8Dio Basstard KONTAKT

8Dio Basstard KONTAKT

Welcome to The Basstard, an instrument focused on recording the gradual destruction of a full-scale orchestral bass. The library contains four core categories of sounds: “Tonal”, “Percussive”, “FX” and “Grooves”.

The tonal category covers traditional multi-sampled articulations like plucked, staccato, rubber mallet on strings, regular drumstick on strings, fork on strings, and other tools that could be used for tonal sampling. The percussive category contains a variety of heavy round-robin based articulations, playing the instrument like a drum kit (containing 6-10 round robin articulations). The FX category has a gruesome number of effects such as bowing the bass with a baseball bat, using a power drill on the strings, recording sustained notes from it, and actually power-drilling the bass and reconfigureing the instrument, separating its neck from its body and essentially reassembling the instrument in horrible ways. The Groove category contains unique tempo-synched grooves recorded at several core tempos (80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140).

The result is a deep-sampled instrument that pushes the concept of orchestral bass into a more dark, gritty, percussive and disturbing territory.

Core articulations:

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

Additional features:

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

Full Retail version of Kontakt 5.8.1 or later required

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