Toontrack Americana EBX Expansion

Product Description

The Toontrack Americana EBX Expansion comes with a classic American brand bass sampled in two fundamentally different ways: one by using a traditional finger playing style and the other by muting the strings with rubber foam and striking with the thumb.

Although it’s had its foothold deeply rooted in the folk, gospel, blues, soul, country, jazz and rock songwriting tradition, Americana music has kept evolving and become a huge umbrella under which anything that doesn’t quite fit the commercial country music mold can thrive. This EBX was tailored to bring you a workhorse-type expansion that functions in all these scenarios – for anything from small and acoustic setups to full-on electric rock instrumentations.

In addition to the sounds, a broad collection of presets as well as a custom MIDI library of basslines are included.

If you’re looking to boost your EZbass with a jeans-and-t-shirt-type expansion that works in any scenario, this is it. No frills or extras, just good old rock and roll, folk, gospel, blues and, well, the entire mosaic of styles that can be traced back to Americana.

THE SOUNDS & ARTICULATIONS

Since the Americana EBX sets out to capture the broadest possible definition of the genre, it includes both an option sampled using the traditional finger style (‘Finger’) close to the bridge as well as one that was recorded using the thumb near the neck together with rubber foam mounted between the strings (‘Thumb Muted’). This gives you two completely opposite sonic approaches to the same instrument – one open and round with an abundance of sustain and one that is dry, muffled and virtually void of any decay.

THE PRESETS

The included presets primarily hone in on round, warm and mid-centric settings, giving you a perfect palette of tones that can be traced back to anything from the rocking sound of Tom Petty and Neil Young to the more bare bones-type approach heard in songs by the likes of Emmylou Harris and Gillian Welch. To further give you the option of easy external processing, clean direct input (DI) presets for both the ‘Finger’ and ‘Thumb Muted’ options are of course included.

THE MIDI

The included MIDI library presents a repertoire of basic basslines inspired by Americana music of then and now. Expect a fundamental collection that you can use the onboard MIDI features in EZbass to customize, slice and dice to fit your already written songs or use as a creative springboard for your yet-to-be-written pieces.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

• 1.2 GB free disk space
• 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended)
• A working EZbass 1.0.6 (or above) installation
• Bit Depth: 64-bit

MAC

• OS X 10.9 or later
• Intel Core 2 Duo or higher

WINDOWS

• Windows 7 SP1 or later
• Intel Core 2 Duo / AMD Athlon 64 X2 or higher