Upright bass sample libraries

I know I missed out on the group by from Orangetree, and I'm still not sure if I'm kicking myself - I liked the Pear Bass sounds, but not that they sounded out of tune with other instruments in Orangetree's demos!

Without getting a huge package like Trillian, are there libraries I should be checking out? I *don't* want an all encompassing bass package, as I'm a bassist myself - I *only* have a need for the upright sounds, so I don't want to go over the top!

TIA

The yellow tools upright basses are  pretty good....free player with a few very nice samples which already include some of the mexican bass set and a reasonable cost for the upright sounds. The yellow tools INDE free runs very solid with my Sonar 5. Exceptional classical guitar sample included as well.

I think the Larry Seyer bass is the best upright bass instrument on the planet today! I have the old GS version, and I'm still searching for a player to replace GS, since it is a dead product, and maintaining a second computer just to run a dead product seems, well, counter-productive<G>!

Larry is selling a VI version, and if I hadn't already purchased it once I'd leap at the chance. I just have this thing about purchasing the same thing twice. Not Larry's fault by any stretch, he's got a business to run, and the new VI certainly took some development time, it's just one of my quirks.

In the meantime, the second best upright bass is a toss-up between Dan Dean, OrangeTree, and AcoustiKSamples, at least as far as I've been able to tell. Manybass has one that's pretty darned good as well.

Ultimately I opted for the Dan Dean collection - driven mostly by my bottom-feeder approach to things - it's the No-Brainer deal at AudioMIDI.com at the moment - and from the looks of things it's pretty popular. I have not yet been able to actually download the library - their server must be swamped! Last night their entire site was timing out, today it's a little better, so I'm optimistic.

Definitely worth checking out!

bmdaustin
You might want to look into G-Player for your Giga libraries. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of GS3, but it does a good job with regular libraries and doesn't require GSIF or any of that other stuff. It's a regular VSTi.

I am currently working with both G-Player and LinuxSampler to see what libraries I might be able to salvage from my GS adventure.  Thus far they seem neck and neck, although the G-Player interface is far simpler to use (no great surprise there - it's a Linux thing<G>!)

There are two issues, the first is playing back old projects that used GS. That's been less than a stellar success, but it's a tedious process to update the project to use the new player. The second is, of course, new projects, and that is working a bit better.

Sadly (stupidly?) I removed many of my GS libraries after I translated them, so now I have to re-load them, and I just haven't felt that energetic yet...

Even so, I am feeling guardedly optimistic at the moment.

wst3

bmdaustin
You might want to look into G-Player for your Giga libraries. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of GS3, but it does a good job with regular libraries and doesn't require GSIF or any of that other stuff. It's a regular VSTi.

I am currently working with both G-Player and LinuxSampler to see what libraries I might be able to salvage from my GS adventure. 

Do you have GS3 libs or GS2? If GS2 just grab Kontakt if you don't already have it, or maybe you can get it on NI's 50% off crossgrade/upgrade sale during June (if you have a qualifying player product)... GIG import (I should say "translation") is pretty good to get you started. Speaking of Larry Seyer... I bought the GIG version myself a few years back, imported into Kontakt 1.5 and made my own performance patches.
 
Other than that, you could try SampleLord, which is supposed to read and play GIG files in-place (i.e., no conversion)... http://www.samplelord.com/index.php?page=samplelord

I think both Kontakt 4 and Majestic have really great upright basses. If you can get a hold of the old Plugsound Free VST (discontiued a long time ago) it has a pretty nice sounding one as well.