The Ultimate Electric, Acoustic and Synth Bass
Instrument
When you're ready to get
serious about Bass, this is the instrument! Trilogy is a programmable,
sample-based sound module plug-in, that integrates a massive 3 Gigabyte core
library of hundreds of brand new, remarkable Bass sounds, with a powerful user
interface for creating your own unique patches.
The real power of
Trilogy lies within its layering concept. Beyond the core library hundreds of
incredible new Basses, every patch in Trilogy has two layers that you can tweak
individually. You can also immediately mix and match any of the layers in the
core library together, and edit each one independently. Imagine the power of
combining the sound of a real Minimoog™ with a Fretless bass, or a Virus™ with a
TB-303™, or even adding a Juno™ sub-oscillator to an Upright Bass! There are
thousands of earthshaking combinations, and you'll never run out of options.
Let's look at each of the three sections of Trilogy in detail, since
each one has some innovative features:
ACOUSTIC BASS The
highly detailed Acoustic Upright Bass is one of the highlights of this
instrument. Because of Trilogy's unique interface, you can get a wide variety of
gorgeous tones from this Bass. This is made possible because the interface has
separate control of the Neumann™ U-47 Tube Microphone signal and the Direct
Pickup signal, which was sampled through a vintage Neve™ 1083 Console. This
stunning sounding acoustic is chromatically sampled, with multi-dynamic velocity
switching. The hardest velocity in every Bass patch in Trilogy brings in real
bass glisses, similar in concept to the idea Spectrasonics pioneered on the Hans
Zimmer Guitar libraries. An acoustic Martin™ Dreadnought Bass Guitar is also
available in the Acoustic section -perfect for those "unplugged" sessions!
Trilogy's innovative True Staccato™ technique lets you play
repeated notes on the Acoustic and Electric basses in real-time with a whole new
level of realistic phrasing, and finally allows for repeated notes that sound
completely natural like a bass player, and not like the dreaded "machine gun"
sampler effect!
ELECTRIC BASS The huge selection of Electric
Basses are from all new, painstakingly recorded sessions, and features classic
4, 5 and 6 string models, performed in Fingered, Picked, Muted, Rock & Roll,
Slapping, Ballad, Fretless and R&B techniques through rare, custom-made tube
preamps. Special variations are presented including Harmonics, Glisses, Fuzz,
Trills, FX and thousands of Slides! Both Modern and Vintage "Old School"
Electrics are available, providing a wide array of tones for different musical
settings. All the patches are mapped the same way, so that one sequence will
work with any bass you select.
There are thousands of samples used in
these instruments, mapped with multiple dynamics for amazing expression. You
don't have to "assemble" Bass parts with Trilogy, it's extremely playable as a
highly expressive real-time instrument too!
To complete the picture,
every Acoustic and Electric Bass in Trilogy has a special "Finger Noise" release
layer with release triggering, that gives these basses amazing realism
-perfectly simulating the fretboard response of the real bass. When a note is
released, the Finger Noise layer triggers an appropriate noise sample from among
hundreds of tiny fret noises, subtle string scrapes, squeeks, x-notes, taps and
mutes, which add a user controllable "human" imperfection element to your
performance. You can also easily control how much of this effect you want, since
the noise effect is on its own layer that can be controlled from the Trilogy
Mixer.
SYNTH BASS Trilogy is one of the most awesome Bass
Synthesizers ever made! Have you ever struggled with trying to fit your synth
bass sounds to sit in a track properly? The sound of Trilogy is not only
ultra-fat, but it sits great in a mix. That's because we've created
high-resolution core samples from legendary Analog Bass Synths like the
Minimoog™, Roland Juno 60™, Roland TB-303™, Roland SH-101™, Oberheim™ SEM, Moog
Taurus™, OSCar™, Virus™, Yamaha CS-80™, Arp Odyssey™ and 2600™, Studio
Electronics SE-1™, Omega™ and ATC™ Tone Chameleon, Sequential Circuits Pro One™,
the mighty Moog Voyager™ and many others! Trilogy's multimode resonant filters
allow you total control over the sound, while still retaining the original
character and power of the classic analog instruments.
Each fully
programmable layer has its own multimode resonant filters, four LFOs, three
envelopes, adjustable sample start and matrix modulation. There's also an
additional master filter for quick tone shaping.
In addition to
gigabytes of high-resolution sampled vintage synth waveforms, and thick
multimode resonant filters for each layer, Trilogy has the rare feature of
smooth analog synth-style Legato triggering and Glide that software samplers
lack. This capability allows for Synth Bass sounds that truely play like a
vintage analog synth. This feature can also be used with any of the Electric or
Acoustic Basses, for unique hybrid Bass sounds that you've never heard before!
Whether you're looking to anchor your mixes with a giant vault of
amazing Bass presets, or you're searching for a versatile instrument to create
your own unique Bass sounds꿻here's no other Bass instrument out there with the
tone, variety and flexibility of Trilogy -it's simply in a class by itself.
TRIPLE THE FAT!
World's only dedicated Acoustic, Electric and Synth Bass instrument
Earthshaking, Cone-blowing, Subsonic sound
Massive 3 gig core library
All NEW Sounds developed by award-winning sound designer Eric Persing.
Hundreds of brand new Electric, Acoustic and Synth Basses, each with dual
layers.
Mix and Match layers for thousands of dynamic combinations
Highly-detailed, multi-velocity multisample articulations for ultimate
expression.
Innovative 'True Staccato' sample-mapping, for natural sounding repeated
notes.
Finger Noise release layer for ultimate realism
Analog synth-style Legato triggering with Glide
Easy to use built-in patch management system
Fully programmable
Multimode resonant filters for each layer, plus master filters
Three envelopes per layer for Pitch, Filter and Amplitude
Matrix-style modulation routing, four LFOs
Total recall with your sequence
Powered by custom 32 bit UVI engine
Cross platform plug-in compatibility!
$349 Five CD-ROM
set MAS, RTAS Mac and VST Mac/PC included (Audio Unit and OSX versions
available as a free update in 2003!)
Operates as a virtual instrument
software plug-in in all major hosts like Logic 5, Digital Performer, Pro Tools
Mac Free/LE/TDM/HD, Cubase (VST-Mac/PC & SX Windows only), Nuendo, Fruity
Loops, Acid Pro 4.0 and other VST hosts. *also works in Sonar 2.0 with a VST
wrapper (not included)
System recommendations:
512 MB RAM, 3.1 GB
free hard disc space
MAC: OS 9 or higher, 250 mHz G3 or better CPU,
MAS, RTAS or VST 2.0 host
PC: Windows 98 or higher, 300 mHz Pentium
or better CPU, sound card, VST 2.0 host
CPU load: VERY
LOW
*All Specifications to change without notice.
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