They are pretty amazing!

I keep telling people don't even hesitate on these...they're GOLD!!!

Man this Apr 3rd deadline on the deals I've been watching is killing me today, LOL!!!
 
First this morning, grabbed some new ADpacks for AD2, and now considering this new Bass Riffer before time runs out.  All GASsed up!!!

  I'm having a hard time convincing myself to get this. I just got Modo Bass a couple of weeks ago and I have NI Scarbee Pre-Bass and Jay-Bass,as well as Sonivox Classic Bass.I'm happy with the basses I have,I really just want the Riffer feature,I wish they sold the Riffer feature seperately(maybe expand it a bit).

I can tell you that I've been waiting for a good sale on MODO, 
but NOW that I've got the Ample Basses with the riffer...chances
of my other basses EVER getting used are slim to nill...

They SOUND like real basses...and the riffer just puts the icing on the
Cake(walk)   C What I do'ed there?

OK, so I pulled the trigger on the Ample Metal Ray5.  I was trying to decide between that and the Fodera Yinyang.
 
I found a review on the Yinyang that mentioned it had a lot of great articulations and was great for a solo, but that it was harder to fit into a mix.
 
So I tried the trial of the Ample P-Bass with the riffer.  The riffer is great, but I already have the free Ample P-Bass Lite, so I wanted a different sound.  I did consider the J-Bass (hey, it's good enough for Geddy Lee!), but I thought I would stick with one of the two newest models.  Besides, I already have a real P-Bass.
 
I like the sound of the Metal Ray, and it is a lot brighter sounding that the P-Bass, but I assume that has a lot to do with the active electronics it was sampled from.  So both of the new Ample electric basses are based on active bass models, compared to the standard P-Bass and J-Bass which are passive.  If you EQ the sound some you can dull it down. 
 
So the AMR doesn't seem to have a finger mode, just picked, but I found another way around that ...
 
Reading the manual pays off!!!  There is an option for "MIDI Out" that sends out all MIDI generated by the plugin, including the Riffer.  You turn that option on, and you can then set any other plugin in your DAW to use the Ample plugin as MIDI input.  It even works fine with the free Ample P-Bass, which gets that nice fat fingered sound rockin' the riffs!
 
I even tried the Riffer with bass synth presets in Z3TA+2, SynthMaster, and Hybrid.  What a monster!  Just find a kickass bass preset, like a big fat analog bass and have some fun!!!
 
I'm really liking this!!! 

Plus I counted over 700 riffs included in my install too! Nice!
 

cclarry
I can tell you that I've been waiting for a good sale on MODO, 
but NOW that I've got the Ample Basses with the riffer...chances
of my other basses EVER getting used are slim to nill...

They SOUND like real basses...and the riffer just puts the icing on the
Cake(walk)   C What I do'ed there?

 I've had my eye on the Ample Sound basses for a while and remember seeing something about the riffer feature last month but,wanted to wait until I heard more about it. In the mean time I found out that I qualified for the crossgrade on Modo and there was a sale a couple of weeks ago and I got Modo for around $150.

StevenMikel

cclarry
I can tell you that I've been waiting for a good sale on MODO, 
but NOW that I've got the Ample Basses with the riffer...chances
of my other basses EVER getting used are slim to nill...

They SOUND like real basses...and the riffer just puts the icing on the
Cake(walk)   C What I do'ed there?

I've had my eye on the Ample Sound basses for a while and remember seeing something about the riffer feature last month but,wanted to wait until I heard more about it. In the mean time I found out that I qualified for the crossgrade on Modo and there was a sale a couple of weeks ago and I got Modo for around $150.

Think of it this way.  You pay $89 (last day today) for the riffer, and they throw in a bass for free.
 
The riffer is real.  And like I found, with MIDI out, it can be used with any MIDI instrument.

The interesting thing about Riffer is each string can be output on its own MIDI channel and the Amplesound basses respond to this. ( Midi guitar mode.)

Riffer is like a piano roll editor but instead of a keyboard its a fretboard. Controller data and key switch data gets generated when selecting articulations. It would benefit with some further development but its pretty nifty now.

One thing that I hope gets enhanced with future development is that the riffer includes other scale modes, such as minor keys, etc.  All of the riffs provided apparently use a major key, and you can transpose freely among them, but what if you want to use a minor key?  I noticed that you can click on individual notes in the riffer view and change them, so if you know the degree of the scale notes that you need to change you could manually edit, but why not have it to begin with?