

The guys at Spectrasonic used hundreds of synth sound sources to create the base sounds, emulating some of the world’s most exotic and coveted hardware synthesizers, from the original Moog Minimoog and Taurus Pedals, to the latest analogue modular synthesizers like Novation’s Bass Station, Yamaha CS-80, Korg MS-20, ARP 2600, Roland Juno 60/106, Waldorf Pulse, the classic Roland TB-303, SH-101, and many more. In fact, some of the sub bass sounds, and the bass growls, were truly stomach churning. Trilian features some pretty hefty filter and oscillating effects, and the resonance and modulation is ideal for electronic genres.

OK, real guitarists will argue otherwise, but it is damn good.įor the dance market, the synth bass sounds are something else. With careful playing techniques and a few of my little production secrets, I was hard pushed to tell that this was a soft synth.
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The acoustic bass has got to be one of the most detailed software recreations that I have heard, offering tons of control and musical expression - it actually sounds as if you’re playing a real acoustic bass guitar, and that goes for the electric basses, too. Who needs a bassist when you have Trilian? With over sixty different four, five, six and eight string electric basses represented in their various styles (fingered, picked, fretless, slapped, tapped, and muted), there are a huge variety of sounds for any musical genre. Trilian covers every aspect of bass design, from synth bass tones, to acoustic and electric basses - every bass sound you’d need from a virtual synth, in fact. Once installed and played with (it will take some time to really get to know it inside out, because of the immense scale), it feels like the floor has opened up. In addition, new sound banks have been posted up on their website for users to download. Make no bones about it: Trilian is a beast, that boasts a massive 34GB core library featuring highly detailed Acoustic, Electric and Synth basses as well as enhanced versions of the classic Trilogy sounds. Back in the day, nearly every producer who was using softsynths would claim to have used Trilogy to death, as it sounded absolutely amazing and had a huge wealth of bass sounds to satisfy every need.īut Triology has been around for some time now, and newer products have begun to catch up on this marvellous plug-in not to rest on their laurels, Spectrasonics have been busy totally redesigning Trilogy. Spectrasonics are back with a vengeance with Trilian, the very long-awaited follow-up to their Trilogy Bass Softsynth.
