The contrabass tuba delivers an incredibly deep and profoundly resonant tone that provides a rich bass foundation for any composition. Its heavy, majestic sound is earthy, dazzling in all registers with a unique timbre that is rounder and darker than that of the bass tuba, and less metallic than the bass or contrabass trombone. All these tonal qualities were meticulously captured at our purpose-built Silent Stage, with its tight and controlled ambience, ensuring unparalleled clarity and authenticity.
Contrabass tuba, regular and muted
Short and long notes, legato, dynamics, trills, repetitions, flutter tongue
Recorded at the Silent Stage
Mixer presets for authentic placement at Vienna Synchron Stage
Optional Vienna MIR Pro 3D-derived convolution reverb
Switch off internal reverb for placement in any virtual acoustic environment
Providing a resonance unmatched by other brass instruments, the contrabass tuba delivers the deepest and richest tones in this category – perfect for musical situations where you need massive brass parts to give the musical mood you want to create for your listeners the necessary foundation and weight.
Staccato
Portato medium with normal, soft, and hard attack
Portato long, soft and hard attack
Windows 10 (latest update, 64-bit), Intel Core i5 or AMD Athlon Pro
macOS 11 Big Sur (latest update), Intel Core i5
SSD (M2, SATA 6 or USB3/3.1, UASP Support - HFS+, APFS or NTFS formatted)
8 GB RAM
iLok Account and iLok License Manager for license activation on a physical iLok 2/iLok 3 key or in an iLok Cloud Session (the iLok Cloud requires a constant internet connection!)
Free storage space: 1 GB (download size = installed size due to lossless data compression)
Windows 10/11 (latest updates, 64-bit), Intel Core i5/i7/i9/Xeon
macOS 14 Sonoma (or higher), Intel Core i7/i9/Xeon/M1/M2/M3
16 GB RAM
SSD (M2, SATA 6 or USB3/3.1, UASP Support - HFS+, APFS or NTFS formatted)
AU/VST/VST3/AAX Native compatible host
88 key master keyboard