Cakewalk...please make this!!!!

Not sure if this will work for you or if you even have the program but the Zeta Alembic preset is a nice little bass goodie I stumbled upon the other day and due to the highly tweakable nature of Zeta I could see getting something close to what you want from it.

Meh... worth a look anyway.

See this is why I'm secure in the knowledge a true string player will not be able to be replaced by a computer anytime soon. They can get close but there are just some things that cannot be duplicated without a little flesh and nail.

;-)

All good ideas for sure but really the long way around...sometimes there is something to having a well written patch that simply inspires you to play it...

My mistake was having ever playing the TRILIAN demo in the first place. lol..
Simply inspirational and gorgeous just the way it sits in the basic patch!!!

Have you tried the Dimension Pro patches? I thought I remembered hearing some good sounds there...

It's a tricky one to imitate. If you have ever actually played a Dog House Bass you'd know that there's a million different sounds that come out of one. Both your left and Right hands have this huge range of control over the attach, tone and dynamics. Then try and play in pitch!! 
A good Acoustic Bass synth should randomly go off pitch a titch. . :) 
I had one for years and let it go to kid who was going to College and needed one. I don't really miss it 'cause it took up a lot of studio space. The strings needed replacing @ $300 too.  

SO I'd gladly pay $300 for a synth that emulated one.. but I can't see how you would manipulate all those subtle tones, slaps and slides. 

Of course you could pay a real bass player to do the same thing, but that would be unheard of in these parts..... 

The Cakewalk Sound Center is nothing but a DimPro and Rapture player. You can load the Cakewalk Sound Center Acoustic Bass sfz into 64bit DimPro to avoid using bitbridge.

So, can't argue that most acoustic instruments don't translate "realistically" via MIDI and sample libraries.  But, some libraries produce better results than others.  I think we all are just looking for passable sounds for our instruments.

Whether it be drums (cymbals can be played in an infinite number of ways) but we get a few articulations that we need to make work in a mix or guitar tracks (forget about strumming chords with realistic rhythms and techinique.

So, if you want a realistic bass part, depending on how realistic, I agree you need to record the bass LIVE.  But if you just want a passable bass part, some libraries are better than others.  Perhaps some day, audio to MIDI translations can advance to the point where cc data is used to translate all the little stuff that makes a real track sound real.  I use a MIDI guitar controller and even slides between notes get translated but not translated well (a combination of low velocity passing notes and pitch bend data is what shows up in a MIDI track when sliding between notes) and yes, most MIDI guitar interfaces are really audio to MIDI real time translators).

Jim