Bass Guitar VST?? Trilogy??

[kramer1309]

Hey, ive been looking for a good bass guitar VST which i can drop on a midi track that sounds good... Know any of them?
I tried a few soundfonts but didn't find what i was looking for.

I was looking at "Spectrasounds Trilogy" and was wondering whether it would be able to Drop tunings (c and a#)?
I ask because i tried the cubase studio instruments pack at a friends place and it sounds decent but for it is unable to play a midi file in a drop tuning (from guitar pro)... So anyone know whether trilogy can do it? Their samples on the website sound nice...

Thanks

 

[The-Zeronaut]

I think "hardcore bass" its the best

 

[Mancha]

I believe C is the lowest note Trilogy can play

 

[Zuranthus]

i use broomstick bass...trilogy is massive for bass only
http://www.bornemark.se/bb/index.htm

 

[kramer1309]

@Mancha : So i wont be able to play 5 stringers through that then?

@Zuranthus: I tried the demo for broomstick bass... loaded the vst onto the bass track in the sequencer and my bass line was replaced with their automated player - i couldn't get it to play the bass line i had written out - any ideas on how to do that?... it sounded good though

 

[Torniojaws]

Spectrasonics Trilogy can play any reasonable (and unreasonable) note. It's the best bass guitar synth I've used, but it's far from a real bass still. Broomstick Bass was horrendously crappy, it only has *one fucking octave* (sheesh!), ie. it is useless for anything. I won't even get to Steinberg Virtual Bass... all I can say: WTF?!? :zombie: Oh and the "Bass Guitar" preset on Subtractor in Reason 3.0/4.0 is relatively decent too, though not quite as good as Trilogy.

 

[MetallyGuitarded]

i use broomstick bass...
http://www.bornemark.se/bb/index.htm

+1. It sounds even better through something like Ampeg SVX or with a Guitar Rig bass preset. It has awesome articulation too though I never use more than basic note triggering. The articulations are really cool but since I just use it for arranging and jamming with I don't get real fancy with all the slap/pop, staccato, slides, bends, etc.

@Zuranthus: I tried the demo for broomstick bass... loaded the vst onto the bass track in the sequencer and my bass line was replaced with their automated player - i couldn't get it to play the bass line i had written out - any ideas on how to do that?... it sounded good though

In Broomstick it has a manual mode ( which plays whatever notes are on the MIDI track you assign it to ) and it has another mode that will try to do some fancy chord-reading and auto accompany. The button for manual mode is right in the middle of the main screen.

Broomstick Bass was horrendously crappy, it only has *one fucking octave* (sheesh!), ie. it is useless for anything.

FWIW I've used Broomstick down to C ( which I think is it's lowest note ) and up at least 2 octaves to harmonize a guitar run or two.

 

[Mancha]

Ok, I just checked, and B is the lowest note Trilogy plays.
There are 4,5 and 6 string models, but they all play B as the lowest.

I used Broomstick as well, and I really liked their fretless model, but Trilogy is simply much better when it comes to non-fretless models.

 

[Zuranthus]

trilogy's like 20GB though...i find that excessive for one instrument, & it really doesn't sound that much better. in a mix i doubt you could tell

 

[MetallyGuitarded]

trilogy's like 20GB though...i find that excessive for one instrument, & it really doesn't sound that much better. in a mix i doubt you could tell

Yeah, what he said.

 

[kramer1309]

@metallyGuitarded : i tried the boomstick bass demo and put the manual mode on but playback stopped !?! so i dunno what happened there?

btw: trilogy takes up 3.9GB according to the website so...

 

[Torniojaws]

Ok, I just checked, and B is the lowest note Trilogy plays.
There are 4,5 and 6 string models, but they all play B as the lowest.

Here's a Trilogy clip I just did where the lowest notes go down to B -1 (minus one). A five-string bass' lowest B is B1, ie. the lowest notes in the clip below are TWO octaves below what a standard tuned 5-string bass is capable of, or something ridiculous, which far lower than anyone in their right mind would tune anything I guess the fundamentals are somewhere around 5..10 Hz :zombie:

http://koti.mbnet.fi/juhau/trilogy.mp3

 

[kramer1309]

WOAH... ok, so i dont have issues with the low notes ... THANK YOU

 

[lekteri]

trilogy sounds poor when it plays 16th notes at 160bpm->

 

[kramer1309]

Really?
could you post a sample of what you mean...
though i probably wont be using 16ths at 160 bpm but still...

 

[Torniojaws]

The good thing is that you won't notice the badness in a full mix, but it is quite noticeable when the bass is the only instrument playing.

 

[kramer1309]

Ahh, alrite then, i hope it works out

 

[Torniojaws]

Here, I did a quick semi-full mix sample with Trilogy, and also the Trilogy track soloed:

http://koti.mbnet.fi/juhau/trilogy-fullmix.mp3
http://koti.mbnet.fi/juhau/trilogy-solo.mp3

Nevermind the mix etc, it's just a 1 minute splat with bare minimum mixing.

 

[James-Doolan]

Sounds like ass on its own is the best bass vsti out there for metal?

 

[Torniojaws]

Sounds like ass on its own is the best bass vsti out there for metal?

It's the best I've used so far, although it still isn't all that good I guess you could call it the least worst bass VST. But like I mentioned earlier, they are still far from the real thing. It's especially 16th notes that all of them struggle with.