On the heel's of last month's free giveaway, Craig Anderton has created a brand new, stunning Gibson EB 5-String Bass Expansion Pack for Dimension Pro. Regularly $39.99, we are selling it through Feb. 28 for only $19.99.
 
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Craig has also put together a blog article which details the creation of this very special expansion pack.

Hey Andrew - Fixed the typo, it's EB, not Eb
 
Thanks for putting up the audio example! I'll see about generating some more demos, I have some complete songs that use the bass so it gives good context.

Oh crap... did I miss the freebie? I thought it was still Guitar Month. I was looking at that a couple days ago but had other (extremely boring) stuff to do.
 
/sad panda

Is this the same as the freebie?

rontarrant
Is this the same as the freebie?

Not at all! The freebie was me messing around with one of the EB 5-String's eight "native" sounds...some of the notes were synthesized, they were all looped, etc.. But I liked the results, so offered it to the community as a freebie to say "thank you."
 
The new collection is a much more thorough exploitation of the EB. I sampled all 8 sound to create 8 different instruments, with each note sampled individually and allowed to sustain. I wrote a blog post about the process with a lot more information. I also created an additional 8 "growl" instruments that are variations on the original 8 with a more aggressive tone.
 
The mod wheel emulates pulling back on the tone control, and there are 5 down slides, 5 up/down slides, and 1 FX included in the octave below the Low B.
 
My goal was to create as pure and realistic a sound as possible of the eight different EB "native" sounds so that with subsequent processing (EQ, amp sim, distortion, etc.) they could fit into a wide range of productions. The bottom line is I really like the sound of the EB 5-String, and wanted to have a full set of samples so I could use them in my own projects.
 
There's an audio example (with more to come!) on the store page.

Wow! That sounds like very thorough coverage of the instrument; I don't think I've run across slides in any other bass instrument, but I haven't really dug that deep into any of them yet.
 
Thanks for the reply, Craig.

will there be any freeb's for bass month ?
 
thanks

chuckebaby
will there be any freeb's for bass month ?
 
thanks

Don't know yet, it took a lot of time to do the Expansion Pack! But, the month isn't over yet
 
BTW - the blog post on the expansion pack now has four audio examples; here are the links to the audio examples that are hosted on SoundCloud. The "Growl" patches are explained in the blog post. Let me know if you have any questions about the examples.
 
Neck+Bridge Instrument
 
Tapped Neck Instrument
 
Tapped Bridge Growl Instrument
 
Neck+Tapped Bridge Instrument

Craig,  I bought the pack this week and have listened to and played with most of the pack.  Wow.  Fantastic sounds that jump off my monitors!
 
Thank you so much for your efforts to this project.  I will enjoy building sounds and such with the goodies.

Just downloading now. It'll be nice to be able to use bass sounds in Sonar rather than having to boot up Propellerhead Reason to use the Reason Bass Refill each time I make a track!
 
Grum.