Native Instruments Session Bassist Upright Bass [KONTAKT]

Upright Bass combines a pattern-based bass library with a sophisticated set of multi-samples, designed to provide authentic bass lines, patterns, and riffs for songwriting, music production, and scoring. The samples have been recorded using an extraordinary upright bass, built at the renowned violin making school in Mittenwald, Germany. It features a unique back construction: a flat back glued in a curve over the contoured ribs and soundboard. The result is the rich, mellow character of a curved back, coupled with the direct response and definition of a flat back.

The instrument was recorded using high-end vintage condenser and dynamic microphones in multiple microphone configurations, as well as a Balsereit pickup through SPL Gainstations and vintage Universal Audio 610 preamps. The signals were then converted by an SPL Madison A/D converter and fed via MADI to an RME MADIface XT, both externally clocked by an Antelope Audio 10MX Rubidium atomic clock.