ELBySoniQ has announced the release of ’62 Pbass GrooveMachine – Soulplayer One, a hybrid instrument library for Native Instruments Kontakt featuring the retro sound of a custom ’62 Fender Pbass.

ELBySoniQ '62 Pbass GrooveMachine - SP1

ELBySoniQ introduce you to the ‘62 Pbass Groove Machine Soulplayer One from the Groove Machine Series, a 1.95Gb NI Kontakt loop library, recorded with a customized Fender® P-bass, played between the bridge and the pickup to give the sound more bite and darkness. The bass guitar is equipped with a swamp ash body, LaBella flatwound strings, vintage dual coil SPB-1 pickup and string dampers for a sustain-less punchy tone.

The theme of the loop library from the Groovemachine series is about the sound and the type of loop patterns. The majority of these loops are basic building block loops, which should be used for playing progressions and or broken loop patterns by playing it like single notes. You can use it creatively to create different patterns in combination with the other loop patterns which could end up till over 30.000 combinations.

This loop library fits in genres such as pop and soul and can also be used as songwriting tool and for inspiration. All the key switches could be automatized by your midi sequencer in your preferred DAW.

’62 Pbass GrooveMachine – SP1 features

  • 1.92 Gb uncompressed in aif format.
  • 974 stereo samples (665 samples are loop patterns) 24 bits, 44.1 kHz.
  • Automatic sync to host bpm tempo.
  • Recorded in 12 keys.
  • 55 select-able groove patterns via dropdown menu’s.
  • 2 octave sustained single note section ranging from Low E to E3.
  • Transition note section also in 12 keys ranging from Low E to D#1.
  • Hammer-on in the velocity range 123..127 in the sustained note section.
  • 4 round robin one finger note attack harmonics.
  • 3 round robin one finger note stop harmonics.
  • Bass tone shaping and saturation FX with on/off buttons.
  • Frontpanel for engaging Cabinet, Compressor and Chorus with on/off button.
  • FX interface with adjustable knobs for Cabinet, Compressor and Chorus.

The ’62 Pbass GrooveMachine – SP1 for Kontakt is available for purchase for the introductory price of 45.50 EUR / $59.90 USD (regular 68.75 EUR / $89 USD).

Visit ELBySoniQ for more information.