Virtual Bass VB-1

VB-1 Free Virtual Bass Sound Bank

VB-1 is a free rompler VST plugin developed by Steinberg. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

VB1 (first iteration of the paid product Virtual Bass 2) is full fledged electric bass guitar emulation sampler. Perfectly sampled and mapped, it will allow you to play and program bass guitar tracks with your keyboard, like it’s the real thing !

VB-1 is a virtual bass emulation with selectable pick position.

Features:

  • 4 voice polyphonic.
  • Damper, PickUp position, Pick position, & Wave Morph controls.
  • Responds to Pan.

http://www.steinberg.net/

SuperRiff Bass

SuperRiff Bass free rompler by SuperRiff

SuperRiff Bass is a free rompler VST plugin developed by SuperRiff. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

SuperRiff Bass is a simple VST instrument that contains a limited set of custom bass guitar samples for use in computer music production.

Features:

  • Volume, Pan, ADSR envelope controls and a subtle flanger unit.
  • 37 open string and 37 palm-muted string samples covering the full harmonic range of a 21 fret bass guitar tuned to E.
  • Sample types accessed through velocity editing or mod wheel control.
Made with SynthEdit

http://www.superriff.com/

Rickenbacker 4001

Rickenbacker 4001 free soundbank by The Control Centre

Rickenbacker 4001 virtual instrument is a free bass guitar and electric bass guitar sound bank for Live, by The Control Centre.

Rickenbacker 4001 is a free Instrument Rack for Ableton Live, featuring a multi-sampled Rickenbacker 4001 electric bass guitar. The pack includes 25 16-bit mono 44k mono WAV files (two octaves).

Rickenbacker 4001 requires Live 8.3 (or higher).

http://www.thecontrolcentre.com/

Raspier

Raspier free rompler by SpearGear

Raspier is a free rompler VST plugin developed by SpearGear. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

Raspier is a Bass Guitar VSTi for Windows.

Features:

  • String simulation – Uses modulation from the phase distortion oscillator as pick on guitar body. There are also two shape selectors.
  • LFO – 2 sine oscillators, and envelope.
  • Filter – Apart from master SV filter, there are optional Distortion, Smooth and Comparator filters.
  • Over 40 presets.
Made with SynthEdit

http://www.speargear.co.nr/

Pastabass

ZynAddSubFX free software-synthesizer by paulnasca 2

Pastabass virtual instrument is a free bass guitar sound bank for Sforzando, by Karoryfer.

Pastabass is a free sample library of a Squier Bass VI guitar recorded by KVR forum member Space Coyote and edited and mapped by Karoryfer Samples. The Bass VI was marketed as a bass in the 1960s, but in modern terminology it would be a baritone guitar rather than a bass.

Key features:

  • Spaghetti articulation – roundwound strings, played with a pick.
  • Linguine articulation – flatwound strings, bridge pickup, played with a pick.
  • Tagliatelle articulation – flatwound strings, pickup combo, played with a pick, muted.
  • Fetuccine articulation – flatwound strings, neck pickup, played with fingers.
  • 3-4 round robins and 3-4 velocity layers (depending on articulation).
  • Controls for release time, muting, high-pass filter and vibrato with speed, depth, delay and fade.
  • A separate SFZ mapping for each articulation plus one additional mapping with multiple voices and additional envelope and filter controls.
  • 711 MB total file size.
  • 621 MB download size.

Pastabass requires Plogue Sforzando version 1.809 or newer for all the controls to function.

The below demo uses four instances of Pastabass – one fetuccine playing the bass part, one spaghetti playing clean chords, one spaghetti with distortion, and one linguine first with autowah and then clean.

https://SoundCloud.com/karoryfersamples/pasta-of-laredo

http://www.karoryfer.com/karoryfer-samples

cesSynth4

cesSynth4 free rompler by LoftSoft

cesSynth4 is a free rompler VST plugin developed by LoftSoft. Compatible OS(s): macOS.

cesSynth4 is a Bass Guitar plug-in for Mac OS 9.

http://www.loftsoft.co.uk/

ABPL II

ABPL II free rompler by Ample Sound

ABPL II is a free rompler VST, Audio Unit, RTAS, AAX plugin developed by Ample Sound. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

mple Sound has released Ample Bass P Lite II (ABPL), a free “lite” version of ABP, recorded on a Fender Precision Bass.

Sampling:

  • DFD (Direct from disk).
  • Rich Fingering Noise – more vivid and realistic.
  • Each Cycle & Rhombic Sampling structure – Separate sample cycle for each note and velocity layer to improve sample utilization.

Technology:

  • New technology: Auto Buzz system.
  • CPC (Customized Parameters Control), any button knob etc can be controlled by MIDI CC or Automation.
  • Poly Legato.
  • Slide Smoother.
  • Open String First Function.
  • Manual vibrato wheel designed specifically for string instruments.
  • Capo – Transpose without need to modify midi.

Tab Player:

  • The Tab Player can load and play several prevalent guitarbass tablature file formats. Users can load, display and playback any specific track inside a tablature file. When used in DAWs, the Tab Player also allows users to export the tablature as an audio file.
  • The Tab Player supports all the fingering, looping, chords, articulations and other markers in the loaded tablature. Supported articulations include: Strum, Natural Harmonic, Artificial Harmonic, Hammer On/Pull Off, Trill, Bend, Tremolo Bar, Legato Slide, Slide In, Slide Out, Vibrato, Tremolo Picking, Palm Mute, Slapping, Popping, Tapping, Let Ring, Staccato, Dead Note, Grace Note, Ghost Note, Accentuated Note, Fade In, etc.
  • As a built-in function, the Tab Player works seamlessly with the Ample Sound instrument engine, which has extremely customized guitar playing logic so as to model a real world guitar being played. The Tab Player can even judge on its own to automatically add some refining articulations when it thinks it is appropriate, such as slapping on strings or body, or other realistic and indispensable noises.

https://www.amplesound.net/