Product
Description :
- Trilogy is a software instrument designed specifically for bass, including
plucked string bass and electric bass as well as bass synthesizer sounds. Like
its sibling products from Spectrasonics, Atmosphere and Stylus, it is both an
instrument and a sound library. There is no provision for adding individual
sounds or libraries from other sources, but this is more than adequately
compensated for by the enormous self-contained library of well-produced and
cleverly designed sounds.
Features
:
Trilogy's sound library contains 3.0 gigabytes of acoustic and electric basses and of bass synthesizer sounds, around 860 sounds in all. These have been multisampled (in some cases chromatically) at multiple dynamics and with a variety of recording techniques. For instance, the acoustic "upright" or double bass has been recorded with a Neumann U-47 tube mic through a Neve 1081 console, as well as through a direct box (DI). On close inspection, it sounds as if these recordings were done simultaneously with both mic and DI, to separate channels, so there are no small variations between the samples that might cause beats or other oddness. You can easily adjust levels and filter settings to tailor just the rights, as if you were doing a studio recording of the instrument yourself.
The acoustic basses also come in three "scalable" varieties: LITE, MED, and XXL. The latter is a portly 261.9 MB in size, but the RAM allocation is well worth it for those who seek great detail in an acoustic bass sound. This instrument has been sampled chromatically over its range, and it appears to have four different velocity layers instead of the three in the LITE version. The added detail in the XXL version is especially rewarding for solo passages when the small but discernible differences from note to note add nuance.
Within each major instrument category are a multiplicity of playing styles, articulations and "effects." The acoustic bass offers Gliss Up, Harmonics, Slides 1, Slides 2, Squeaks, Staccato, Sustain f, Sustain, mf, Sustain p, Thumps 1, Thumps 2, and Softer Release Noise. Most of these subcategories are fairly self-evident, but the final "release noise" bears some discussion.
Many of the patches in both the acoustic and electric banks are referred to as True Staccato patches. These combinations map sustaining versions to the bottom of the keyboard (B1-A#4 or 35-70) and true staccato versions to the top (B4-C8 or 71-108). These are two different sets of recordings of the same pitch, and by playing the equivalent notes in alternation it is possible to add variety and nuance to repeated-note passages. In fact, since there are three velocity layers per note, there are six different recordings of each pitch, per layer. The attack and sustain portion of the sound and the release noise are in separate layers, so the balance between them may be adjusted and they can be individually processed.
Other patches are called Full Range versions. These are assigned to a much wider range of MIDI notes, from A-2 to E5 (0-76), with no accompanying staccato versions. It may seem that calling this "full range" is a misnomer, since the note assignment leaves out the top four+ octaves, but it helps to think of "full" in this case as representing the full range of the physical instrument. It is possible, in fact, to design patches where the pitch of the bass extends high into the soprano range, just by setting the Pitch parameter to a higher value (it has a range of +/- semitones).
While the samples for the acoustic bass banks have has been recorded and organized for the most part to produce a rich and subtle instrument sound, the electric basses explore a wider timbral range and variety of playing styles. Electric basses are grouped into banks of Fingered, Fretless, Muted, Picked, and Slapped and each of these has a variety of subcategories. For instance, Fretless has Doubled Stereo, Hollow, Jaco, Slow and Wide; Slapped has Finger Funk, Modern Slap, Old School Slap. Within each of these are even more variations. There are 31 choices within the Jaco group alone!
The final main category of sounds is Synth Bass, and this is subdivided into Patches and Waveforms. The former take full advantage of Trilogy's processing and modulation features, while the latter are raw material. The Patches bank includes 20 subcategories with names such as Acidic, Benders, Drones, Mean and Nasty, Moog and Oberheim Classics, an X-mod Complex, and each of these has a number of related patches. Because they aren't emulating physical instruments, these patches have been mapped to the full MIDI note range. This allows them to also serve as lead instruments or even for chordal functions.
With such an enormous variety and sheer number of choices, the Trilogy Core Library is an aural banquet, but because these sounds can be layered and tweaked by the user there is also virtually unlimited expandablility. Even considering that there is no provision for a user to add custom samples, or to import additional libraries, the bases are so well covered that this should not be a problem.
The only thing I feel is lacking in the library is a set of arco (bowed) sounds for the acoustic bass. The reason for this omission is fairly clear, since most likely customers would use only plucked or keyboard bass sounds. I, on the other hand, am used to working with jazz and avant garde players who freely mix pizzicato and arco with astounding facility. I hanker for the ability to simulate this with Trilogy.
สรุปความสามารถ
และการใช้งาน :
Triology ตัวนี้เป็น VSTi เสียงเบสต่างๆ ทั้ง Acoustic , Electric , Synth Basses ที่ใช้เทคนิคการบันทึกเสียงเบสต่างๆผ่านไมค์ และลบเสียงรบกวนออกหมดแล้ว มีเสียงเบสต่างๆให้เลือกเยอะมากๆ ใช้พื้นที่ในการติดตั้งประมาณ 3 GB และกินสเปคคอมฯไม่มากเกินไป
โปรแกรมนี้มีหน้าต่างเดียว จึงง่ายต่อการควบคุม และที่สำคัญ Triology สามารถผสมเสียงเบสให้เป็น 2 Layers ได้ด้วย (ซ้อนเสียง) ทำให้เสียงเบสที่เราต้องการมีความแน่น คมชัด และพุ่งมากขึ้น ซึ่งเป็นเทคนิคเด็ดเลยของโปรแกรมนี้ และยังมีฟังก์ชั่นปรับเสียงต่างๆมากมายอีกด้วย
โปรแกรมจำหน่ายในราคาประมาณ 319 U.S.$ ถือว่าไม่แพงเลย สำหรับเสียงเบสเกือบพันรูปแบบ ทั้งผสมเสียง ทั้งเทคนิค Release Note ที่เลียนแบบการเล่นเบสผ่านตู้แอมป์จริงๆอีกด้วย
ในความคิดส่วนตัวของผม ถือว่าเป็น VSTi Plug-in เสียงเบสของโปรดเลยทีเดียวครับ
แหล่งข้อมูล
:
www.spectrasonics.net
ค้นข้อมูล
แปล ทดสอบและเรียบเรียงโดย นายวิทยา พรพัชรพงศ์ guitarcoolthailand@gmail.com