The strings can be set to four (with drop D option) or five in number, switched between round and flat wound, and light, medium and heavy gauge, and even aged - Old, New or Broken In, influencing sustain and brightness. This individually models the body, strings and electronics of the chosen instrument, the last two of which are editable in the Strings and Electronics tabs. When you want take advantage of the physical modelling engine to design your own bass, the first thing to do is select one of 12 guitars in the Model page (see The dirty dozen). It’s a quality collection, for sure - these are some of the most influential and lauded basses of all time, and any bassist would kill to own all of them. Beyond those stalwarts, the other eight can be roughly divided into ‘vintage’ (50s, 60s and 70s) and ‘modern’ (80s) categories, the former consisting of the Gibson EB-0, Rickenbacker 4003, Gibson Thunderbird and Höfner Violin, the latter taking in the Music Man StingRay 5, Warwick Streamer, Ibanez Soundgear and Yamaha TRB5P.
And although you can mix and match their innards as you see fit in the Electronics page, bringing active circuitry to previously passive-only instruments and experimenting with pickup pairings, they all sound fantastic in their default configurations.Īs you’d expect, both of Fender’s legendary lines are represented in the shape of the 60s and 70s Precision, and 70s and Modern Jazz models. While the keyswitches can’t be edited, the assignment of MIDI CCs to Bend, Slide, Muting, Pluck Position, Vibrato and other performance parameters can, making MIDI controller linkage a straightforward, painless process.Įvery one of the 12 modelled bass guitars at the heart of Modo Bass is a classic in its own right, between them delivering a comprehensive history of bottom-heavy tones. The 14 keyswitches (toggling many of the Play Style options, plus Ghost note, Hammer On/Pull Off, Harmonics, etc) are annotated in the Control tab on an interactive graphical keyboard. The right hand playing position, meanwhile, is shifted between the bridge and neck by dragging the orange marker on the central graphic. Three keyswitchable playing styles are onboard - Finger, Pick and Slap - while the other controls in the Play Style tab let you adjust the ‘touch’ strength, fingering (index, middle or alternating), pick direction (up, down or alternating), slap style (all slap, all pull, or slap with automatic pull for notes over a specified velocity), left hand fretboard positioning, slide and release noise, amount of string muting applied and more. Modo Bass includes a sizeable preset library, so getting busy with it can be as simple as loading one and triggering it from your MIDI keyboard or piano roll editor.
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