Ample Sound has released free updates of version 2.6 for all six of its virtual basses.
New features:

• Add Multi-Measure feature in Riffer.
• Add Clear measure, Copy Measure, Clear All features in Riffer right-click menu.
• Change Riffer UI.
• Update Riffer dice scales in Ample Metal Ray5.

Fixed bugs:

• Fix missing Slide Out on 3rd fret G string.
• Some buttons lose text label when inserting value 0.
• Sometimes note can't stop playing when played on fretboard.
• Note with high velocity breaks in Solo Mode.
• Poblems importing MIDI to Riffer.
• Logic gets stuck when dragg-and-dropping Pitch Bend from Riffer into host.
• Sometimes minor third Slide Up becomes to minor second when exporting Riff to MIDI.
• Note can be moved out of range in Riffer.
• Note cannot stop playing when moved holding shift.
• Note can change length or overlap when moved across other notes holding shift.
• Riffer cannot load preset when Preference window is closed.

All updates are free of charge for owners of corresponding Ample Bass. Users can get their updates through the MyAmpleSound webpage.
 
Read more at  [link=http://www.amplesound.net]www.amplesound.net  [/link]

Very good to see Ample Sound regularly updating their products......
 
Anyone have the Yinyang bass 2 and your thoughts on it?  

I'd guess that about 75% of my basses are either the Yinyang or Ample's upright.   I just find myself reaching for those 2 all the time. 
 

Mesh
Very good to see Ample Sound regularly updating their products......
 
Anyone have the Yinyang bass 2 and your thoughts on it?  

Just get it...that's my thoughts...

Thanks for letting us know!  I am finally almost back getting my gear up and going after i moved a few months ago.

Mesh
Very good to see Ample Sound regularly updating their products......
 
Anyone have the Yinyang bass 2 and your thoughts on it?  

I have the YY Bass and it is quite good.  Whether you use it raw or run it through Guitar Rig or Amplitube it can be seriously convincing when played well.  
 
The riffer, while very welcome, is still a work in progress to me.  I have written songs with it but the ease of use can be improved upon.  For instance, I would like a global option for key setting.  If I am writing in Am, I would like to audition the presets in Am and not have to keep switching when I change because they were programmed in other keys.
 
Overall, it don't think it is competition for Trilian and other vst's like it because it provides something very different.  It's worth adding to your arsenal IMHO.
 
Hope that helps,
 
RKS

Improvements to Riffer are welcome. The biggest thing with using Riffer as a MIDI editor is thinking like a bass player, the potential is there to sequence very realistic bass parts but as a keyboard guy its not easy to think about string selection and the like.

These are superb sounding basses I have the 5 string and the acoustic. Really useful with and without Riffer.

Thanks for the heads up.  I bought an Ample Bass (AMR) just for the riffer.
 
One thing I really like about the Ample Bass is that you can send MIDI out.  That means you can play the riffs with any bass instrument you happen to have on hand by placing it on another track, and setting the MIDI input as the output from the Ample bass.  Set up your riffer, and off you go!
 
One thing I have noticed, is that Ample sends the MIDI data over channels 1-4, or 1-5, depending on whether you have 4 or 5 string bass.  One channel per string.
 
For any instrument that you can set up as Omni input, all your strings will play.  But with SampleTank 3, I had to create a multi with an instrument for each channel 1-5.  Apparently ST3 does not let you select Omni for an individual channel slot like Kontakt will.
 
I really do like some of the bass samples in ST3, especially the Rickenbacker 4001, the P-Bass, and the Vinatge Jazz Upright.  The fingered samples are nice to have, as my Ample Bass only came with picked samples.

abacab
 
 
One thing I have noticed, is that Ample sends the MIDI data over channels 1-4, or 1-5, depending on whether you have 4 or 5 string bass.  One channel per string.
 
For any instrument that you can set up as Omni input, all your strings will play.  But with SampleTank 3, I had to create a multi with an instrument for each channel 1-5.  Apparently ST3 does not let you select Omni for an individual channel slot like Kontakt will.
 
I really do like some of the bass samples in ST3, especially the Rickenbacker 4001, the P-Bass, and the Vinatge Jazz Upright.  The fingered samples are nice to have, as my Ample Bass only came with picked samples.

Have you tried changing the Riffer export options. Open Riffer, click on the settings icon in the middle of the bottom of the Riffer screen (Cog Wheel icon). The Export mode is the top ite, the tool tip gives a detailed explanation of the two modes. I have not really tried driving other VSTi from Riffers output. I assume some data is lost due to different articulation settings.

Glyn Barnes

abacab
 
 
One thing I have noticed, is that Ample sends the MIDI data over channels 1-4, or 1-5, depending on whether you have 4 or 5 string bass.  One channel per string.
 
For any instrument that you can set up as Omni input, all your strings will play.  But with SampleTank 3, I had to create a multi with an instrument for each channel 1-5.  Apparently ST3 does not let you select Omni for an individual channel slot like Kontakt will.
 
I really do like some of the bass samples in ST3, especially the Rickenbacker 4001, the P-Bass, and the Vinatge Jazz Upright.  The fingered samples are nice to have, as my Ample Bass only came with picked samples.

Have you tried changing the Riffer export options. Open Riffer, click on the settings icon in the middle of the bottom of the Riffer screen (Cog Wheel icon). The Export mode is the top ite, the tool tip gives a detailed explanation of the two modes. I have not really tried driving other VSTi from Riffers output. I assume some data is lost due to different articulation settings.

Haven't bothered with export yet.  Using this live to drive other VST instruments, for example to use fingered vs. picked samples.
 
You can also arm the MIDI track to record the pattern directly into a MIDI clip in real-time as well.
 
The strummer in the Ample guitars has MIDI out also.  Works well too, even with the free M Lite strummer.  That can be recorded also.
 
To use this feature you must go into Ample settings and enable MIDI out, even if you have already set the VST to enable MIDI out,  You will need to enable in both places.