Orange Tree Samples Cherry Electric Bass review

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Yo what’s good fam!

Back with another review for ya, more goodies from Orange Tree Samples

No long intro needed, today I’m checking out his updated Cherry Electric Bass

let’s peep!

So what is Cherry Electric Bass?

It’s a sampled 5 string bass library that brings together the most common playing techniques like fingered,  finger muted, slapped, picked, and picked muted….

as well as all the realistic articulations needed into a nice little kontakt instrument.

The interface is straight forward and the scripting engine makes playing it really fun and intuitive.

Plus it sounds great!

Quick Specs

  • content: 2.5GB
  • format: full version of kontakt
  • price: $99

How does it sound?

You already know! I LOVE the sound of Orange Tree products. He always manages to capture a very realistic and expressive sound.

He sampled the DI output, so you can throw your own amps and fx on it to really make it your own. But straight out the box, this thing sounds great!

I love how the scripting engine interprets your playing and automatically plays back the proper articulation. Also the fact that you can mix and match the playing styles easily from the interface to really customize your playing experience makes getting just the right bass sound fast and efficient.

Bottom line, the sound is incredible, expressive, and REAL

So what’s the final verdict?

Products like this are the very reason I started this website.

Being able to find smaller companies that have awesome products really makes me smile. The larger companies have the marketing and the reach to get their products in front of customers but I LOVE turning people onto stuff like this.

I haven’t come across a bad product in the Orange Tree collection, seriously, and I use multiple products from him quite often.

This Cherry Electric Bass gets 5 out of 5 from me, it sounds great, feels great when playing it, loads fast, and is just plain old expressive goodness to my ears!

If you want a very nice bass that doesn’t take forever to load but actually sounds realistic and is easy to play expressively, get it…period.

Go checkout the demo songs: http://orangetreesamples.com/cherry-electric-bass

leave a comment below, lemme know what ya think!

 

 

 

38 Comments

  1. Welcome back from NAMM. Thanks for shedding light on this (once again) does have a mellower sound in comparison to the Scarbee basses (to my ears any way). When listening to the review via headphones it seems as if I can detect the slight ambient “hum/buzz” of a string after it’s played, is that modeled into the sound as well? If sound Orange Tree added a lil’ extra to the package at this price point, I can help but wonder if they’ve scripted for fret/fretless necks as well.

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    • @Jamari, yeah fam, you hear it right. You can also turn on more “resonance” but yes, he captured the raw sound of the bass, down to the hum/buzz of the strings. It sounds sooooo dope LOL!

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      • @saintjoe, you cool man? just wanna ask what your fav guitar plug in is? i want electric base but real real thick low end… im’ tryna make neo soul/hip hop i play keyboard a lil bit.

        any advice much appreciated.

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          • @saintjoe, thanks man, so this cherry one? says I need full kontakt? i have the free kontakt 5 and the kontakt 4 that came with komplete 7 Elements is that gonna work? sorry if thats a dumb ass question

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  2. i shouldn’t have done it but it was worth it – just got their steel string acoustic….means ramen noodles for a week and half of a gigs paycheck – but man – wow…i want everything from this company the acoustic and electric bass, the e;lectric guitars, the flute…- but hands down this is by far the best acoustic guitar vi I’ve ever played…chord strumming definitely has a learning curve, but it sounds utterly amazing….the lead is so expressive and just plain sick sounding…straight up dope….
    lovin it – and those little “cinematique instruments” – also amazing – got a few of them last night – great stuff,,,would love to see more covarge of these two companies….my new motto is sounds before food…lol

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  3. If you set the velocity range for the fingered articulation say from 0 to 60, does this mean that you loose some part of the sound or does it mean that the sounds is “compressed” from 0 to 60 instead of 0 to 127.
    In other words, is the sound played at 60 the same as the sound you get at 127 (apart from being louder that is)

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  4. I get cackles and dropouts so bad in Abeton that it is unusable. What am I doing wrong? I’ve tried a separate instance of Kontack (with another one for piano), and the CPU goes way too high.

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  5. I can’t do that; I’m a Jazz musician. If I set the buffer to 256, the latency is barely tolerable, but I get cackles that overwhelm and overtake the music. I’d have to set it to 512 or even 2016, which obviously won’t work for me at all. Are there any tweaks to the Cherry bass (which sounds great!) that I can do to make it less resource hungry? Thank you!

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  6. Yeah, that’s on the “to buy” list, but it seems that the Cherry bass takes WAY too much computing power – for a single note! My Ivory grand piano, which is 50 gigs, and which I can play a dozen notes at a time on, does not cause these problems. I have both the Presonus Audiobox and the Kontakt Audio 6, but these are both bus powered, and that may be the root of the problem.

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    • Shouldn’t be that much of a problem with those though. Could be a bunch of fx running though I don’t remember it being very cpu intensive at all. Also could be the amount of RAM you have.

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  7. 8 gigs of RAM, plenty left in the hard drive, no effects at all. It’s really puzzling, especially since the much larger Ivory grand piano VST doesn’t do this! Thanks for the CPU info. Do you advise running it on a separate instance of Kontakt, on its own MIDI track? If so, on its own MIDI channel (with the piano being on Channel 1). Thanks for your help!

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