#TRILIAN VS SCARBEE PLUS#
Also onboard are a step sequencer and Free Modulation section (only one of these can be on display at any given time), plus an effects unit. Other features include a distortion stage, two filters of differing specifications and an amplifier section. The two oscillators share 16 of the same analogue-modelled waveforms, but here you also get 39 additional waveforms that are derived from pitched-down samples of various instruments. In terms of design, there are actually some similarities between SubBoomBass and Predator, another Papen production. Rob Papen has put his name to plenty of great synths - the sadly discontinued Albino 3, a co-production with LinPlug, was a particular favourite among electronic music producers - but while many of them are designed to be quite versatile, SubBoomBass, as its name suggests, is aimed very much at the low end. PC/Mac, VST/AU, £75 Rob Papen SubBoomBass NEXT: Rob Papen SubBoomBass Prev of 13 Next Prev of 13 Next Once you’ve done that, the good news is that there will almost certainly be a bass package out there that meets your requirements. As a user, the trick, as always, is to work out exactly what kind of sounds and editing features it is that you’re looking for.
#TRILIAN VS SCARBEE SOFTWARE#
In this round-up of bass-orientated software we’re going to be covering instruments that are powered by both synth- and sample-based engines, and there are also products that combine the two to create all-encompassing bass solutions.
![trilian vs scarbee trilian vs scarbee](https://c1.zzounds.com/media/productmedia/fit,2018by3200/quality,85/sidxl_player_big-b9121fa86e845c2396f043507f5ffff5.jpg)
For example, most offer a variety of performance articulations that make it possible for you to create basslines that sound like they’ve been played by an actual human being. Again, you might very well already own a sampler with patches that cover these, but a focused bass instrument has the potential to offer a greater level of realism. "There are a lot of excellent ‘all-rounder’ synths out there that are ideally suited to producing bludgeoning bass tones - but sometimes it’s useful to be able to call on a dedicated tool for the job."Īnd then there are electric and acoustic basses - ‘real instruments’, in other words. Not only can this deliver a slightly different kind of sound, but it might also offer some bass-specific features that will give you a more enjoyable editing and mixing experience. “I’ve got plenty that ‘do bass’ perfectly well already.” That may indeed be true - there are a lot of excellent ‘all-rounder’ synths out there that are ideally suited to producing bludgeoning bass tones - but sometimes it’s useful to be able to call on a dedicated tool for the job. “But why do I need a dedicated bass plugin at all?”, we hear you ask.
#TRILIAN VS SCARBEE SKIN#
However, there’s more than one way to skin a low-frequency cat and, accordingly, developers have taken different approaches to creating bass instruments, resulting in a surprisingly varied market. I don't know how Shreddage compares to other DI sampled electric guitar libraries, but it's worked wonderfully for me, it's basically like having 3-4 notably different guitars in your arsenal.There’s barely an instrument on the planet that hasn’t been emulated in software by now, so it should come as no great surprise to learn that bass-specific VST and AU plugins are plentiful. Helix provides a great selection pedals and amps, spanning everything from useful reverbs and delays to classic overdrives and distortions, choruses, wahs, hi-gain amps and clean amps and many things in between.
![trilian vs scarbee trilian vs scarbee](https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6L4PeHey0TQ/XSC-eTxYYyI/AAAAAAAATXU/LRX8Mxi9TioHBmXhWin1L7hITSulEzFqgCLcBGAs/s1600/Ample%2BSound%2BABU%2BIII%2BFull%2Bversion.png)
![trilian vs scarbee trilian vs scarbee](https://i2.wp.com/soundsandgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/scarbeeprebass.png)
Personally I've used Shreddage + line6 Helix Native. It will also be 100x more useful because you can actually dial in a variety of different guitar tones based on the pedal and amp plugins you get. This will give you far more realistic results (distortion fx depend on which combinations of notes are playing, and that's too much to sample properly. Then you would also shop for pedal and amp modeling plugins to use as fx plugins with the DI guitar sound. For electric guitar, you may want to consider getting a library that is sampled DI, not one that has samples with pre-baked amp and fx.