User guide
Bassysm-F
The Bassysm-F Fretless bass is a five-string fretless Ibanez Bass Guitar with roundwound strings.
Overview
FIVE STRINGS, NO FRETS
The Bassysm-F is a five-string fretless Ibanez bass guitar with roundwound strings, the smooth, singing kind of bass that sits under a ballad as easily as it leads a jazz line.
It is sampled in depth: around 827 samples, with about 10 velocity layers for the sustains and 13 for the releases, so every dynamic you play has its own sound rather than a louder copy of the one before.
Interface
Features
Legato, hammer-ons and slides
A fretless lives on what happens between the notes. Play legato and the Bassysm-F connects them the way a bassist would, with real hammer-on and slide samples.
The legato mode decides what an overlapping note does: trigger a hammer-on, a slide, a plain sustain, or nothing at all. The legato distance sets the widest interval it applies to, so a big jump is still played as a fresh note.
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Legato controls
Legato mode: choose whether playing legato triggers hammer-ons, slides, sustains, or has no effect. The mode can also be switched from the keyboard: Off (B4), Hammer (C5), Slide (C#5) and Legato (D5).
Legato distance: the maximum interval, in semitones, over which the legato applies. Wider intervals are played as new notes.
Vibrato, harmonics and ghost notes
An advanced vibrato effect sits on the modulation wheel, so you can bring it in and out as you would with your fretting hand.
Harmonics, ghost notes and string hits are all sampled, along with the sound a string makes when it is released mid-note - the small details that make a bass line sound played rather than programmed.
Shape the tone
Everything you need to fit the bass into a mix is on the front panel: a cabinet simulation, a Bass and Treble EQ, and a chorus - because a fretless and a chorus belong together.
The sensitivity sets how quiet the softest notes are, giving you as much or as little dynamic range as the track needs.
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Front panel
Release volume: the level of the sound produced when you release a string while a note is ringing.
Cabinet: turns the cabinet simulation on or off.
EQ: adjusts the Bass and Treble of the parametric EQ.
Sensitivity: sets the minimum volume for velocity 1, from a narrow to the full dynamic range.
Chorus: as this is a fretless bass, a chorus module is built in, with Speed and Depth controls.
Technical specifications
Sample player
Bassysm-F plays in UVI Player (formerly UVI Workstation), UVI's free sample player. We provide it with every library you buy, so you don't need an expensive sampler to use our products. It works on Mac (macOS 10.14 or later, Intel or Apple silicon) and Windows (10 or later), standalone or as a plug-in (VST / VST3 / AU / AAX), in 64-bit only. More about it here.
Copy protection
We use the iLok system to protect our products and you can choose to register your license to your computer or to an iLok dongle. If you decide to use an iLok dongle, both V1 and V2 are compatible with our products. You can activate your license on up to 3 computers or iLok dongles at the same time and you can deactivate one and activate another as many times as you want.