Steinberg Virtual Bassist Operation Manual
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Virtual Bassist Operation Manual by Wolfram Knelangen
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Virtual Bassist 2 The information in this documentation is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. The software described by this document is subject to a License Agreement and may not be copied to other media. No part of this publication may be copied, reproduced, or otherwise transmit- ted or recorded, for any purpose, without prior written permission by Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. All product and company...
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Virtual Bassist 3 ENGLISH Table of contents 4On bass… 5Congratulations! 6What is Virtual Bassist ? 7How does Virtual Bassist work ? 8What you can and can’t do with Virtual Bassist 8Register your software ! 9The Steinberg Key 11System requirements (PC version) 11Installing Virtual Bassist (PC version) 12System requirements (Mac version) 12Installing Virtual Bassist (Mac version) 13Activating the Steinberg Key 14Setting up Virtual Bassist as a VST Instrument in your host application 15Setting up...
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Virtual Bassist 4 On bass… The Virtual Guitarist product line has changed the way many people produce their music – or talk to guitarists. Because of the success and positive recognition of Virtual Guitarist from hobby to high-profile users, Virtual Bassist has been an obvious item on the to-do list for a long time. In the end, it took three years for it to finally hit the shelves. As a Virtual Guitarist user, you will notice that the long wait brought im- provements as well. The engine we now...
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Virtual Bassist 5 ENGLISH Congratulations! Virtual Bassist is your own personal bass player, allowing you to choose between 30 fulfilling styles with perfect sound, perfect timing, and the ability to flexibly adapt the playing to suit most musical needs. Virtual Bassist will easily add professional-sounding bass guitar tracks to your projects, without the need for a real bass player, and you get a perfect take every time. Even if you use real bassists in your music as well, Virtual Bassist...
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Virtual Bassist 6 What is Virtual Bassist ? Technically speaking, Virtual Bassist is a software instrument that can be used stand-alone or in any VST, DXi, AU or ReWire compatible host application under Windows or Mac OS X. Virtual Bassist comes with a variety of electric bass guitar Styles, each fitting a certain musi- cal style and is ready-to-go with the correct sound and phrases as well as a selection of Fills and controls. Musically speaking, Virtual Bassist plays itself, all you have to...
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Virtual Bassist 7 ENGLISH How does Virtual Bassist work ? Virtual Bassist doesn’t use single-note samples or synthesis to imitate reality. The result would be extremely artificial, if you’ve ever tried to simulate bass playing on a MIDI keyboard you’ll know exactly what we’re talking about. Perhaps surprisingly, the Virtual Bassist concept is much simpler. It is based on a huge library of audio tracks recorded by real living bass players. This means the results are genuine bass...
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Virtual Bassist 8 What you can and can’t do with Virtual Bassist Virtual Bassist has many advantages when compared with a real player: •Virtual Bassist is convenient and available at any time. •Virtual Bassist is cheap and easy and you won’t need a studio to record in. •You can save time because there’s no setup, tuning, preparation, microphone positioning, or audio recording. •Virtual Bassist doesn’t play wrong notes and there aren’t any timing problems. •You can work with several bass...
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Virtual Bassist 9 ENGLISH The Steinberg Key Please read the following section before installing the Virtual Bassist software. Included with the Virtual Bassist package, you will find an activation code for the Steinberg Key (sometimes referred to as a “dongle”), a hardware copy protection device that is part of the Virtual Bassist copy protection scheme. Virtual Bassist will not run if there is no Steinberg Key present or if this key has not been properly activated. You can ei- ther...
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Virtual Bassist 10 If you already own a Steinberg Key (e.g. for Cubase or Nuendo), you can load your Virtual Bassist license onto that, using the activation code supplied with Virtual Bassist. This way you need only one USB key for both your host and Virtual Bassist (see below). The Steinberg Key must not be plugged in before or during the installa- tion of Virtual Bassist if this is the first time you use such a key. In this case Windows will register it as new USB hardware and try to find...