Bassesland

Virtual Electric, Acoustic and Synth Bass

Audio Unit, VST and VST3 Plugins for Mac

Bassesland is a virtual bass that emulates a wide range of sounds of electric, acoustic and synthesizer basses. Available for macOS as plugin in Audio Unit (.component), VST (.vst) and VST3 (.vst3) formats.

The sounds ranging from several electric bass guitars, including harmonics, slides, slaps, muted, wah effect and fills, going by an upright acoustic double bass, an electro acoustic bass to synth bass emulations based on vintage synthesizer like ARP 2600, Clavia Nord Lead, Kawai K3, Korg 01/W, Minilogue, MS2000, Memorymoog, Micromoog 2090, Minimoog Model D, Little Phatty, Minitaur, Prodigy, System 55, Taurus Bass Pedal, Oberheim OB-Xa, OSC OSCar, Roland Juno-60, Juno-106, JX-3P, JX-8P, MC-909, TB-303 and Yamaha DX7.

The Audio Unit Component, VST and VST3 plug-ins requires of a MIDI Controller to play this virtual instrumentof and a compatible host, digital audio workstation (DAW) or MIDI sequencer that supports Audio Units and VST technology. They can be "plugged in" to process audio by applications such as Logic Pro, GarageBand, Cubase, Ableton Live, REAPER, Studio One Professional, Ardour, MainStage and Digital Performer among others.

The software package is distributed via Internet in an Apple Disk Image DMG file and compatible with macOS and all previous OS X.

Features 

• Quick selector to switch between different preset sounds:

# List of Preset Sounds / Demo ↓ 1 Upright Acoustic Double Bass 2 Upright Acoustic Double Bass (Pizzicato) 3 Electro Acoustic Bass 4 Picked Electric Bass and Harmonics 5 Fingered Electric Bass and Harmonics 6 Fretless Electric Bass 7 Jazz Electric Bass 8 Funk Groove Electric Bass 9 Fuzz Overdrive Electric Bass 10 Wah Electric Bass 11 Muted Electric Bass 12 Slapped Electric Bass 13 Bass Slides 14 Bass Slides and Fills 15 ARP 2600 Bass 16 Clavia Nord Lead Acid Bass 17 Kawai K3 Reso Bass 18 Korg 01/W Bass Suite 19 Korg 01/W Xpress Bass 20 Korg Minilogue Dirty Bass 21 Korg MS2000 Synth Bass 22 Memorymoog Bass 23 Micromoog 2090 Bass 24 Minimoog Model D Bass 25 Moog Little Phatty MoogPerc 26 Moog Minitaur Reso Bass 27 Moog Prodigy Bass 28 Moog System 55 Modular Synth 29 Moog Taurus 1 Bass Pedal 30 Moog Taurus 2 Bass Pedal 31 Moog Taurus 3 Bass Pedal 32 Oberheim OB-Xa Buzz Bass 33 OSC OSCar Bass 34 Roland Juno-60 Sub-Bass 35 Roland Juno-106 Fat Bass 36 Roland JX-3P Juicy Funk 37 Roland JX-8P Synth Bass 38 Roland MC-909 Acid Bass 39 Roland TB-303 Bass Line 40 Yamaha DX7 Velo Bass

• Tremolo Section: The low-frequency oscillator knobs apply modulation to the selected instrument. By using the LFO to modulate various aspects of the audio signal, you can apply effects such as vibrato or tremolo to a huge variety of acoustic, electric and synthetic emulations available. Enabling 'Destination' by selecting 'Panning' mode applies a rhythmic variation in amplitude in the stereo field.

Ø Rate: This knob controls the frequency. Turn clockwise for a faster modulation rate.
Ø Depth: This knob controls the amplitude. With a lower setting, the resulting modulation is subtle, while a higher depth will result in a much more extreme effect.

The following combo boxes settings adds motion or variability to sounds:

Ø WaveForm: Switches between ‘Triangle’, ‘Sine’, ‘Saw’, ‘Square’ and ‘Exponential’ waveforms.
Ø Source: Switches between ‘Modulation Wheel’, ‘Aftertouch’ and ‘Velocity’.
Ø Destination: Switches between ‘Pitch’, ‘Expression’ and ‘Pan’ modulation.

       

• ADSR envelope generator with Attack, Sustain, Decay and Release parameters:

Ø Attack determines the time it takes for the note to get to the maximum level.
Ø Decay determines the time it takes for the note to go from the maximum level to the sustain level (controlled by Sustain).
Ø Sustain determines the level of the sound is played at while the note is held (after the other envelope states, Attack and Decay, have been completed).
Ø Release determines the time it takes for the note to fall from the sustain level to zero (silence) level when it is released.

• Pitch Bend: The Pitch Bend knob directly changes the pitch of the selected instrument.

Ø Pitch Bend center position: is normal pitch.
Ø Pitch Bend down: Specifies the amount of pitch change that will occur when the pitch bend/modulation lever is moved to the left.
Ø Pitch Bend up: Specifies the amount of pitch change that will occur when the pitch bend/modulation lever is moved the right.

• Reverb built-in: provides a spaciousness and depth to simulate the sound reflections from walls, floors and ceilings following a sound created in an acoustically reflective environment. Small rooms can be modeled as well as large spaces.

• Filter Type. Combo box to switch between the following options:

Ø Low Pass (LPF): a filter that passes signals with a frequency lower than a certain cutoff frequency and attenuates signals with frequencies higher than the cutoff frequency.
Ø High Pass (HPF): a filter that passes signals with a frequency higher than a certain cutoff frequency and attenuates signals with frequencies lower than the cutoff frequency.
Ø None: No filter is applied. 
Ø Cutoff Frequency Filter: Sets the cutoff frequency for the low pass and high pass filters.

• Amplitude Range Parameters: It controls the loudness, the way in which we perceive amplitude.The sensitivity level is set by the user:

Ø Amplitude range (low) - sets amplitude range, lower bound (dB) 
Ø Amplitude range (high) - sets amplitude range, upper bound (dB)

• Volume: Adjusts the volume of the instrument.

• Panning potentiometer control: Set the panning of the instrument. Adjusts the stereo pan position of the signal output, which determines how much of signal is sent to the left and right channels.

• Spatial auralization: Synthesizer emulations brings a stereophonic sound panning to increase the audible perspective, even without using the built-in reverberation or LFO pan effect.

• MIDI CC Automation: Implementation of MIDI Continuous Controller parameters for use with external hardware control via DAW, such as: LFO depth (CC#1), expression (CC#11), volume (CC#7), pan (CC#10), balance (CC#8), filter cutoff (CC#74), ADSR (Attack: CC#73, Decay: CC#75, Sustain: CC#76, Release: CC#72) and reverb depth (CC#91).

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