You guys are too kind! Honestly a lot of useful features are due to user suggestions and feedback from beta testers.

I own both and have to say I'm loving the Orange Tree product. To me those presets are brilliant, and a little instant gratification goes a long way. There's been some discussion about one being picked and one being fingered, but I can get the OT bass to be as nasty as I want. It's simply brilliant and well worth the money.

I just ordered a few sets of new strings so I can sample the picked version of the Rick next. It'll be a lot of work, but at least the script and interface is already together. ;)

Greg,  if we still have your attention, is there any plan to update the excellent Jaco bass?

While I don't currently have an update scheduled for the Jaco bass, I DO want to make an update for it. A more modern script, like the one in EEB Rick, would be a big improvement, and I think it would actually be able to utilize the samples themselves better. For example, I sampled a whole layer of sustains that have more of that buzz/mwah sound. The current script uses the samples when playing slides, but I think giving the user more direct access to all those samples would be better.

Here's the first of the tutorial videos for Evolution Electric Bass - Rick. There are many more on their way, so if you're subscribed to our YouTube channel, you can watch them as soon as they're available.

Video Tutorial: "Evolution Electric Bass Rick - Presets"

Evolution Electric Bass - Rick includes a very easy-to-use and flexible system for mapping the articulations how you want. There's also another video tutorial coming soon about how the priorities work in the mapping system.

Video Tutorial: "Evolution Electric Bass Rick - Mapping System"

The mapping system video I posted yesterday covered the basics of how the mapping system works. This video goes over how the priorities in the mapping system work:

Video Tutorial: "Evolution Electric Bass Rick - Mapping Priorities"

I'd just like to say to anyone watching these videos who hasn't used this type of instrument before and may be thinking that it looks too complicated, it's really not. I don't have the Rick yet, but I have other OTS products and IMO the articulation scripting in Greg's products is very straightforward and logical. (At least, from the user's perspective; I'm sure the code is a nightmare.)

Thanks for the recommendation, Bitflipper. I think the trickiest part to "get" in the sample library is the priorities in the mapping section. In other words, if you play a note that qualifies for more than one articulation (for example, if they're mapped on overlapping ranges), it won't play both articulations simultaneously, but prioritize one over the other to play. Hopefully the video tutorial I made on that concept will help, though.
 
Here's a video tutorial on the memory options in Evolution Electric Bass Rick. These memory options will load and unload samples as needed, giving you flexibility with how much RAM the patch uses.

Video Tutorial: "Evolution Electric Bass Rick - Memory Options"