I understand drum VSTis - they simplify a complicated task of micing up a kit, much cheaper than the hardware, and enable bedroom wonders to have a decent drum track.
But bass VSTis? Really? Isn't it easier to play a bass line than to try and sequence the MIDI for it? Where is the value in these?
bass vsti and drum vsti are not different
i'm no professional but i do have some experience and can write a whole rock song, even some metal songs with veloticy changes in a few minutes. recording a real bass i'd have to make sure the takes are perfect so it's most likely to take more time get the "perfect take" for each part while in midi your perfect take is a few clicks, just like programmed and real drums. imagine recording a fast metal and progressive song and get all the takes perfect, i can just midi that shit in less than an hour (been there)
the thing i like the most about virtual basses is that you can have a lot of bass sounds at your disposal, while compared to having a real bass, well, it's just one bass and in my situation it's really difficult to get some nice basses here and obviously don't have the money to get the basses that I like. Also you don't have to tune. I haven't found THE (real) bass that works with everything so it's just a pain in the ass. the basses that i like how they sound are usually very expensive and the people that i know with nice basses won't lend me theirs, and i'm not fucking rich to go arround buying a lot of basses so...
the problem with vsti is when i midi some really fast stuff (metal) the low end sounds kinda lost, but with softer stuff it sounds very nice and it's easier to handle (i have trilian).
in my opinion a nice bass vsti is 100x better than recording with a cheap bass sound wise, i know this isn't a popular opinion on this forum but...it's just an opinion. I don't see how a virtual bass can be sonically inferior to the real deal, check the link in the op that shit's tight. If it's well programmed nobody is going to tell if it was recorded or not...unlike drum vst (which CAN sound real with some time and skill)
Also I should have added the words "in metal" on the title of the thread...