Acoustic bass samples

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Acoustic bass samples

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I am trying to set up a hydrogen drum kit to provide simple backup for instrument practice. The first thing I need are acoustic bass samples (upright / double bass, if possible). Later on I would like to add acoustic guitar strums and perhaps mandolin chops (yes, bluegrass... :wink: ). Does anyone know about a source for such samples?
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Go to http://www.bandshed.net/sounds/sfz and download nbo_2.zip. This is the full No Budget Orchestra. Under "DoubleBass/SoloBass", you'll find both a Jazz bass (bass_pizzi.sfz) and bowed bass (bass.sfz). There's also a steel string guitar, nylon string, and mandolin in nbb_guitars.zip

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I used the free 'Karoryfer Meatbass' before getting a real double bass for myself. Hear it on https://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack-jam-170956.php, download it at https://shop.karoryfer.com/pages/free-meatbass .
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Thanks guys,

I downloaded some bass sample, edited it a bit around and now have a quite convincing acoustic bass for my needs. Now I'm looking into guitar samples (steel string acoustic) but all samples I have found so far seem to be single note samples and not chord strums. They seem appropriate for a single note but if I construct a chord from the samples, it sounds horrible. Perhaps I just record my own samples of some basic guitar chord strums...
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grond wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 11:43 am Thanks guys,

I downloaded some bass sample, edited it a bit around and now have a quite convincing acoustic bass for my needs. Now I'm looking into guitar samples (steel string acoustic) but all samples I have found so far seem to be single note samples and not chord strums. They seem appropriate for a single note but if I construct a chord from the samples, it sounds horrible. Perhaps I just record my own samples of some basic guitar chord strums...
You have to "strum" them. There is a strum plugin https://x42.github.io/midifilter.lv2/ht ... strum.html

You can do it manually, too.
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Thanks for the hint with the plugin, however, yesterday I recorded my own guitar strums for all 12 major, minor and 7-chords. I wanted first position chords where possible (guitar player terminology) and didn't need more than one sample per chord because I only need the guitar strums for basic rhythm backup (boom-chuck style where the boom is the bass and the chuck the guitar strum). I have set up boom-chuck patterns for all 36 chord variations and can now put together simple rhythmic backup to a song by clicking on the chord patterns like G-G-G-G-Em-Em-G-G-D-D-G-G or whatever chord sequence a specific song to practice may have.

Now if there were a way to group patterns in Hydrogen to make working with that many patterns easier... :lol: (I am considering adding patterns for I-IV, I-V and I-II progressions which unfortunately would quadruple the number of patterns...) EDIT: I am reading up on pattern grouping now...
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