Native Instruments Scarbee Rickenbacker Bass V1.2.0Full Crack Here!

Native Instruments Scarbee Rickenbacker Bass V1.2.0 Full Crack Here!

I can’t deny a frisson of eager anticipation whenever Native Instruments release a virtual instrument with the Scarbee branding. Scarbee has already produced three excellent virtual bass guitars: J-Bass, Pre-Bass, and MM-Bass (Jazz, Precision, and Music Man). All are eminently playable, extremely expressive, and uncannily realistic. These particular models of bass often crop up in sample libraries and virtual instruments, though for some reason the Rickenbacker is a comparative rarity. The Rockies have provided the signature sound of bassists across a hugely diverse range of musical styles, from Bruce Foxton of the Jam to Chris Squire of Yes; their throaty, almost guitar-like tone is instantly recognizable and remains the definitive bass sound for many progressive rock bassists. It was only a matter of time before someone would redress the balance, and as a fully paid-up prog rocker, I couldn’t be more pleased that Scarbee has risen to the challenge.

Overview:

Scarbee’s Rickenbacker Bass Crack (SRB) expands on their existing virtual basses with a posh new GUI, built-in effects, and some welcome improvements to the KSP scripting. It’s the first Scarbee bass to have been played with a pick rather than fingers, so it’s tonally very different from their previous bass products. The model sampled for SRB was a 4003, with Rotosound Swing Bass 66 round-wound strings providing that characteristic ‘Ricky’ wiry top end. SRB is provided as two separate .nki instruments in two flavors, Palm Muted and undamped. The Palm Mute instrument simulates the effect of using the damper bar on the tailpiece of the original bass, (removed by the majority of Ricky players!) and favored by country and western players. Although muted, the sound still has plenty of body and sustain, with a pronounced pick attack. A good example is Paul McCartney’s bass sound on ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’— this was reputedly a damped Ricky 4001 with flat-wound strings. Conversely, the undamped Rickenbacker Basslets rip with unrestrained gutsy power, long sustain, a rich low end, and tons of high-, mid-and top-end detail, enabling SRB to cut effortlessly through the densest of heavy rock mixes.

Performance Controls:

Like Scarbee’s other basses, SRB uses KSP scripting to take care of string selection and up/down strokes automatically. But if SRB’s ‘intelligent’ choices aren’t to your taste, they can be manually overridden at any time via non-latching key switches. So, for example, if you’d prefer that open G to be played on the A string with an upward stroke, it can be forced to do so. While the most frequently used articulations (sustain, hammer-on, pull-off, grace notes) are available directly from the playable keys, additional key switched articulations, such as trills, buzz trills, mutes, and pickup claps, are also provided. The scripting for trills and buzz trills has been considerably improved from previous Scarbee basses, which offered only short trills of preset speed and length. On SRB, the player can now perform trills and buzz trills at their own speed, for as long as desired. A ‘Force Hammer-on/off’ key switch also enables hammer-ons, normally invoked by overlapping two notes a semitone or tone apart, to be ‘forced’ across much wider intervals, as long as they’re within the range of the currently playing string. SRB can play polyphonically up to four notes (obviously!), but the Sustain key switch renders SRB monophonic, and simultaneously functions like a traditional sustain pedal, useful for keeping repetitive eighth-notes sounding ‘connected’. The sustain pedal itself (CC64) is used in conjunction with consecutive overlapping notes to produce legato string slides: an essential articulation for creating the illusion of a real bass. The legato slides were sampled at three speeds, the choice of which is determined by the key velocity.

Sound Shaping & Effects:

SRB’s neck and bridge pickup selector, volume, and tone control alone provide a dramatic range of tonal variations, from full treble proggy excess to warm, dub-style plumpness. Either or both pickups can be selected, and, true to the original instrument, a ‘Rick-O-Sound’ switch engages both pickups, panning the bridge pickup hard right and the neck pickup hard left. Some Rickenbacker players use this facility to process the sound of each pickup through separate amps, and SRB makes the same practice possible in a DAW environment.

In a departure from previous Scarbee basses, SRB takes advantage of Kontakt 5’s suite of effects to further shape the sound. On offer are an amp simulator (Kontakt 5’s new Jump model), a choice of seven cabinets, tape saturation, and the SSL-modelled compressor and equalizer. The GUI for the compressor and equalizer offers a reduced set of controls: attack, threshold, and makeup gain for the compressor, and four fixed frequency bands for the EQ. However, there’s nothing to stop you from going ‘under the hood and tweaking the full range of parameters for those effects if you feel the urge! Each effect is individually switchable, and all pickup and effect knobs and switches, including each effect’s on/off status, can be assigned MIDI controllers via the usual ‘MIDI Learn’ procedure.

SRB includes its own integral preset library. Both the undamped and palm-muted instruments share identical sets of 25 factory presets that ably demonstrate the sonic range this instrument can produce with no external plug-in assistance. The benefit of both instruments sharing a common library is that tonal consistency is assured if you have undamped and palm-muted versions loaded together and wish to feature both playing styles in the same piece. Users can, of course, save their own presets, and for the reason I’ve just mentioned, a preset copy function would have been handy for transferring user presets from one instrument type to the other.

THE BASS
To create SCARBEE RICKENBACKER® BASS, a Rickenbacker® 4003 with stainless-steel Rotosound strings was recorded directly into Professional Instruments with premium Mogami cables and a Metric Halo LIO-Eight preamp, assuring each nuance of this legendary bass got here by means of in pristine high quality.

Picked articulations out there for the primary time in a SCARBEE bass present the crisp tone heard on numerous rock and pop information for the reason that 60s. Avoiding Rickenbacker®’s built-in foam muting system, palm-muted articulations have been created with the choice hand positioned over the bridge, making certain the realism of real efficiency. Openly picked articulations have been performed between the pickups, and each has been recorded utilizing the distinctive Rick-O-Sound stereo output for the traditional Rickenbacker® tone.

HEART OF TONE
A novel KONTAKT impact chain provides the ultimate element to this approved Rickenbacker® instrument with the newly carried out Leap Amp from guitar RIG for excessive tweak ability, and tape saturator, equalizer, and compressor from the solid MIX SERIES for professional studio results.

A BASS ODYSSEY
SCARBEE RICKENBACKER® BASS relies on the Rickenbacker® 4003, launched in 1980 because of the successor to the 4001 mannequins that had been in constant use since 1960. Already well-known as a ‘combine sitter’ in opposition to a wall of guitars, the 4003 drastically improved the bass response of the 4001’s neck pickup to provide it the balanced tonal response it has change into well-known for. The crisp, thunderous tone of those basses has been immortalized on a number of the most profitable rock and pop albums in the historical past, and now it’s at your fingertips.

SCARBEE AND NATIVE INSTRUMENTS
Thomas Skarbye is an extremely regarded bassist whose sound design model has change into synonymous with high quality and playability. His sampled devices have change into the primary selection of prime producers and musicians worldwide. To assist create this Rickenbacker™-approved instrument, Thomas as soon as once more introduced in Nils Liberg – the identical scripting wizard behind SCARBEE FUNK GUITARIST, ALICIA’S KEYS, and SCARBEE MM BASS.

The Scarbee and Native Instruments partnership has launched quite a few instrument libraries for the industry-leading sampler KONTAKT and the free KONTAKT PLAYER. With SCARBEE’s famed precision and degree of element, producers can count on a line of premium devices throughout the musical spectrum.

Conclusion:

If a sampled bass can capture the imagination and provide hours of pleasure through simply being played on its own, it must have something going for it. SRB is very easy to get to grips with and a real delight to play. The sound can be best described as having the joy and playfulness of a bouncing ball; it drives a track along with great authority and its tone seems to fill the frequency spectrum, yet it has the magical ability to leave other instruments in the mix plenty of room to breathe. It sits proudly, but never clouds the picture. Scarbee’s tried and trusted implementation is further enhanced by the built-in effects, obviating the need for external plug-ins to sculpt the sound, although that option is always open to you and, indeed, a good bass-amp simulator extends the sonic possibilities even further. I wish there was space here to describe SRB’s other minutiae, such as the release samples, controllable neck position, fret noises, scrape offsets, and round robins. Nevertheless, I look forward with eager anticipation to Scarbee’s next product; personally, I’d vote for a Rickenbacker electric 12-string.