Welcome to The New Basstard, a multi-sampled instrument focused on recording the gradual destruction of a full-scale orchestral bass. The library contains four core categories of sounds: “Tonal”, “Percussive”, “FX” and “Grooves”.
The tonal category covers more traditional multi-sampled articulations like plucked, staccato, rubber mallet on strings, regular drumstick on strings, fork on strings and other tools that could be used for tonal sampling. The percussive category contains a variety of heavy round-robin based articulations playing the instrument like a drum kit (containing 6-10 round robin articulations). The FX category has a gruesome amount of FX made with anything from bowing bass with baseball bat, using a power drill on the strings and recording sustained notes from it – to actually power-drilling the bass and reconfigure the instrument – separating its neck from its body and essentially reassemble the instrument in horrible ways. The Groove category contains unique tempo-synched BPM-based grooves recorded at several core tempos (80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140).
The end result is a deep-sampled instrument that pushes the concept of orchestral bass into a more dark, gritty, percussive and disturbing territory.
Core Articulations
Basstard Tonal:
Staccato
Fork Buzz
Rubber Grit
Rubber Mallet
Brushed Mallet
Stick Mallet
Soft/Wool Mallet
Plucked
Unplayable
Harmonics
Sustains from Hell (Found in FX folder)
Basstard Percussive:
Brushed Percussion
Sticked Percussion
Rubber Mallet Percussion
Master Patch (all perc included)
Basstard BPM/Tempo-Synced Grooves:
80 BPM (Native Tempo) Grooves
90 BPM (Native Tempo) Grooves
100 BPM (Native Tempo) Grooves
110 BPM (Native Tempo) Grooves
120 BPM (Native Tempo) Grooves
130 BPM (Native Tempo) Grooves
140 BPM (Native Tempo) Grooves
Additional Features
Basstard FX (30 different multi-sampled FX types):
Rapture
Slides
FX Kit Short
FX Kit Long
Unplayable Ambience
Dead Space
Organ
Horrific FX
Drill (Power-Drill)
Bowed Destruction
Bowed Whale
Rattling Strings
Strange Harmonics
Slammed in Velocity
Broken Music Box
Relentless
Drilled Ambience
Arcade From Hell
Long Riser
Sustained Bowed
Sustains from Hell
Requirements:
Full Retail version of Kontakt 5.6 or later required
Kontakt 5.6+ is 32 and 64-bit compatible with both PC and MAC platforms
The New Basstard requires 2GB of hard drive space
Runs as a stand-alone application, VST® or Audio Units plug-in, RTAS® under Pro Tools 7/8
Minimum: Mac OS X® 10.4 / 10.5, G5 2.0 GHz or Intel Core Duo 2.00 GHz, 4 GB RAM or Windows® XP (32 Bit) or Windows Vista® (32/64 Bit), Pentium® or Athlon XP 2.0 GHz, 4 GB RAM. 4 GB of RAM or more is highly recommended