Hi everyone, just looking for suggestions about what you might be using for higher quality Bass Guitar samples.
I'm looking to purchase something possibly better than what I have been using. My favourite so far has been "Scarbee MM Bass" which came included with NI Komplete 9 . . . what I like about it, is how it easily sits in a mix without much major tweaking, easy to dial in the bottom end frequencies.
 
So far, my internet searching has discovered the following:
Spectrasonics Trilian . . . the online demos are amazing, seems very easily playable on a keyboard, but it's by far the most expensive option, but is it the best ?
NI Scarbee Rickenbacker . . . the user interface is so cool, a picture based interface, seems so easy to get a sound quickly, very flexible presets. but the demos seem sound a bit stiff ?
Orange Tree Samples - Cherry Bass . . . from the demos, this seems to have the best "palm mute" sound that I would use a lot, though the interface is overlay simplistic, this could be a good or bad thing ?
Orange Tree Samples -  Evolution Rick . . . very large sample library, very deep, lots of varied presets, seems kind of klunky to play ?
 
The demos and reviews of these Bass sample libraries are really hard to compare without downloading some kind of demo option, sadly, there don't seem to be any demo versions available . . . so the online demos are the best guess as to what they are really like.
 
Any suggestions, preferences, and experiences you can offer would be most appreciated . . . I do mostly pop music and orchestral type productions.
 

I have all you listed... While Trillian has a zillion options, huge library, and some very nice synth basses, I virtually always go with OT's Rick bass... sounds awesome, has a geddy lee sound that's just wicked (mostly use it in poly not mono) and the setups are truly awesome.
 
His Jaco is very nice also but man, I always end up the Rick...

Spectrasonics Trilian is my goto but I also use the above listed and others. The material/song will dictate which I end up using.
 
It would be hard to go wrong with Trilian as it will give you a huge sound palette to start from.

OrangeTree's are probably the best sampled basses available at the moment. Ilya Efimov has some that are close, but not quite as flexible.
 
For synth basses, Trillian (or Omnisphere) are probably the most bang for your buck. There are also many dedicated synth VSTi's (like Massive, Zebra, Blue II, and so on) that all do synth bass of one kind or another.
 
The Scarbee stuff in Komplete is quite good, but there are only limited articulations in them which limits how expressive a performance you can get out of them, but for basic bass tracks, they are quite good.
 
Regards,
Dan
 

Trilian is amazing, especially in terms of range and flexibility. There is just about every bass sound you can imagine there from Fenders all the way through analog synth basses and even a Chapman stick. It also has loads of top quality effects, sound shaping options and a great arpeggiator.

I love OT's Rick and Cherry (and Upright Acoustic) Basses. I also use NI's Scarbee Pre and Jay basses quite often. Trillian sounds amazing, but the price has kept me from purchasing. 
You might want to consider Ample Sound's basses, while I don't own them, the demos are amazing sounding, and over the years they have improved the interface from the original products.

I use Scarbee Jay-Bass. I have always been a Fender Jazz bass guy all these years and it fills the bill pretty well. Most times by the end of the project I replace the Scarbee track with me playing my Fender Jaco Pastorius clone fretless thru either GK amplification Pro or Mark Studio 2.
Most guys around here know this but just in case, I have found, as many of us have, that putting a synth bass plugin thru an amp sim makes for a more realistic sounding bass track. Maybe not for synth bass but for mimicking a real electric bass. Just a tip. LOL

As you poll virtual instrument users, you'll find that they tend to have multiple bass sources/libraries, as borne out by the comments so far. The reason for this is that no single instrument does it all. It would help us if you cited some specific examples of the type of bass sounds and musical genres you'd like to emulate. 
 
For example, if you're after a classic pop or Motown sound, it's probably going to be a Fender Precision sample library. But if your style is more contemporary pop, you might do better with a soft synth than a sample library. My standard go-to bass is the OTS Rick, but that's because it suits my usual style. It would not be my first choice for folk, funk or jazz. 
 

Well I for one love my Alembic, P-Bass and at times my Line 6 modeled bass. 'Nuff said?
 
 
Disclaimer, I own OTS's Rick & Jaco as well as NI's Rick. But I only use them in "extreme" cases.

thepianist53
You might want to consider Ample Sound's basses, while I don't own them, the demos are amazing sounding, and over the years they have improved the interface from the original products.

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