Upright Bass

Grooves With Low End

A library that goes deep. The wooden sound of an upright bass brings an unmatched liveliness to the lower registers of any track. Upright Bass covers a wide range of musical genres with its tasteful dynamic grooves. The loops and licks in this library cover a wide range of playing techniques and articulations: flageolet, walking bass, half time, slides, bends, double notes and more.

Format:

ELASTIK

Genre:

Jazz, Instruments

945 MB, 437 Loops

49.00 €

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Loop Library for the free Ueberschall Elastik Player
VST2/3, AU, AAX and Standalone for macOS and Windows

Full Sonic Range Of The Upright Bass

The bass licks are between two and eight bars in length with tempos ranging from 61 to 130 BPM. Each of the 437 performances is available in three different versions, giving a total of 1,311 loops:

1-Mixed: This version mixes the microphone and piezo recordings, resulting in a round sound with convincing transients and silky highs. These loops are perfect for direct use in a song arrangement.

2-Mic: This version contains only the microphone recording. Using an excellent Neumann unit, the warm, round sound of the bass has been faithfully captured.

3-Piezo: This version records the sound of the instrument directly at the bridge using a piezo pickup. This technique ensures optimal transients and high frequency reproduction.

With the use of versions 2 and 3, it is possible to create a custom sound that is perfectly suited to your production. For this library, we have explored the full sonic range of this instrument. Thanks to professional recording techniques, you will not only hear but also feel the full depth of the upright bass, as well as its assertive and harmonically rich sound elements, which are even present on laptop and small speaker systems. All recordings were made at 44.1kHz and 24bit using proven high quality equipment to achieve the best possible sound quality.

Astonishingly Versatile

The spectrum covered by this library is astonishingly versatile. The loops and their delicate grooves fit not only soul, funk and jazz, but also related and influenced styles. Whether it is trip hop, breakbeat, lounge, house, RnB or rare groove, Upright Bass will deliver the right basslines. With creative filter and effect processing, these loops can also be used to add bass to modern genres such as Drum & Bass or Dubstep.

Soulful Grooves

Upright Bass is a library dedicated to musicians looking for a soulful groove in their productions. The instrument's broad musical spectrum will appeal to any musician influenced by soul and funk, as well as studios working on commissioned productions such as jingles, trailers or scores.

Credits

Upright Bass played by Christian Flohr

Attention: The backing loops used in the demo are not part of the library!

Instrument: Upright Bass

Elastik Soundbank for Mac & Win - AU/VST/AAX/StandAlone

945 MB, 437 Upright Bass Loops & Phrases

SOUNDBANK CONTENT

Upright Bass Mixed: 437

Upright Bass Mic: 437

Upright Bass Piezo: 437

In addition to the pitch and tempo manipulation, Elastik’s central Loopeye is a detailed loop-editing tool. A large number of parameters can be adjusted, including slice-based pitch-shifting, volume and pan, reverse, formant, filter and resample. Elastik even includes a random sound replacement function called INSPIRE: one click on the Inspire button and Elastik will select an alternative loop, providing just that bit of additional inspiration when you need it. All this can be done on the fly and without leaving the Elastik environment. You can define which soundbanks will be used in the Inspire tool with the new Inspire browser.

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REVIEW

Upright Bass is well recorded, well played and represents a decent bang for your buck if you want a slice of genuine upright bass to build your next tune around.

Upright Bass

Sound on Sound, August 2014

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug14/articles/sample-shop-0814-2.htm

As its title suggests, Upright Bass offers around 1GB of solo upright bass loops — just over 400 in total — covering a range of tempos from 60 through to 130 bpm. In addition, each loop is presented in three different versions, recorded via a microphone, a piezo pickup and then a premixed blend of the two. All the loops are fairly dry so you can add your own processing as required, but, with the combination of different versions, you have the convenience of the premixed loop, the smoothness of the microphone recording or, if required, the ability to blend in the more noticeable attack of the piezo version.

Usefully, aside from the three different versions, the loops are also organised at two further levels: by tempo into three distinct tempo ranges, and then into 'performances'. The latter contain a varying number of individual loops all recorded at the same tempo/key combination and are obviously intended to allow you to combine them to construct a single coherent performance. The number of loops within each of these performances varies between four and 20, so, for all but the most compact of the sets, there is generally plenty of choice when it comes to building a complete musical performance.

The upright bass is perhaps most closely associated with jazz and, yes, you could use these loops to build a suitable bass performance to sit under your next jazz compositions. However, the playing, while very solid and rhythmically interesting, is very disciplined and really doesn't stretch out into the esoteric harmonic reaches that some virtuoso jazz players can go to. Instead, most of what you get is just great solid bass lines that could just as easily sit beneath contemporary pop tunes rather than something with a more obvious jazz influence.

Throughout, the recordings capture the often challenging sound of the acoustic bass very well and, while there is plenty of bottom end, things don't ever get out of hand. (…), Upright Bass is well recorded, well played and represents a decent bang for your buck if you want a slice of genuine upright bass to build your next tune around.

John Walden