Native Instruments releases Essential Bass for Kore

Native Instruments has released Essential Bass, a new Kore-Powered instrument that provides "a comprehensive arsenal of visceral, production-ready bass sounds" for $79 / €69.

Based on the Kore Player and its integrated synthesis and sample engines, Essential Bass covers the full spectrum of the bottom end, from classic acoustic and electric bass to vintage analog sounds and innovative synthesizer tones, according to NI.

Classic instruments in Essential Bass include fingered, picked and slapped electric basses from sample producers Scarbee and Pettinhouse, as well as an exclusive antique upright bass that was sampled and recreated with "painstaking precision". These instruments are complemented with a large selection of inventive, "ultra-modern" bass tones that take advantage of the integrated Absynth, FM8, Massive and Reaktor engines. A further section provides a range of classic subtractive synth bass sounds that have been carefully sampled from several iconic analog synthesizers.

Essential Bass utilizes many advanced soundshaping features of the Kore platform, and can be used both within the free Kore Player and with the full-featured Kore 2 system. Each of the 200 sounds includes eight morphable variations as well as concise musical metadata for the powerful Kore sound browser. Electric basses come to life with sophisticated articulations based on the integrated Kontakt engine, while synthesizer sounds benefit from specific bass features like legato, glide and an adjustable sub bass function for additional subsonic impact.

Essential Bass is available for download purchase in the NI Online Shop for $79 / €69.