Top-Quality Instant Basslines for Your Compositions
NOTE: This product requires a Steinberg Key, sold separately.
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Good bass players are very hard to find. There's nothing like the feel of a great bass player - but if you're working in the DAW environment and don't want your music to sound like the bass was played keyboard player triggering samples, then you need to get your hands on Steinberg's Virtual Bassist.
Steinberg Virtual Bassist at a Glance:- 25 styles of dynamic bass lines based on real performances by top studio bass players.
- Playable, editable vibrant, dynamic library of bass guitar sounds.
- GrooveMatch Technology locks the bass line to any existing drum groove.
- Stomp box effects optimized for bass guitar, a choice of amp heads, speaker cabinets, and microphones.
- A SteinbergKey is required.
Real Performances by Top Studio Bass Players.
Using dynamic phrases based on real performances by top studio bass players, Virtual Bassist provides all manner of bass guitar phrases, sounds and styles. Utilizing a huge array of samples and phrases in 25 styles, Virtual Bassist covers almost every conceivable music genre, delivering top class sounds and phrases for rock, pop, reggae, metal and hip hop to name but a few. It's also possible to play all the bass sounds and phrases manually via MIDI, just like a sound module.
Dynamic Library of Bass Guitar Sounds
While the huge range of included intros, fills and variations provides a vibrant, dynamic library of bass guitar sounds, the MIDI Export/Import features allow grooves to be opened up in the MIDI Key Editor of the host application for detailed editing, adding a further level of variety and adaptability. Playing Virtual Bassist is just about as easy as it gets: press the keys on your MIDI keyboard to select a phrase and use your Mod wheel to dynamically move through complexity levels for your groove. The results are amazing: musical, flowing, and deeply grooving bass lines with all the feel of a real player.
GrooveMatch Technology
Virtual Bassist also offers GrooveMatch, a powerful tool that moulds the Virtual Bassist bass line to any existing drum groove. Owners of Groove Agent, Virtual Guitarist or Virtual Guitarist Electric Edition will find pre-matched grooves for phrases and patterns in those instruments, creating a tightly integrated drum, bass and guitar rhythm section within VST, DXi, AU or ReWire host applications. Virtual Bassist also runs in stand-alone mode on PC and Macintosh computers.
Effects Processing
Virtual Bassist gives you a full range of outstanding sound-shaping features, including a range of six high-quality 'stomp box' effects optimized for bass guitar, a choice of amp heads, speaker cabinets, and microphones, including the
ability to reposition microphones for the ultimate bass sound. You can also use the included effects for processing any audio source when used in music production environments such as Steinberg's Cubase SX3.
- Absolutely realistic and professional bass lines based on real performances by professional studio bass players.
- Fast and easy user-interface with extensive real-time keyboard control.
- 25 styles covering all aspects of bass playing, including numerous intros, fills, and variations per style.
- Outstanding bass sound shaping (bass model, attack, damping, pickup position) allows you to create the perfect sound for your song.
- Real-time performance controls (Complexity, Swing, Tempo and more).
- Two basic operation modes: Chord (fully automatic) or Note (automatic patterns, manual note pitch).
- GrooveMatch feature allows for synchronizing the bass pattern to any existing drum groove.
- Pre-matched grooves for perfect integration with Groove Agent, Virtual Guitarist, or Virtual Guitarist Electric Edition.
- MIDI import/export let you perform detailed editing of bass grooves.
- Amp section with Amp selector, speaker/mic selector, EQ, multi-band compression, overdrive.
- High-quality virtual stomp box effects with Wah-Wah, Chorus/Flanger, Tremolo, Compressor.
- Amp/FX section serves as a separate FX plug-in for processing audio.
- Compatible with any VST, DXi, AU or ReWire host application under OS X and PC.