Fracture Sounds has been releasing nice Kontakt libraries as of late, together with a number of high quality freebies as a part of their Blueprint assortment. And in the present day, we’ll have a look at their sixteenth addition to the collection, Blueprint: Bass Guitar.
With this library, they’ve sampled a Fender Precision Bass (or P-bass for brief) intimately, utilizing each picked and fingered articulations.
There are additionally a number of options that we’ll check out, however first, right here’s Marcus from Fracture Sounds showcasing the Blueprint: Bass Guitar.
I just like the sound of this library. It has the midrange-y sound we all know from P-basses whereas supplying you with extra management over the tone.
You’ll be able to truly decide between an amped sign or a direct sign. The direct sign will be nice by itself or paired together with your favourite bass amp sim.
As talked about earlier, there are fingered and picked articulations, which you’ll change between within the GUI or by utilizing keyswitches.
A 3-band EQ would have been good to have for sculpting the sound, however you do get a one-knob tone management for adjusting the general brightness of the sound.
Blueprint: Bass Guitar has a compressor inbuilt, which is sort of at all times important for processing bass guitar.
There’s additionally a “drive” knob that’s solely out there when utilizing the amped sign, which may add a pleasant gritty taste to the tone.
Lastly, when you click on the cog wheel, there are extra controls for adjusting launch quantity and in addition velocity sensitivity.
That is nice for optimizing the library’s playability together with your setup since not all MIDI keyboards are made equal.
You’ll be able to, after all, use this library as is, like a bass guitar. However since we’re coping with samples, we are able to do all kinds of issues like pitch shifting, for instance.
Of their demo, Fracture Sounds reveals how pitch shifting the samples up can create an interesting-sounding pluck instrument. However we’ll depart it there so that you can discover this library as you see match.
Should you’re in search of extra free devices, take a look at Tempest Audio’s free Sona/Chroma orchestral Kontakt library!
Blueprint: Bass Guitar is out there for each the total model of Kontakt in addition to the free Kontakt Participant. Nonetheless, word that model 8 of Kontakt is required.
Obtain: Blueprint: Bass Guitar (FREE – Kontakt Participant v8 or increased required)
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