Metal Shadows

Ample Bass Metal Ray5

Ample Bass AMR is a virtual bass based on samples of the Stingray 5 Classic, a 5 String Electric Bass sounding hard and bright. The Library has 3.3 GB samples, all recorded in 44.1 kHz and 24 bit quality. Ample Bass AMR offers all common playing varieties such as Slap, Fingered & Slides. Features include the built-in tab player, which can load all popular tabular formats, as well as the "riffer 2" adjusting your basslines to the desired genre through a large selection of presets.

New Features

• Alternate Tuning. Ample Bass supports alternate tunings to the lowest note A0.
• Pick Attack Accentuation feature which can be adjustable to simulate the noise of pick stroke, bringing up more variations and realism.
• Automatic switch between Sustain, 2 kinds of Palm Mute and Dead Note by velocity layers. No keyswitch is needed.
• Bass Tab Player can play both 5-string and 4-string bass tabs.

Riffer 2

• String Roll Editor: can clearly show fingering, articulation, expression, and even playing noise. Every note has 8 attributes - pitch, velocity, length, off velocity, articulation, legato, vibrato and bend, with which you can make a delicate lick.

• Dice - Random Riff Generator: A click will create a new inspiration because it is not simply a random algorithm. Rather, it summarizes the rules through analyzing a bunch of music scores.

• Multiple selection and operation, undo and redo etc. multiple MIDI tools, including fixed velocity, length legato and restrict, select, move, draw, erase, split, glue etc.

Tab Player

• The Tab Player can load and play several prevalent guitarass tablature file formats. Users can load, display and playback any specific track inside a tablature file. When used in DAWs, the Tab Player also allows users to export the tablature as an audio file.

• The Tab Player supports all the fingering, looping, chords, articulations and other markers in the loaded tablature. Supported articulations include: Strum, Natural Harmonic, Artificial Harmonic, Hammer On/Pull Off, Trill, Bend, Tremolo Bar, Legato Slide, Slide In, Slide Out, Vibrato, Tremolo Picking, Palm Mute, Slapping, Popping, Tapping, Let Ring, Staccato, Dead Note, Grace Note, Ghost Note, Accentuated Note, Fade In, etc.

• As a built-in function, the Tab Player works seamlessly with the Ample Sound instrument engine, which has extremely customized guitar playing logic so as to model a real world guitar being played. The Tab Player can even judge on its own to automatically add some refining articulations when it thinks it is appropriate, such as slapping on strings or body, or other realistic and indispensable noises.

Sampling

• AMR has a 3.3 GB sample library which records each single fret, no destructive editing and dynamic processing are applied.
• It features 9 articulations including Sustain, 2 kinds of Palm Mute (Mute and Half Mute), Dead Note, Hammer On & Pull Off, Legato Slide, Slide in & out, Accentuated, Repeat Note & Dead Note
• The Legato articulations can be used to achieve legato notes of any duration, pitch and polyphony.

Technology

• Support for MIDI guitars, users can get the same strings and positions, some articulations (slide and hammer on, pull off), and velocity with live playing a MIDI guitar .
• Different GUI for extensions
• Improve "Open string first" feature.
• Add SYNC for Tab player.
• Auto Buzz system
• Groovy Single-Note bass line
• Alternate Tuner & lowest to B
• Slap & Sustain in one MIDI track
• Capo Logic - Intelligent play according to guitar rules.
• CPC(Customized Parameters Control), any button knob etc can be controlled by MIDI CC or Automation
• Poly Legato
• Slide Smoother
• Combined Keyswitches - combine 2 articulations via pressing 2 keyswitches at the same time
• Open String First Function
• Manual vibrato wheel designed specifically for string instruments
• Capo - Transpose without need to modify midi.
• Stereo DI Signal
• Pick Attack Accentuation feature which can be adjustable to simulate the noise of pick stroke, bringing up more variations and realism.