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ManyTone ManyBass $140

With a comprehensive sample library and a flexible sound-shaping interface, ManyBass has your bottom end covered.

The MusicRadar Team, Mon 3 Dec, 2:27 pm UTC

Your bass tone can be sculpted using familiar synth-style controls.

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Manufacturer's description

ManyBass is a bass guitar sample based synthesizer which comes with a large collection of bass guitar samples intended to form the foundation of your day to day bass instrument needs. This extensive range of sounds has then been coupled with a highly efficient sample playback engine with a powerful FX rack. ManyBass was designed and built by ManyTone and AraldFX.

ManyBass has been designed to provide you with a high quality sound, thanks to the included 2.4 gig of all-new 24 bit, electric bass guitar multi-samples that extensively cover various articulations and playing styles of the real instrument. Click here for a full soundset listing. The engine and onboard Amp Sims and FX were designed and tuned for bass type sounds, including the playback of real bass guitar instrument samples. The included Presets, along with the Sound and FX Wizards, will have you creating realistic sounding bass guitar tracks in no time at all. Along with the included electric bass guitar samplesets, ManyBass also comes with a selection of Waveforms that are capable of producing synth bass type sounds as well as other synthetic instrument sounds.

ManyBass will allow you to load up to 4 different articulations of an instrument and switch between these articulations using simple Keyswitching or Midi cc. The 2.4 gig of bass samples included were all recorded from the same bass guitar, and then mapped into 13 individual soundsets. This keyswitching feature allows the user to load up to 4 of the soundsets and easily switch between them using a Midi note, or a button on your keyboard controller. All this is accomplished on a single page, in an easy to use, graphical user interface.

ManyBass is available in PC VSTi format and Mac AU and VSTi formats (Universal Binary).

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MusicRadar rating

4.5 of 5

Pros

Highly flexible sound-shaping tools. Modular approach. Powerful effects. Extended library worth extra investment. Very playable thanks to careful multisampling.

Cons

Factory sounds are a little quiet by default. Busy GUI.

The bottom line

ManyBass is well-designed and does a good job of imitating a bass guitar. It's definitely fit for purpose.

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ManyBass

Price:
$140
Description:
Bass guitar sample-based synth
Compatible Systems:
Mac, PC
MIDI:
0
Virtual Instrument Type:
Bass
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