The bass guitar can be described as one of the cornerstones of modern musical arrangements – supporting the all-important musical harmony and bridging the crucial gap between the rhythm of the drums and the chords and melodies of the guitars in a typical band setup. You just know when you hear a great bass line – the track seems full and complete, the groove is elevated, and the emotion of the music can be fully realized. Get the bass wrong though and you’re in trouble, bass matters!
Bass is Back in Town
Introducing the Virtual Bassist series from UJAM – A collection of easy to use virtual instrument plug-ins, designed to deliver ultra-realistic sounding and ’in the pocket’ bass guitar lines for your productions faster, easier and better than ever before.
It’s Real!
Beginners and pros will both appreciate the stunning level at which the Virtual Bassist series delivers on its sonic promises. As usual, UJAM started with recording a great musician playing the finest instruments they could source and then sampling the performances to a pioneering depth through a variety of amps.
AI Articulation Modelling
This intensely detailed palette is then coupled with cutting-edge AI-assisted bass articulations and a choice of premium effects making the Virtual Bassist series nothing less than the best sounding and easiest to use virtual session bass player ever made.
Four Flavours for Unlimited Musical Styles
DANDY is a modern-vintage flat-wound strings bass. ROYAL is a fingered electric bass that delivers a broad range of professional studio bass sounds and styles. ROWDY is a loud-mouthed, twangy rock bass, leaning towards saturation and distortion with a rather rough picked sound and playing style. MELLOW stands for an acoustic double bass that provides body, bottom end and texture in Jazz, urban and soul genres.
Play Your Bass
All Virtual Bassist plug-ins are available as a direct download in VST, AU, and AAX formats and work in any compatible DAW, including Logic, Garageband, Cubase, Ableton Live and Pro Tools. Hire your personal session bass player today and enjoy creating bass tracks faster, easier and better than ever before!
Upbeat, lively, colorful
SLAP is the wild child among bassists. A modern, sophisticated and off the wall virtuoso. Forget about cheesy slap sounds à la Seinfeld! Driving your song with character and soul, this is the ever-energetic creative live wire. In parallel there’s all the reliable professionalism you expect: SLAP shows up on time and lays down incredibly realistic basslines. Best of both worlds! With SLAP you will compose impressive bass performances easily.
What’s in there?
30 Styles with over 350 individual phrases
Both Slap and Finger style playing techniques
More than 100 Presets & 30 Finisher Multi-Effect Modes
MIDI Drag & Drop
Smooth operator
SLAP will energize any production with electric bass lines, but it’s particularly great on Pop, Funk, Jazz and Rock tracks. Especially highly rhythmical patterns and uptempo styles are its forte.
DANDY is your first-call when you need a seasoned professional bassist that is totally present in a mix without ever sounding “shouty”. There’s no indie-rock attitude in the playing. No, DANDY quietly lays down ultra-smooth, highly-polished basslines without hogging the spotlight or taking up too much room in a mix. How civilized!
What You Get
World-class vintage bass guitar & player
30 Styles
990 Phrases
100 Presets
15 Finisher Multi-Effect Modes
MIDI Drag & Drop
Great-sounding Modern and Vintage Tones
DANDY sounds fantastic on any production that needs electric bass, but it’s particularly great on Soul, Pop, Blues and Rock tracks. Our custom-made DSP algorithms push the raw sound of the bass in many directions from soft, round tones (perfect for vibey old school soul and blues tracks) all the way to bright modern pop and rock. Try blending DANDY with your synth-bass lines to give them a little more life and sophistication!
Virtual Bassist MELLOW – inside is a meticulously recorded acoustic double bass, played with soul and feeling, implanted in a virtual instrument that adds realism, behaviour and a player who knows his way around. Smooth, elegant, with the odd sound here and there. At home as a subtle foundation in a jazz trio as well as a powerful second voice in hip hop.
What’s new?
20 new styles
30 new presets
15 Finisher multi-effect modes
MIDI Drag and Drop
Backwards-compatibility
What You Get
A total of 60 Styles and 1380 Phrases
An upright bass that goes from smooth to powerful
Powerful-yet-simple sound shaping options
Artificially intelligent articulation modelling
Virtual Bassist ROYAL is a session bass professional – effortlessly fitting into any popular styles and genres with its rounded electric fingerstyle tones. Perfect for pop, ready to rock, impressive on indie and smooth on singer/songwriter material.
What’s new?
20 new styles
30 new presets
15 Finisher multi-effect modes
MIDI Drag and Drop
Backwards-compatibility
What You Get
A total of 60 Styles and 1380 Phrases
A distinct and professional electric bass
Powerful-yet-simple sound shaping options
Artificially intelligent articulation modelling
Virtual Bassist ROWDY – your loudmouthed, high-energy bassist with bite! If your bass has to cut through heavy drums and a wall of guitars, ROWDY is the perfect solution.
