8Dio Basstard KONTAKT
Welcome to The Basstard, an instrument focused on recording the gradual destruction of a full-scale orchestral bass. The library contains four core categories of sounds: “Tonal”, “Percussive”, “FX” and “Grooves”.
The tonal category covers traditional multi-sampled articulations like plucked, staccato, rubber mallet on strings, regular drumstick on strings, fork on strings, and other tools that could be used for tonal sampling. The percussive category contains a variety of heavy round-robin based articulations, playing the instrument like a drum kit (containing 6-10 round robin articulations). The FX category has a gruesome number of effects such as bowing the bass with a baseball bat, using a power drill on the strings, recording sustained notes from it, and actually power-drilling the bass and reconfigureing the instrument, separating its neck from its body and essentially reassembling the instrument in horrible ways. The Groove category contains unique tempo-synched grooves recorded at several core tempos (80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140).
The result is a deep-sampled instrument that pushes the concept of orchestral bass into a more dark, gritty, percussive and disturbing territory.
Core articulations:
Basstard Tonal:
- Staccato
- Fork Buzz
- Rubber Grit
- Rubber Mallet
- Brushed Mallet
- Stick Mallet
- Soft/Wool Mallet
- Plucked
- Unplayable
- Harmonics
- Sustains from Hell (Found in FX folder)
Basstard Percussive:
- Brushed Percussion
- Sticked Percussion
- Rubber Mallet Percussion
- Master Patch (all perc included)
Basstard BPM/Tempo-Synced Grooves:
- 80 BPM (Native Tempo) Grooves
- 90 BPM (Native Tempo) Grooves
- 100 BPM (Native Tempo) Grooves
- 110 BPM (Native Tempo) Grooves
- 120 BPM (Native Tempo) Grooves
- 130 BPM (Native Tempo) Grooves
- 140 BPM (Native Tempo) Grooves
Additional features:
Basstard FX (30 different multi-sampled FX types):
- Rapture
- Slides
- FX Kit Short
- FX Kit Long
- Unplayable Ambience
- Dead Space
- Organ
- Horrific FX
- Drill (Power-Drill)
- Bowed Destruction
- Bowed Whale
- Rattling Strings
- Strange Harmonics
- Slammed in Velocity
- Broken Music Box
- Relentless
- Drilled Ambience
- Arcade From Hell
- Long Riser
- Sustained Bowed
- Sustains from Hell
Full Retail version of Kontakt 5.8.1 or later required
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