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On the Native Instruments MM-Bass product page you can listen to a number of audio clips in various styles to get a good idea of what MM-Bass sounds like. And yes I know it wouldвЂ™ve made sense to do a funk track and I really need a fretless for Continuum, but I just love this song. Note: I selected a nice effect for this bass sound. ThatвЂ™s quite a bunch of options, but they are all pretty easy to understand and you can simply turn some knobs to find out what happens if youвЂ™re not sure.ДЇor a quick demo I tossed a Midi of Continuum by Jaco Pastorius (sequenced and re-arranged by Reinhard Bock) in Ableton Live to see how the bass sounds without doing any tweaking.

Help is available directly from the Kontakt performance view (documentation for articulations, playing techniques, etc.).

Controllers allows for setting MIDI #CC to control playing position, slide mode, release (loose or tight), sustain, and pickup hit chance.

Noise Levels can be set individually for release samples, fret noises, pickup hits and clap.

Alternation between fingers can be manipulated by setting the amount of time that is considered to be fast playing (triggering automatic alternation).

Normally you would like to keep the sloppiness at a low value since it introduces some latency. The sloppiness controls set the amount of time (in ms) for notes to be played apart for the script to still be able to recognize them as a chord.

Chords can be detected by a KSP script.

A decay parameter sets the volume envelope for the release (the rate at which a release note becomes silent).

Release samples can be selected (loose, tight 1 & 2) and some controls are available to determine the chance of certain release samples to be triggered.

A knob sets the change in percentage that a pickup noise will occur (or not).

Pickup Hit can be on or off by default and triggered with a key switch.

Vibrato intensity is controlled by MIDI CC#1 or Aftertouch.

Vibrato speed and the volume of fret noise it causes is adjustable.

EQ includes controls for bass, middle and treble.

You can modify presets and save your own.

FX Presets includes a number of factory effect presets like Old School, New Wave, and Spacy, to spice up your sound.

Pop & Country, Soul & Funk, and Rock & Retro each use different automatic string selection and playing positions (which can be overridden manually).

Player Profile allows you to set your playing style.

I will list a brief description of the various panels available. MM-Bass can automatically pick the string which would make most sense - including articulations - in order to get a realistic performance. When playing certain notes a bass player can choose which strings to use. MM-Bass uses some powerful KSP scripts (by KSP guru Nils Liberg) for detailed control over many things, including automatic string selection. It is one thing to have a sample library of quality bass guitar samples and another to use those samples to produce the sound an actual bass player would. Playing bass like you know what youвЂ™re doing The library needs to be activated in the NI Service Center, which you can launch manually or from the Kontakt (Player) library box panel.

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The installation includes a well written manual which is well worth a read since it explains all MM-Bass articulations, playing techniques, etc.

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Unpack the download, launch the setup and click through a series of next, next, finish dialogs.

And thanks to some sophisticated scripting, SCARBEE MM-BASS comes vividly to life with features such as a dynamic fretboard display, chord recognition, random alternation between varying release samples, random insertion of pickup hits and realistic vibrato вЂ“ all to put the swagger into your groove. It features an extensive set of playing techniques including sustains, mutes, harmonics, hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides and more. The MM-Bass includes a multitude of features to create a bass instrument that sounds and plays like the real thing.

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Bringing you the warm and creamy fingered bass sound of the 70s known from countless disco and funk recordings, SCARBEE MM-BASS is an outstanding addition to our series of вЂњPowered-by KONTAKTвЂќ instruments вЂ“ ready for use with the free KONTAKT PLAYER or KONTAKT 4.ДЄll four strings of the MM-Bass were fully sampled, recorded through a DI (direct input) box so you can shape the sound to your preference with some additional sound processing. SCARBEE MM-BASS is based on the highly-regarded Scarbee Black Bass created by accomplished bassist and producer Thomas Hansen Skarbye and inspired by the sound of Bernard Edwards (Chic).

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MM-Bass is the latest addition to the collection of Scarbee bass instruments that is now available as a self-contained instrument for Windows and Mac.