Midiwood walker upright bass

[My name is Nobody]

Maybe of interest to some here?

As I am not a active user of sampled upright basses I can’t tell whether it is useful.
It sounds at first listen quite ok to me…

https://midiwood.com/instruments/wlkr-u ... e-library/

[Piet De Ridder]

It's more than OK, it's one of the good ones. (Just my opinion of course.)
Here's a few moments with it.

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[wst3]

and as usual, your opinion does have some value I like the demo you shared. And my first reaction was that the demo was someone playing live and that it would be compared to the virtual version shorly... got that one wrong!!

[Lawrence]

Quick look through the walkthrough, didn’t find an arco articulation. Is that correct?

[My name is Nobody]

It's more than OK, it's one of the good ones. (Just my opinion of course.)
Here's a few moments with it.

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It’s sound certainly like a musician playing live.

As a question: was your clear demonstration ( much appreciated!) indeed played live without any difficult art switching, and rather just dynamically playing a bass?
As I am now fully enjoying Acoustic Samples’s woodwinds and brass it makes me feel again like playing an instrument rather than thinking I am playing a virtual instrument

[Piet De Ridder]

It's a very playable instrument, yes. You need a fairly large keyboard though (or a second device that you can use for keyswitching), because the keyswitches are all the way down at the bottom and the various sample-sets (the instrument itself, various noises, a couple of flourishes, etc. ...) are spread out over the rest of the keyboard. (Since the library is not locked, I've been thinking about remapping the keyswitches and the secondary samples, bringing everything as close together as possible, but I haven't gotten around to actually do that yet.)

But yeah, the bass part in the example was played pretty much live, be it in three passes: one for the introduction, one for the central part (when the Rhodes enters) and a third one (which was originally much longer) for the ending. Did some editing after I recorded everything — adjusting some velocities, replacing one articulation for another in a couple of spots, cleaning up a few sloppy moments, ....), but, basically, it's live playing, using just a single instance of the library.

One thing to keep in mind: due to the way it was recorded (resulting in a strong and very convincing presence of room around the sound), there is no pitch-bend possible with this bass. Well, there can be (and I used some in my example) but only if you edit the patch and then make sure to use pitch-bend very carefully. The reason is that if you use plenty of those spatial channels in the mix — which is very tempting because they sound great — and then bend notes, you also 'bend the room' that's imbedded in the samples, and that doesn't sound right. You can get away with a little bit of bending (as I hope the example illustrates), but it's definitely something you need to be aware of.

Apart from some remapping, there are few other small edits I'm considering — nothing major, just a few details to, hopefully, get the instrument even closer to how I like virtual basses to sound & respond — but as it is, in its v1 version, this is already clearly one of the better upright bass libraries. And different enough from all the others to make a purchase defensible if, that is, upright basses make frequent appearances in your music.



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[RobS]

sounds good, and as always your ability to groove is second to none... you have the pocket

[My name is Nobody]

Much appreciated for writing your experience of this bass VI, Piet.

As I don’t use / need one often, I would have no problem with some limitations like the bending notes & room sound, my main happiness would come from a playable instrument that doesn’t need the distraction from too much keyswitching or other bells & whistles. (The swam approach doesn’t do it for me) and just sounds good after a first take.