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CoreBass Pear and Cherry Electric Bass by Jeffrey Powell
Loyal Wusik readers will recall that When you load up the basic default Greg Schlaepfer and Orange Tree patch for the library, you're Samples first made an appearance greeted with a great looking, in WSM in our December 2011 multi-page interface. Check out issue. In that issue, I reviewed the screen shot for a glimpse of it. Mesa Winds, their Native American The interface consists of three flute library. All in all, I was really distinct pages: Mapping, impressed as I found it to be a Instrument, and Levels. The realistic, expressive, and highly Mapping page is really the heart of playable instrument. If you're this instrument as it contains the interested, then you can check out main playability controls. I don't that review at have enough room to list the http://issuu.com/wusik/docs/wsm details, but I'll give you a quick _dec_2011/48. overview. You can control the timing of note releases (to make a As noted in that review, Orange smoother sounding performance), Tree Samples has a wide array of choose between five (!!) different sample libraries, and in this issue, pitch bend behaviors, select the we're going to take a look at two MIDI CC number to enable slide of their more traditional Kontakt mode, and specify the interval so libraries: their upright bass known that overlapping notes will be as CoreBass Pear and their electric interpreted as legato. How's that bass library known as Cherry for control? Well, there's more Electric Bass. Can they deliver just where that came from! like Mesa Winds? Let's find out! On the Instrument page, you'll find CoreBass Pear ways to adjust your hand position (which affects the playing range As noted above, CoreBass Pear is and the string selection), choose Orange Tree Samples' upright among multiple tuning presets, acoustic bass library. It weighs in and control the slide speed and with a reasonable 300 MB of pre-roll amount (which contribute samples, which have been to a realistic sound). To finish out compressed to half that size using the interface, the Levels page Kontakt 4's lossless NCW format. allows you to specify the volume of As a side note, this means you'll the releases, fret slides, legato need the full version of Kontakt 4 noises, and pre-rolls. So, needless or higher to use CoreBass Pear. to say, the interface gives you a surprising amount of control. 26
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