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!
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.
@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!
@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.
@Ben, trilian is probably my favorite for all around bass sounds, it’s so deep. I love the orange tree stuff though, it sounds amazing and plays amazing, plus it cost a lot less.
@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
@Ben, those are the “player” versions, they will not work. Well, they will, for 30 minutes in demo mode, but then they will time out and you’ll have to restart.
This system Sounds Great nice Cords
@Jon, thanks for checking it out fam
Whats up fam see ya made it back from Namm this bass sounds really authentic have to get kontakt cause I’m moving over to Mac
@Mehdo, Kontakt works on Mac or PC doesn’t matter which one you use 🙂
great stuff and great to have you back from NAMM…yeah that VST has great amazing bass, almost like a real bass guitar Lol! Peace
@Terence, yeah man, it’s amazing for real
This is always needed.thanx homes.
@sky, no doubt fam, thanks
bass sounds good bro
@Mike, yeah, I dig it
Just downloaded it bro. Sounds good but need to play with it awhile. . Hope to do something funky with it.
@Madbull Studios, My brotha!
Yes indeed man, he killing it with the instruments fam!
SJ: The sounds coming out of this edition seem “Dead-On”. I really like this one. Thanks for the “peep”.
@Baddboy2000, yeah fam, he has some dope stuff
Nice indeed! Excellent review!
@DanielT, thanks for watching, sounds great!
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
@richard, yeah man, that’s why I like showing stuff like this, really some gems man!
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)
That means that it will only trigger that articulation when the velocity is between those settings.
So you’re saying the fingered articulation sounds the same played at 60 or 127?
The articulation will trigger when you hit that specific velocity, it allows you to customize the playing so you can play soft/hard and decide which articulations you trigger. So if you want to have it come in when you press harder, then you set it higher, if you want it to trigger when you play software you set the range lower.
Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions.
No problem, glad to help!
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.
I’d suggest increasing the audio buffer on your audio interface to see if that helps
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!
In that case, I’d suggest a better audio interface that would allow you to run at a low buffer without the cracks and pops.
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.
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.
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!
Interesting man, not sure doesn’t seem like you should be having any issues. May want to contact them and see if they have any advice.