
With all the features, options, and tweakability, this is a great choice for a superb sounding bass instrument. I didn’t have any troubles messing with it and I doubt you will either. Loaded up, it takes about 200mb or so, not bad, and it plays good. Like I said, everything can be accessed from the main screen of the instrument, so it keeps it streamlined and ready to go. It loads up as a libray in kontakt, and there is only one instrument, the bass.
SCARBEE BASS DEMO FULL VERSION
It is a kontakt instrument, but you don’t need the full version of Kontakt to play it, as it works with Native Instruments free kontakt player. It can be as deep or as simple as you want it, and no matter how you use it, the sound will remain top notch. You can go as deep as you want, so for all you bassist, you’ll love it, and for all your producers that like me, just want to sound good…it’s good for that too. And it automatically alternates “fingers” on repeated notes, good stuff. They have things like “player profiles” which sets up the sound towards a specific type of music, which is dope.Įq, chords, pickup, hits, all that can be adjusted. If you’re like me, you may not know everything it’s talking about, but they do put some notes in the interface and make it easy to just play around. Now the pre bass does have a lot of features, but it’s very easy to access them all from the performance interface. I’ve seen some sampled bass instruments before, and it was so hard to use all the features, I just moved on. They’ve done some great programming so that it doesn’t sound stale and lifeless and the programming helps you create some awesome sounding riffs.Īlternations, chords, slides, frets, pickups, hits, everything you’d get from a real bass…it’s all here. Not made for subs and synth bass sounds, this is for those real funk, soul, rock…authentic sounding basslines your music craves from time to time.

The instrument itself sounds AWESOME, it is a very realistic sounding bass instrument. I’m not a bass player, so I can’t tell you much about the fender precision joint, but I will say I love a good bass. The Pre Bass is the first of many instruments to come out of this new partnership. Well, first off, Scarbee is a fantastic sample/sound design company that has partnered with Native Instruments to distribute their fantastic instruments. So what’s up with the bass and who is Scarbee? This instrument is based on the Fender Precision bass, and promises to give you a very realistic bass sound. Today I want to take a look at their new bass instrument they sent me to review, the Scarbee Pre Bass. His sound design brand has become synonymous with quality, and his sampled instruments have become the first choice of many leading producers and musicians around the world.It’s about that time for some more loving from Native Instruments, and boy have they been busy! Thomas Hansen Skarbye is a high-level bass player who has worked with artists such as Neil Rogers (Chic) and Alicia Keyes. And thanks to some complex scenarios, the SCARBEE MM-BASS AMPED comes to life thanks to features such as dynamic fretboard display, chord recognition, randomly alternating triggering of various samples, random insertion of pickup beats and realistic vibrato – all this allows you to decorate your groove. It includes an extensive array of gaming techniques, including sustain, muffles, harmonics, hammering, snippets, slides, and more. SCARBEE MM-BASS AMPED is much more than just a collection of samples. Full bass strings were sampled to reproduce the tone changes that happen when switching between low and high frets – giving you a rich, natural sound with all overtones. SCARBEE MM-BASS AMPED was recorded with flat-wrapped strings to get the warm creamy sound of the 1970s bass lines.

Pop is a thick and crispy bass specially created for R&B and pop-oriented music. Heavy is a sharp and hard bass specially created for heavy rock oriented music.Ĭrunchy is a powerful and slightly distorted bass specifically designed for rock-oriented music. To provide you with ready-made sounds for your pieces, SCARBEE MM-BASS AMPED offers a choice between four different amp settings.įat – rounded and dense bass, specially created for rock and pop-oriented music.
SCARBEE BASS DEMO SERIES
SCARBEE MM-BASS AMPED is a great addition to our Powered-by KONTAKT series of instruments, ready to use with the free KONTAKT PLAYER or KONTAKT player. SCARBEE MM-BASS AMPED is based on Scarbee Black Bass, created by seasoned bassist and producer Thomas Hansen Skarbye and inspired by the sound of Bernard Edwards (Chic). 17 expressive articulations and techniques. Four sounds for R&B, pop, rock and hard rock.

Carefully sampled electric bass to sit perfectly in the mix.
