The FX category has a gruesome amount of FX made with anything from bowing bass with baseball bat, using a powerdrill on the strings and recording sustained notes from it – to actually powerdrilling 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.

Articulations & Pricing
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

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

Custom Convolution Reverbs (+40)
    Several Custom Convolution Reverb(s) / Impulses
    45 Kontakt 4.nki files
    1.800 samples
    1 GB installed (using lossless compression org. size 2.5GB)
    Sample resolution: 44.1Khz / 24Bit stereo
    Format(s): Kontakt / .NCW Compression
    Important Note: Native Instruments Kontakt +4.2 full retail versions required for this instrument.


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