Basstard
- Kontakt VST / AU / AAX
- Also Available in Soundpaint for $20 with 127 Dynamic Layers
- Deep-Sampled Progressively Destroyed Double Bass
- Multi-sampled Tonal Patches
- Multi-sampled Percussive Patches (up to 10 RR)
- Multi-sampled FX patches – LOTS of them
- Tempo-Synced BPM Grooves
- Keyboard Controlled Live FX
- New Front-Faced FX & Chaos FX Engine
- Product is only available as Direct Download
- 1.03GB
- Kontakt 5.8.1 Full Retail (or later) Required
Bass Sampled to Destruction
Welcome to The Basstard, an instrument focused on recording the gradual destruction of a full-scale orchestral bass. The library contains four core categories of sounds: “Tonal”, “Percussive”, “FX” and “Grooves”.
The tonal category covers traditional multi-sampled articulations like plucked, staccato, rubber mallet on strings, regular drumstick on strings, fork on strings, and other tools that could be used for tonal sampling. The percussive category contains a variety of heavy round-robin based articulations, playing the instrument like a drum kit (containing 6-10 round robin articulations). The FX category has a gruesome number of effects such as bowing the bass with a baseball bat, using a power drill on the strings, recording sustained notes from it, and actually power-drilling the bass and reconfigureing the instrument, separating its neck from its body and essentially reassembling the instrument in horrible ways. The Groove category contains unique tempo-synched grooves recorded at several core tempos (80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140).
The result is a deep-sampled instrument that pushes the concept of orchestral bass into a more dark, gritty, percussive and disturbing territory.
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Multi-Sampled Basstard
The Basstard contains a large section of unconventional multi-samples. We recorded the upright bass both as a plucked and percussive instrument, using anything from rubber mallets and regular drumsticks to forks, bows, baseball bats and even power drills. The result is a highly percussive bass, which is awesome for those gritty motion-picturesque grooves or alternative styles of music.
Groove Sampled Basstard
The Basstard is also a fascinating percussive instrument and contains a large segment of over 300 live-groove elements, which can be used together with the multi-samples. The grooves were uniquely recorded at several core tempos (80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140) and programmed to match your DAW host-tempo.
The Real-Time Effects of Basstard
The Basstard also contains a custom real-time FX system, which allows you to push things even further. The effects are laid out as key switches on your keyboard and can be triggered in real-time on top of the samples, allowing you to use the effects in a more direct and rhythmic fashion.
