- Publisher: Native Instruments
- Product: Session Bassist – Prime Bass
- Release: HiDERA
- Version: 1.0.1
- Requirements: KONTAKT version 6.7 and higher
PRIME BASS offers an authentic and playable experience with the essential low-end tone of an iconic single-coil electric bass guitar. Captured from an original 1981 cherry sunburst solid-body bass guitar, built in the USA, PRIME BASS provides over 350 playable patterns and phrases across a range of genres, allowing you to craft your own basslines and solo melodies effortlessly.
HARNESS THE PAST, INSPIRE THE FUTURE
With an abundance of riffs, loops, and melodies composed and performed by professional session musicians, PRIME BASS delivers everything you need to create soulful fingerstyle grooves, plectrum-picked pop basslines, snappy funk-infused slaps, and more.
ENTER A LOW-END TIME WARP
From the rowdiest rock pit to contemporary studios, the electric bass’s timeless sound defies genre and time. PRIME BASS allows you to explore the historic impact of this instrument while offering intuitive performance features to carve its future.
THE SOUND OF A DESIGN CLASSIC
Meticulously sampled to capture every nuance of performance, PRIME BASS features original single-coil pickups and a rosewood fingerboard, delivering authentic warmth, punch, and sustain to your compositions.
HONE YOUR TONE
With vintage-modeled tone control, transformer and tube saturation, and an array of microphone signals, guitar amps, cabinets, and effects, PRIME BASS lets you shape your sound to perfection.
ONE BASS. TWO INSTRUMENTS
PRIME BASS includes two dedicated instruments for patterns and melodies, covering a range of playing styles, techniques, and articulations.
DRAG AND DROP MIDI PATTERNS
Easily find and adapt patterns with over 350 MIDI patterns arranged across 81 song presets, and customize accents, swing, and humanize features to match your arrangement.
AUTHENTIC ARTICULATIONS
Covering fingers, plectrum, slaps, pops, open and muted notes, chromatic dead notes, harmonics, and more, PRIME BASS ensures authentic transitions and repetitions for a lifelike performance.
Instrument Type: KOMPLETE Instrument
For Use With: Free KONTAKT PLAYER version 6.7 and higher, or KONTAKT version 6.7 and higher.
Sound Category: Four-string electric bass guitar
Number of Sounds: 355 patterns, 81 songs