AcousticSamples AkousKontr
Upright Bass Virtual Instrument
The AkousKontr is German 4/4 four strings Upright bass recorded from both the pickup and with a pair of Electrostatic Microphones.
On the top of the interface, you can control the behavior of the instrument:
- Legato mode: you can choose wether playing a legato will trigger Hammer ons, slides, sustains, or simply have no effect
- The legato distance will define the maximum interval that in which the legato will apply
- The Sensitivity will set the minimum volume for velocity 1 and give you access to all the dynamics that you want
- The release volume: the sound produced when you release a string if a note was going on
- AkousKontr was recorded both from the Microphone and using the pickup and you can change the volume of each one from the interface
AkousKontr comes with its own sample player, the UVI Workstation 3 (requires v3.1.6 or later), It is included for free, so you don't need to buy an expensive sampler to use the product.
Features
- 779MB uncompressed, 325MB compressed in lossless flac format, around 1710 samples
- two microphone positions (microphones + pickup)
- 5 Velocity layers for the sustain and two different takes for each note (2 rond robins)
- about 13 Velocities for the release
- Hammer on samples
- Advanced Vibrato effect controlled via modulation wheel
- slides effects
- Harmonics, ghost notes, string hits samples
- Percussion samples (hits with the hand on different parts of the bass)
- Advanced UVI scripting giving you access to a simple yet powerful interface and advanced features
System Requirements
- MacOS 10.14 Mojave and above
- Officially supported up to MacOS 14 Sonoma
- Windows 10 and above (64-bit only)
- Intel, AMD, or Apple Silicon CPU
- 780MB free storage space
- Free iLok account and iLok License Manager
- iLok Machine and iLok USB licensing methods are supported
- Includes 3 activations per license
Plugin Formats
AAX Native, AU, VST2, VST3, and Standalone
User Manual