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TECH
Trilian Total Bass Module
THE MOTHER OF ALL BASSLINES!
Spectrasonics’ new bass softsynth plug-in Trilian really delivers
PRICE
£209
S
pectrasonics are back with a The acoustic bass is one of the most Filters with more than 19 filter types, six full-
CONTACT
vengeance with Trilian, the very detailed software recreations that we have featured LFOs, dual morphing modulation,
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long-awaited follow-up to their heard, offering tons of control and musical adjustable FX racks, and much more. The world
Trilogy Bass Softsynth. expression — it actually sounds as if you’re is your oyster with so many user changeable
Back in the day, nearly every producer who was playing a real acoustic bass guitar, and that options.
using softsynths used Trilogy to death, as it goes for the electric basses, too. With careful
VERDICT
sounded absolutely amazing and had a huge playing techniques and a few little production
NATURAL SOUNDING
wealth of bass sounds to satisfy every need. secrets, we were hard pushed to tell this was a Getting such an accurate sounding plug-in was
BUILD QUALITY N/A
But with newer products catching up on softsynth. achieved by sampling the bass sounds that
EASE OF USE 4.0
this marvellous plug-in, Spectrasonics are at its core to a very high level of detail.
FEATURES 5.0
have revisited and totally redesigned the The synth bass sounds are something else. Variations can be heard when the sounds
VALUE FOR MONEY 4.0
programme. The result is Trilian. Trilian features some pretty hefty filter and are played, like the slides between notes as
SOUND QUALITY 5.0
A beast, Trilian boasts a massive 34GB core oscillating effects, and the resonance and individual notes are triggered, adding to that
library featuring highly detailed Acoustic, modulation is ideal for electronic genres. The natural sounding experience.
HYPE
Electric and Synth basses, as well as enhanced guys at Spectrasonic used hundreds of synth The user interface has been designed to make
A great sounding plug-in, with a
huge core library of bass sounds
versions of the classic Trilogy sounds. In sound sources to create the bass sounds, editing quick and easy, but it is also feature-
that will cover every bass need
addition, new sound banks have been posted emulating some of the world’s most coveted rich, so all levels of users can get something
in the studio.
on their website for users to download. Once hardware synthesisers, from the original Moog out of it.
installed and played with, it feels like the floor Minimoog and Taurus Pedals, to the latest Trilian’s FX racks include all of the FX processors
GRIPE
has opened up. The bass sounds are earth- analogue modular synthesisers like Novation’s from their other products, Omnisphere and
You’re going to need a lot of free
shattering. Bass Station, Yamaha CS-80, Korg MS-20, Stylus RMX, including a wide variety of amp
hard drive space to load this
ARP 2600, Roland Juno 60/106... the list and speaker models, distortions, dynamics
baby.
Trilian covers every aspect of bass design, from goes on. They'd cost thousands of pounds if processors, equalizers and more.
synth bass tones to acoustic and electric basses purchased for your studio — now they can all Users can also open the Trilian sound library
A fantastic virtual
— every bass sound you’d need from a virtual be experienced from one plug-in. in Spectrasonics other flagship synthesiser
instrument that
synth. With over 60 different electric basses Omnisphere. This will allow for even further
improves on the original
Trilogy idea, and takes it
represented in their various styles (fingered,
INFINITELY ADAPTABLE
synthesis.
into another dimension.
picked, fretless, slapped, tapped and muted), Editing with Trilian is infinitely adaptable. Overall, this is a monster of a software
there are a huge variety of sounds for any Extremely powerful editing controls, allowing instrument — it offers a degree of sound
musical genre. Who needs a bassist when you all sorts of custom tweaking to the sounds, control and possibilities that will be very hard
have this? include the FlexMod modulation system, Dual to top.
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