I'm going to start recording some music again and with lockdown in London right now, I won't be able to get my hands on a bass guitar for a good few weeks. Are there any bass simulators that you could plug a midi track into? Free options preferably!
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Forgot to mention, you can get a di from it so if you feel you want to run with other plugins to get a more custom sound you can do that no problems. A neat feature I used occasionally.I use Loki from solemn tones. It honestly sounds rather good, and is dead easy to use. Not the most customizable sound, but you have 3 or 4 good tones. For the money I think it's well worth it.
Not free but I really like Ample Metal Ray5. I'ts the most user friendly since you can import tab directly and it has an interface where you can write in 8 bars of tab and then drop the midi into your DAW. Being able to visualise the whole bass line, forcing strings, changing velocities, slides, legato, vibrato etc without having to touch the piano roll makes it a much easier experience.
Can i use it like this: use ample to to write 8 bars then drop it in a track in cubase with djinn bass for the DI and then use parallax? I really struggle to programm bass lines with the piano roll but I still want the djinn bass DI/parallax combo...
I don’t think so because ample bass has midi data written in on each note to tell it what string to play on and how it’s played. It could create problems with the midi map Djinn bass uses by triggering unwanted effects.
Can also octave down a guitar into a bass amp sim
I'm surprise nobody have recommend Submission Audio Djinnbass, Eurobass or Impact Studio's Nuclear Bass. And those are the stuffs audio engineer often use in their actual mix.