We developed the library in collaboration with Rosewood Recording Company, one of Utah’s most respected recording studios. Guy Randle, the company’s owner and engineer, used a lot of analog gear to record the work, including a Neotek analog console, tube preamps, vintage compressors, and other classics. We captured the original direct bass signal, as well as a boosted signal that adds bite and increases richness and sustain.
The samples were performed by seasoned bassist Bill Cushenberry. Originally from Burbank, California, his musical career began at an early age and has taken him around the world. Bill has spent many years touring and recording in the West, including with The Osmonds and Donny & Marie. He plays a variety of bass guitars, but this bass has been his personal favorite for over forty years.
Evolution Roundwound Bass is based on our Evolution engine, which gives you a ton of power: flexible mapping, customizable tone and playback parameters, and a powerful set of effects. The library contains a variety of ready-to-use presets of classic and modern bass tones that fit perfectly into a mix.
- Onboard effects engine for instant access to bass tones
- Adjustable pick position using our proprietary physical modeling technology
- Powerful mapping system that lets you define how articulations are triggered using parameters like velocity ranges, MIDI CCs, latched and non-latched key switches, and more
- 21.9GB of samples (compressed to 9.9GB using the lossless NCW audio format)
- Articulations like sustain, palm mute, mute, and natural harmonics available in both pick and finger modes, plus effects like slap, slide, and more
- MIDI articulations for instant octaves, grace notes, trills, whole-step slides, whole-step hammer-ons, and velocity- and tempo-locked slides
- Legato samples for slides, hammer-ons, and pull-offs
- Sampled in 3 dynamics and 4 circular repeats
- NKS support
Orange Tree Samples has released update 1.2.5 for all Evolution-based instruments.
Here’s what’s new:
- Ability to lock individual tunings and articulations, allowing you to switch snapshot presets without overwriting specific tunings and mapped articulations. Note that the old “Lock Mapping” setting has now been removed. If you were relying on this setting in any existing projects, the new version will automatically convert them to use the individual locking settings.
- New setting: “Performance Effect Keys”, allowing you to control the range of keys that performance effects are mapped to.
- New setting for Evolution Bluegrass Banjo: “Drone String in All Chords”, allowing you to include the drone string in any chord voicing, or exclude it from chord voicings that don’t include its pitch as a chord tone.
- Improved fretboard display efficiency.
- Changed legato pitch and range settings to semitones instead of interval names.
- Fixed a heap memory issue when unmapping a sustain articulation, but try using one of the MIDI based articulations like slides.
- Fixed a bug that affected the velocity slide articulation when combined with a sustain pedal press condition.
- Capo position now modulates the custom chord voicing selection.
- Open string legato mode now allows not only pull-offs to open strings, but also hammer-ons from open strings to higher notes on the fretboard.
- Added tooltips.