Studio Upright Bass features recordings of a plucked bass with a variety of jazz playing techniques, implemented for playing on a keyboard. The instrument was recorded in the relatively dry and controlled environment of our second studio, the Silent Stage.
Upright bass with jazz articulations
Improved playabilty for fluid, authentic performances
Mixer Presets for authentic placement at Vienna Synchron Stage
Switch off internal reverb for placement in any virtual acoustic environment
The instrument was played by Bernd Konzett, a well-known jazz bassist from the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. Following numerous test recordings, he equipped his 4-string, three-quarter bass with a 113 cm scale with thinner E and A strings, and thicker D and G strings. A short while thereafter, Bernd realized just how painful it can be to record samples for Vienna Symphonic Library. As opposed to a several-hour-long gig at a jazz club, a glissandos recording session can be torturous, leaving the musician with veritable burns on the fingertips. The strings themselves heat up to high temperatures, resulting in regular blistering of the fingertips, even leaving behind a certain smell of burned and blistered skin in the Silent Stage.
Staccato
Portato short and long
Snap
Damped
Muted
Windows 10 (latest update, 64-bit), Intel Core i3 or AMD Athlon 64 X2
macOS 11 Big Sur (latest update), Intel Core i3
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: 738 MB (download size = installed size due to lossless data compression)
Windows 11 (latest update), Intel Core i5/i7/i9/Xeon
macOS 13 Ventura (or higher), Intel Core i5/i7/i9/Xeon/M1/M2
16 GB RAM
AU/VST/VST3/AAX Native compatible host
88 key master keyboard