Bass Guitar VSTi?

[Mopy]

This may come across as an odd question, although I'm trying to weigh up any alternatives before opening up my wallet to buy a real bass guitar.

For the past few months I've been borrowing my mates bass for recording purposes. (I mainly specialise in guitars at this point in time.) Although I think it's time to look at other options aside from mooching off friends.

I know a VSTi wont be a permanent fix, although I'd like to at least try one out before committing on the real deal. So the question is, are there any decent bass guitar vsti's which I can run my midi tracks through which I've made in Guitar Pro?

Cheers,

Tom.

 

[wetpenny]

TSE BOD is a sansamp emulation thats freeware.. HIGHLY recommended!!!

http://www.theserinaexperiment.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=68

 

[punkrawk]

Trillian.

 

[Mopy]

TSE BOD is a sansamp emulation thats freeware.. HIGHLY recommended!!!

http://www.theserinaexperiment.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=68

It looks great, although it doesn't play my midi files. :S
I think that's more for amp emulation while playing as a DI.

 

[wetpenny]

It looks great, although it doesn't play my midi files. :S
I think that's more for amp emulation while playing as a DI.

ah my mistake , im always quick to champion TSE BOD as soon as i see the words "bass" and "vst"

 

[MindMunch]

I'm trying to weigh up any alternatives before opening up my wallet to buy a real bass guitar.(...) So the question is, are there any decent bass guitar vsti's which I can run my midi tracks through which I've made in Guitar Pro?

The decent vstis are not cheap. Trilian is $300 and hardcore bass is $200, and IMO they´re limited. Not to mention that you definitely will have more trouble than just importing the GuitarPro midi file for them to sound good. This kind of instrumment take a good ammount of MIDI editing.

You´re better buying a cheap real bass, unless you can´t play bass.

 

[HaydenLM1]

Trillian.

yeah..either that or get a decent bass guitar..

 

[Djabthrash]

Trilian

 

[grywolf627]

Prominy SR5 Rock Bass. I haven't used it (yet), but the demos sound incredible.

 

[Djabthrash]

Prominy SR5 Rock Bass. I haven't used it (yet), but the demos sound incredible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSIFgNRC-v8

Nice indeed ! Never heard about it before.

 

[grywolf627]

^^Me neither, until about a month ago. I really want to get my hands on it. From what I see/hear in the demos...it may surpass Trillian (just my opinion though).

 

[Djabthrash]

^^Me neither, until about a month ago. I really want to get my hands on it. From what I see/hear in the demos...it may surpass Trillian (just my opinion though).

Try it out before buying it, cuz' it might "sound" awesome, but maybe the interface/tweakability is not there.

Those demos sound amazing though (so do the Trilian demos )

 

[grywolf627]

If you're on a tight budget, this is very good sounding:

http://www.orangetreesamples.com/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=3

 

[grywolf627]

Try it out before buying it, cuz' it might "sound" awesome, but maybe the interface/tweakability is not there.

Those demos sound amazing though (so do the Trilian demos )

I agree! But the main reason I'm anxious to try the SR5 VSTi: the trem picking. Every bass VSTi I've tried falls apart when it comes to moderate to fast trem picking. At least from the demo, this seems really good and gives me hopes.

 

[Mopy]

I've stumbled upon Kontakt free with the free foundry pack and it so far sounds amazing, although I think there may be a few problems since my compositions are all in Drop A#...

In Kontakt, every string other than the lowest (A#) string plays... Which is confusing the crap out of me and I can't think of any way to fix this. Any ideas?

As I've said before, I've tabbed out the bass/drums in Guitar Pro and exported them as individual midi files. The drums run fine through Superior Drummer/Addictive Drums, although the Bass' lowest string doesn't respond.

 

[Djabthrash]

I've stumbled upon Kontakt free with the free foundry pack and it so far sounds amazing, although I think there may be a few problems since my compositions are all in Drop A#...

In Kontakt, every string other than the lowest (A#) string plays... Which is confusing the crap out of me and I can't think of any way to fix this. Any ideas?

As I've said before, I've tabbed out the bass/drums in Guitar Pro and exported them as individual midi files. The drums run fine through Superior Drummer/Addictive Drums, although the Bass' lowest string doesn't respond.

If it's a sample library and they didn't sample such "low" notes (your A# octave) i guess there's no sample to be played for that specific note right ? Or maybe there is a workaround, like they take the lowest note sample available and pitch it down ?
(Never tried super-low tunings with Trilian yet so i don't know. I'm interested in this since a friend asked me to have his A# tuned midi bass part go through my Trilian.)

 

[Terminus]

This is the only bass vsti (well, only one i've tried) that can do A# that I know of.

http://www.kvraudio.com/db/1094

I use it when I dont feel like playing the bass track. Obviously wont be a stellar sounding bass track but it's decent enough for some free shit. The "walking bass" patch sounds best imo.

 

[Djabthrash]

Just trying to have a standard A# tuned bass MIDI file played by Trilian in Reaper, and it seems Trilian cannot get no further than B... I'm using the hardcore bass by the way.

Is there a workaround to reach lower tunings ? Or maybe the last resort would be having the bass track as low as the VSTi can handle (B for Trilian it seems, at least for the hardcore bass.... i need to try out with other basses) and then pitching it down (a semitone in my case, not sure if it will work out ok or my tone will turn to shit...) a bit to reach the right tuning.

EDIT : Tried out different electric basses in Trilian, they all seem to go to B at the lowest (so A# would not work), BUT there is a "transpose" knob in the "EDIT" section and you can change the pitch in it. Tried pitching it down a semitone, sounds ok, not as good the original tone, but decent.