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The Control Centre has announced its Spirit Bass Ableton Live Instrument Rack.

An Instrument Rack for Ableton Live featuring a multi-sampled Steinberger Spirit bass guitar. Requires Live 8.3 or higher.

Spirit Bass features

• 31 Samples, 24bit WAV (56 MB content).
• Recorded with NI Audio Kontrol 1, Wavelab.

The Spirit Bass sound library is available to purchase for $5 USD.

More information: The Control Centre / Spirit Bass

Dan Dean has announced the release of the Dan Dean Basses Advanced series of sample libraries.

Dan Dean Basses Advanced

• 9 new basses.
• A huge number of samples, as many as 1,461 per instrument.
• Meticulously sampled using our Accusample™ technology.
• 24 bit recordings.
• 4 round robins per note.
• “Supertuned” using Peterson Strobosoft™.
• A wide assortment of amplifiers via both IR and using Kontakt’s built in tools.
• Highest Quality at affordable prices $59 per instrument.
• In Kontakt format.

Dan Dean also introduced DDSSA Acoustic Bass Expansion, a new addition to the Dan Dean Solo Strings Advanced (DDSSA) series.

Acoustic Bass Expansion features

• 24 bit ultra quiet sampling in Stereo.
• Hand selected front end components – Mics, Special Cabling, Mic Preamps.
• New NV Presets.
• New “C Extension” extended range in selected presets (C1, C#1, D1, D#1).
• High Definition, High Detail recordings.
• In Native Instruments Kontakt 4 Format.
• Articulations for each – Solo Acoustic Bass, 2 Basses and 4 Basses: Arco NV (with C Extension notes C1, C#1, D1, D#1), Arco V, Spicatto (with C Extension notes C1, C#1, D1, D#1), Pizzicato, Tremelo, Trill half step, Trill whole step.

More information: Dan Dean Productions

Orange Tree Samples has released Cherry Electric Bass, a sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt.

We’ve combined the most common bass playing techniques–fingered, muted fingered, picked, muted picked, and slapped articulations–into a detailed, easy-to-use solution for virtual bass. We sampled the five-string bass all the way down to its low B string, giving you plenty of room in the low notes. The bass was sampled directly from its output jack (DI), giving you the freedom of applying your own EQ, compressor, and other effects. Even completely dry, the bass has a full, deep tone, and easily fits right into any mix.

Cherry Electric Bass has over 2.5 GB of samples (compressed via Kontakt’s lossless NCW compression to 1.4 GB), powered by extensive scripting to maximize these samples, not only making the sample library ultra-realistic, but very playable and easy to sequence with. Whether you’re sequencing the bass track note by note or performing it live from a MIDI keyboard, the combination of high quality samples and extensive scripting makes your bass track sound like a live bassist.

Cherry Electric Bass features

• Over 2.5 GB of 24-bit samples (compressed to 1.4 GB using Kontakt’s lossless NCW compression).
• Sampled down to a low B.
• Up to 8x round-robin.
• Automatic hammer-on, pull-off, slide up, slide down legato articulations.
• Customizable mapping system that allows you to map the articulations by velocity, controller, keyswitch, or whichever method you prefer.
• Lots of effects, such as slides, muted notes, fret noises, string slaps, and much more.

Cherry Electric Bass for Kontakt 4/5 is available to purchase for the introductory price of $99 USD until February 29th at 11:59 PM PST (regular $129 USD). Owners of the discontinued CoreBass Cherry sample libraries are eligible for a special upgrade discount.

More information: Orange Tree Samples / Cherry Electric Bass

Loopmasters has released Funk Bass, a collection of bass loops and patches by UK-based composer and bass virtuoso Keith Holden.

Funk Bass is not just another ordinary bass loop package. This is a collection of professional high-quality loops, featuring some of the most fresh and unique bass sounds available. If you are looking for a real instrument sound that will give your composition an organic groove then this is for you!

All loops were recorded using Overwater basses 4 and 5 string (High C). The performances feature both slap and finger style funk bass, inspired by players such as Jaco Pastorius, Stanley Clarke, Randy Jackson, Marcus Miller, Victor Wooten and Mark King.

Funk Bass weighs in at 382MB and includes 355 24 Bit samples, with 340 loops at 110-120 BPM, plus 15 One Shot Bass Samples. Also included is 1 ready to play patch for Halion, Kontakt, EXS, SFZ and Reason NNXT soft samplers. Apple Loops are also available to purchase separately.

Funk Bass is currently available to purchase for £11.96 GBP (20% off regular £14.95 GBP).

More information: Loopmasters / Funk Bass

Tonebytes has announced the release of Bundle 2012, a limited time discount on a collection of all Tonebytes plug-ins.

From 15 Dec 2011 to 15 Jan 2012 get all the plugins for only $30 in one bundle that includes:

• Reese Machine, a monophonic subtractive synthesizer optimized for creating deep, rich, vibrating bass for various kinds of electronic music, especially Drum’n’Bass, Speed Garage, Techstep, etc.
• Vocotron, combines the functions of a sampler and vocoder.
• Wowcoder, recreates a classical 16-band digital vocoder.
• Analog Noise, adds the sound and atmosphere of analog recordings to your tracks and mixes.
• Bend Box, software synthesizer that emulates a circuit-bending device.
• Get Lost, Singer! virtual effect plug-in which allows you to remove vocals from songs.
• Pedals, effect plug-in designed for processing electric guitar and bass.

More information: Tonebytes

Impact Soundworks has announced the release of Shreddage Bass: Picked Edition, a sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt.

Following the success of our Shreddage and Shreddage X guitar libraries, we’ve received countless requests for a rock & metal bass library. Rather than settle for a simple instrument limited in genre, we decided to go further and create a deep-sampled, versatile bass sample library with intuitive mapping and easy-to-mix tone. Shreddage Bass: Picked Edition is the culmination of our efforts and the suggestions of our customers.

The DI tone of this library is thick and full, but sits well in any mix. The built-in scripted interface has a three-band EQ customized for sweet spots, allowing the user to customize the tone further combined with the built-in compression, amp and limiter. These features enable Shreddage Bass: PE to be used for not just rock & metal, but dance, pop, jazz, funk, disco and everything in between. We covered all the vital articulations in our usual depth: open notes, mutes, staccatos, hammer-ons, pull-offs and slides were recorded with up to 8x round robins (up and down strokes) plus three dynamic layers.

Despite having over 2,000 samples and a wealth of possible playing styles, Shreddage Bass: PE is easy to use with a left hand/right hand mapping style that does not require keyswitches, MIDI CCs or pedal control. Plus, the scripting engine, which supports things like customizable legato, anti-repetition, automatic octaves and a downstrokes-only mode, is not CPU-intensive making this instrument light on resources but not on tone!

Shreddage Bass: Picked Edition for Kontakt 4+ is available to purchase for $59 USD. Through December 2011, existing Shreddage users can crossgrade for $39 USD.

New users can purchase the library as part of a bundle that includes both original Shreddage libraries plus our Acoustic Revolutions volume 1 acoustic guitar collection for $99 USD until December 31, 2011.

More information: Impact Soundworks / Shreddage Bass: Picked Edition