2008 Winter NAMM Show Update: EastWest introduced Chris Hein Bass - 12.7 GB of bass sounds, some of which feature the powerful tones of a Music Man StingRay electric-bass-both picked and slapped; a LeFay fretless bass as well as the sounds of a unique upright bass.
For variety, the upright bass is played with three [...]

Vir2 Instruments has introduced two new virtual instruments - Elite Orchestral Percussion and BASiS.
Elite Orchestral Percussion offers 19 gigabytes of sterling orchestral percussion with a sophisticated script engine, and BASiS fills the low end with a large collection of electric, upright, fretless, and synth basses.
Elite Orchestral Percussion
Vir2 Instruments’ Elite Orchestral Percussion is a  19GB library [...]

Scarbee has released Black Bass, a sample library made for N.I. Kontakt 2.2.
Black Bass is produced and recorded by Scarbee director Thomas Hansen Skarbye himself and developed together with Kontakt script wizard Nils Liberg to create a highly playable instrument for musicians, composers, and producers looking for a unique bass sound.
“I wanted to record [...]

Jayzen Sound Design has introduced Jayzen Acoustic Bass, a sample library, in Soundfont format, that captures that “old time sound” from a large, 1950’s era stand-up acoustic bass. According to Jayzen, it can be used to recreate those Bass sounds heard on Country and Rock albums of the late 1950’s, or for modern Acid Jazz [...]

Cakewalk has released Cakewalk Studio Instruments, designed to be an easy-to-use and affordable consumer software instrument collection for Mac and PC. Cakewalk Studio Instruments has an estimated street price of $49.99.
Cakewalk Studio instruments provides a Drum Kit, Bass Guitar, Electric Piano, and String Section that can be played stand alone or can compliment popular consumer [...]

De la Mancha has released a new version of their free Subhuman VST synth for Windows, Version 2.0.
Description:
Subhuman is a simple 2 Osc synth for creating low down and dirty sub bass, jus’ like momma used to make. They say you can take it down a few octaves for that deep subby hum you [...]

 

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PowerFX hasreleased 2 new titles, Electro-House from SampleMagic and Elektro House Producer from Loopmasters, to provide producers and digital music makers with an arsenal of loops and samples for this popular club music style:

Electro-House contains over 900 files of hypnotic tech-funk that will captivate any dance floor.
Elektro House Producer is an up to the minute [...]

A light version of Realsamples’ Slap Bass Collection is now available for free download. The site is auf Deutsch, so look for the Hier klicken link.
Realsamples’ Slap Bass Collection contains 2.5 GB of samples of a Warwick Streamer electric bass, recorded directly through a Mindprint DTC high quality channel-strip.
In contrast to conventional sample CDs, this [...]

ChocolateAudio, which has just about the coolest name ever, has announced Mock Bass, advanced electric bass library with just about the coolest name ever, too.
The Mock Bass is sampled from a luthier’s custom made electric bass made by Jacaranda, and includes the latest sampling technologies, featuring four string, automatic string switching, fret position selection, intelligent [...]

Puremagnetik has released Analog Bass Volume 1 for Live 6, Kontakt 2 and EXS24. Analog Bass is a large collection of over 50 multisampled analog bass instruments, recorded directly from classic monosynths. Among the sound sources are TB-303, Minimoog, Doepfer Modular and ARP 2600. Puremagnetik has captured the classic character of these instruments and customized [...]

IK Multimedia and Sonic Reality have announced their latest collaborative effort, Sonik Instruments, a series of virtual instrument plug-ins dedicated to focused collections of rare and top-of-the-line instruments and sounds. The first announced of this series are SampleMoog, SampleTron, and Studiophonik.
Each of these Sonik Instruments offers a full synth-sampler engine powered by SampleTank with an [...]

Pettinhouse has introduced the DirectBass Bass Sample Library for AMP SIMULATOR.
Recorded directly to the sound card without any amplifier or EFX at 24Bit 96Khz, when combined with an Bass Amp Simulator, it allows you to create any variety of bass sounds.
3 pick-ups: Bridge, Both and Neck plus Picked Bass for covering the entire range of [...]

Modern Beats has introduced its first electric bass sample library, Tru Bass 1 - Electric Six. The entire bass library is 425MB in size and contains over 500 unique, bass guitar samples. ‘Tru Bass 1′ comes in 6 auto-loading software sampler formats plus WAV file format. This sample-packed, multi-velocity layered soundset features a rich, smooth, [...]

EastWest has introduced Quantum Leap Ministry of Rock, a huge 18 gigabyte collection of rock drums, basses and guitars recorded in EASTWEST Studio 2, featured on countless platinum and gold records.
Ministry of Rock was created with one goal in mind: to create a virtual instrument capable of producing sounds that can actually produce a hit [...]

Line 6 announced at Winter NAMM the Floor POD Plus, the latest addition to their POD line. Floor POD Plus offers all the features of the studio-standard POD 2.0, along with additional premium effects in a road-ready floor pedal with real time foot controls.
Floor POD Plus can be used as a multi-effect unit in front [...]