Chocolate Audio has announced the release of the BBassV Electric Bass for Kontakt. The instrument is the outcome of several years of research and development and it strives to set a new benchmark in terms of playability and tone. A long time was dedicated to achieving the best possible tone by trimming and fine tuning Kontakt's internal effects and by adding 172 custom cabinet + mic impulse responses.



Playability was addressed through the development of custom algorithms to emulate the way a real bass player moves along and across the fretboard. In addition there is an exclusive legato/slide engine which plays realtime legato and slide-to articulations at any BPM, using intuitive keyboard techniques.



Chocolate Audio sampled a Yamaha BB415 5-string electric bass, an instrument well-known by experienced bass players for its character and personality.



Features:

• 964 MB (lossless compressed) library size, 6517 samples
• Samples are looped after roughly 6 seconds to save on RAM
• 4 sustaining dynamic layers, chromatically sampled
• 4 round robins for each note/dynamic (2 index + 2 middle finger samples)
• All 5 Strings sampled
• 8 release trails layers for each note/string
• Fingered, Fingered Mute and Harmonics main articulations
• Sampled with a Millennia DI preamps fed direct into Apogee converters
• Ease of use thanks to our custom advanced scripting
• Recorded at 24-bit / 96 kHz, released at 24-bit / 44.1 kHz
• Easy-to-use effects section for extreme sound-mangling

Main Kontakt engine features:

• Custom User Interface
• Semi-Intelligent auto-fretting algorithms developed in-house, emulate different bass players' way of playing
• Manual fretting for advanced users
• Advanced legato and slide-to technology allows for slides of any duration and interval, controllable with your playing
• Custom vibrato, modeled after real bassists' vibratos
• Effects section specially tuned for bass instruments
• No need to learn tons of key-switches
• 172 custom cabinet + mic combinations IRs for maximum tonal realism
• 26 factory presets
• Works as stand-alone, AAX, RTAS, AU and VST for Mac and PC

Requirements:

• 2 GB RAM (more if in need of loading more sample sets)
• Core2Duo or equivalent Mac or PC
• Kontakt Retail Version: v5.4.3 or newer
• MIDI Keyboard

BBassV is available for: $64.35 until Oct. 18th (Regular $99)



More INFO: Chocolate Audio | BBassV

 

Last edited: Sep 28, 2015