It took more than a year for Chris Hein to produce this outstanding collection of six exceptional noble bass instruments, sampled with all imaginable details that answer anyoneÕs wishes. A Musicman Stingray electric-bass picked & slapped, a LeFay fretless bass and a unique upright bass with three different sets of strings: steel-strings (the classic jazz sound), nylon-strings (the high-fidelity sound) and gut-strings (the old-school swing sound of the 40s). The exceeding script programming in Kontakt 2 allows sound designing that overtops even the possibilities of the real basses. For the first time all nuances of bass playing techniques are implemented in a sampled instrument. This virtual instrument offers 112 MIDI controllable features including groundbreaking news like repetition-hotkeys, keys-vibrato, fall-control, bridge/center playing, pickup micro-blending, expression-samples, pinch-harmonics, automatic-mode, slide-mode, chord-mode and much more. The included IK Multimedia Ampeg SVX Uno (virtual bass-amp) adds more sound variations to the natural, basic bass instruments. Features: - 12.7 GB of fantastic, natural bass sounds - up to 4.089 samples per sound - Native Instruments Kontakt 2 Player engine - up to 42 articulations - up to 8 velocity layers - 112 Midi controllable parameters with total recall - repetition hotkeys - key vibrato - four release controls - fall control - bridge-/center playing - pickup micro-blending (upright basses) - pinch harmonics (electric basses) - expression samples - automatic-, slide- and chord-mode FREE Ampeg SVX Uno included! Chris Hein Bass offers the natural sound of the noble Bass Instruments, recorded with highend studio equipment. But the award winning virtual bass-amp emulation Ampeg SVX Uno from IK Multimedia which we included for free, gives you the opportunity to start playing with a variety of amped bass sounds. Ampeg SVX Uno offers: ¥ 1 signature Ampeg¨ bassamp model with pre-amp, EQ, limiter and 9-band grafic EQ ¥ 1 cabinet model ¥ microphone modeling ¥ 1stomp effect (chorus) ¥ high-precision tuner ¥ speed trainer ¥ plug-In and standalone version ¥ qualifies for up- or crossgrades to Ampeg SVX Fullversion or any other IK Multimedia product Format: Virtual Instrument PC: VST 2.0, RTAS, Stand-Alone Mac: AU, VST 2.0, RTAS, Stand-Alone Systemrequirements: 512 MB RAM min., ~ 13GB free hard disk space Mac OS X 10.4+; G4 1GHz or INTEL Core Duo 1.66GHz min. Windows XP, Vista; Pentium/Athlon XP 1.4GHz min.