AcousticSamples JBass
Electric Bass Virtual Instrument
JBass samples a four string Fender Custom Shop Jazz bass with flatwound strings.
The first Jazz Bass was made in 1960. It was made to accompany Fender's new guitar at the time, the Jazzmaster. The neck on the Jazz Bass were longer and narrower than any of Fender's previous models. This new design was intended to mimic the feel of the stand-up bass. Even the new mid tones that the guitars could produce were made with jazz musicians in mind.
The sound of the Fender Jazz Bass has been fundamental in the development of signature sounds in certain musical genres, such as funk, disco, reggae, blues, heavy metal and jazz fusion and is now used in almost any genre.
At the bottom of the interface, you can control the behavior of the instrument:
- Play mode: you can choose the playing technique, we recorded the bass using the fingers, a pick, playing it with the fingers or the pick with the palm muting the strings
- Legato mode: you can choose whether 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 release Volume: the sound produced when you release a string if a note was going on
- Compression: you can turn the multiband compressor on or off
- Cabinet: you can turn the Cabinet simulation on or off
- EQ: you can edit the Bass and Treble of the parametric EQ
- The Sensitivity will set the minimum volume for velocity 1 and give you access to all the dynamics that you want
JBass 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
- 1.72GB uncompressed, 750MB compressed in lossless flac format, around 2500 samples
- 6 Velocity layers for the sustain (two round robins, so 12 samples per note)
- 15 Velocities for the release
- Hammer on samples
- Pick, muted and mick muted samples
- String noises played randomly
- Harmonics, ghost notes, string hits samples
- 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
- 1.72GB 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
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