Like the other members of the CLOUD family CLOUD BASS is made by ditching the conventional bow in favour of a ridiculous system of springs and pulleys that drag coarse industrial grade garden twine over the strings of the double bass to create a long, slowly distressed new bowing articulation.
Recorded with different microphone techniques and mixed with more conventional double bass articulations and a selection of multi sampled analogue sub bass waveforms CLOUD BASS is a very different beast to the usual orchestral or jazz double bass sample libraries.
What’s inside?
– One Kontakt .nki instrument
– 60 snapshots
– 2GB of 24bit samples (uncompressed)
– Three octave keyrange – C1 to C4
Articulations – Eight deeply sampled articulations through eight ‘oscillators’
– Twine 1: bowed with five meters of coarse brown garden string, five round robins per note per note – AKG C414 large diaphragm condensor mic mic
– Twine 2: bowed with five meters of coarse brown garden string, five round robins per note per note – Barcus Berry Planar contact mic
– Twine 3: bowed with five meters of coarse brown garden string, five velocity levels per note -AKG 411 contact mic
– Long Accent Bow: bowed with a real bow, five round robins per note, minimum three velocity layers per note – AKG C414 large diaphragm condensor mic
– Short Accent Bow (high): bowed with a real bow, five round robins per note – AKG C414 large diaphragm condensor mic
– Beater – thumped lightly with drum beater, five round robins per note, five velocity layers per note – AKG C414 large diaphragm condensor mic
– Col legno: Latin for ‘gently thwacked with the back of the bow’, five round robins per note, minimum three velocity layers per note – AKG C414 large diaphragm condensor mic
– Sub Bass: six selectable analogue multi sampled waveforms recorded from Moog Voyager and DSi Pro 02
