styles change the fret behavior as follows:. Pop & Country: No specific preference for low/high frets.
Soul & Funk: Frets above fret 4 are preferred. Rock & Retro: Frets above fret 6 are preferred FX presets Pursuing this further, we are moving forward to “FX Presets” where we can open a sub-menu. It is possible to choose from the interesting pre-saved preset bank. From Standard, Old school, New wave, my favorite is 2020 lead which sounds really fat and spacious. Pickup hit Next feature from this menu that I would like to mention is the “Pickup Hit”. It is basically a sound of a player hammering right-hand fingers on strings when playing hard. With this feature, by dialing the Ratio parameter, you can control how much of the pickup hammering sound should be present.
Controllers One more useful feature from this section is the “Controllers” submenu. Here with using CC mapping, you can switch between different articulations of the sequence that played. Let’s list a few:. Playing position: Will affect the next note, but not lock the position like holding position key switch (F5-B6) pressed does. Slide mode: Is used to activate Slide Mode (by default is set to CC#64). Sustain: Used to sustain notes (like the sustain pedal otherwise does) All this CC mapping can be changed to different lines by your choosing.
Let me now show you how to engage for example the Slide mode followed by a short audio example of the bass guitar sequence which I made using Scarbee MM-Bass. As you can see in the Soundbridge`s MIDI editor I marked a MIDI CC tab in red. Moreover, by clicking on this tab we enter the submenu where I will choose the MIDI CC#64 which controls the slide mode. Here is how it looks like. After selecting the MIDI CC#64 we are taken back to the MIDI editor.
Here, I will draw the line for Slide mode by clicking on the “View MIDI CC” tab. I marked it in red in the picture below.
The line appears on the middle of the piano roll but to get the full effect of the Slide mode I will pull it up to the maximum value, which is 127. In the end, let us hear how this bass sequence sounds with all the settings I mentioned in this tutorial. Scarbee MM-Bass Sequence Download the project.