Steinberg Virtual Bassist

Featuring the talents of the programming team behind Virtual Guitarist and Groove Agent, Virtual Bassist provides all manner of bass guitar phrases, sounds, and styles. Uses dynamic phrases based on real performances by top studio bass players. It offers a huge array of samples and phrases in 25 styles, including rock, pop, reggae, metal, and hip-hop to name but a few.

While the huge range of included intros, fills, and variations provide a vibrant, dynamic library of bass guitar sounds, the MIDI Export/Import features allow grooves to be opened up in the MIDI key editor of the host application for detailed editing, adding a further level of variety and adaptability. Virtual Bassist is also designed to be eminently playable, with MIDI keyboard notes selecting the pitch of the played groove while the Modulation wheel allows simultaneous and dynamic switching between groove complexity levels.

Virtual Bassist also offers GrooveMatch, a powerful tool that molds the Virtual Bassist bass line to any existing drum groove. Owners of Groove Agent, Virtual Guitarist, or Virtual Guitarist Electric Edition will find pre-matched grooves for phrases and patterns in those instruments, creating a tightly integrated drum, bass, and guitar rhythm section within VST, DXi, AU, or ReWire host applications. Virtual Bassist also runs in stand-alone mode on PC and Macintosh computers.

You'll enjoy a full range of outstanding sound-shaping features, including a range of 6 high-quality virtual stompbox effects optimized for bass guitar, a choice of amp heads, bass cabinets, and microphones as well as mic positioning options to build your ideal bass guitar parts. The included effects can also be used on any other audio channel in music production environments such as Steinberg's Cubase SX3.