I haven’t been able to upload my jazz pieces because when I open those sessions and hit play I hear the awful hollow “jazz bass” factory samples that come with my DAW, and it just ruins my day.
What’s your favorite upright bass sampler library that you’d recommend for jazz (1)?
(1) I write simple, mostly walking bass-type of lines, but I do make heavy use of dynamics, and really long notes.
What’s your favorite upright bass sampler library that you’d recommend for jazz (1)?
Spectrasonic’s Trilogy is good and Gigastudio’s upright bass stuff is decent, but you’ll quickly get used to the sound and want something different (as least I did!).
The defunct NI Kore Player has some good upright coming with it’s factory selection. The software is dropped from future development, so, officially as product is no available anymore. Still, NI has it for free download here:
Hey, just discovered the NI Kore Player Upright bass Mihai mentioned a few days ago and used it today on a new piece. Like it very much. Very nice bottom.
Trilian is also my first choice.
If your DAW or soft samplers can handle the EXS24 format, i could share some self collected / sampled / processed upright bass samples. They are not “usual” and clean sounding, but more gnarly and creacky