Bornemark Broomstick Bass announced

MI7 has announced the availability of Broomstick Bass, the first virtual bass player for VST compatible music Applications, engineered by Bornemark Software, the creators of the concepts for Groove Agent and Virtual Guitarist. Broomstick Bass is the next self-playing musical instrument, to be used as a session partner, composition assistant or a deluxe bass sound archive.

Broomstick Bass is fully loaded with easy-to-use bass riffs and grooves. The user just has to play some chords and listen to Broomstick Bass following the harmonies and intentions. There are loads of patterns for inspiration and composition and a manual mode for playing your own bass lines.

Main Features:

• More than 20 multi sampled classic and special bass instruments: electric and acoustic (recorded with pick, fingers, vibrato etc), keyboard and pedal basses.
• A real time musical MIDI engine that provides tons of realistic, common, characteristic and specialized self-playing bass lines. All logically categorized into styles and sub-styles.
• All bass guitars have been recorded with a variety of common practice performances, including slide up and down, staccato, hammer-ons and pull-offs – all easily accessible from the MIDI control octave.
• A cool selection of useful bass-effects (on the Edit page) make sure the bass lines cut through any mix. These tools may also be used for experimentation when you want to go over the top.

Broomstick Bass has been designed with expandability in mind. Expect further bass lines and instruments to become available as free downloads from their website.

Broomstick Bass is scheduled to be released worldwide on October 1st, 2004 with an MSRP of 209 EUR (plus VAT).