8Dio Basstard [KONTAKT]

Bass Sampled to Destruction 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. Walkthrough Spoiler show/hide text 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 Requirements : - Full Retail version of Kontakt 5.8.1 or later required - Not compatible with the Free Kontakt player - The Basstard requires 2GB of hard drive space - Minimum: Mac OS X® 10.4 / 10.5, G5 2.0 GHz or Intel Core Duo 2.00 GHz, 4 GB RAM or Windows® XP (32 Bit) or Windows Vista® (32/64 Bit), Pentium® or Athlon XP 2.0 GHz, 4 GB RAM. 4 GB of RAM or more is highly recommended