Karniszbass

Karniszbass is a sample library of an acoustic 2-string bass built around a curtain rod (in Polish, „karnisz”).

The two strings are tuned to D (a whole step below a standard bass’s low E) and G (a fourth above that D).

Though tuned low, this instrument can produce some very high pitches via harmonics, and this library is more about textures than a normal bass playing normal bass parts.

Please note: Requires the free Plogue Sforzando sampler, which works on 64-bit Windows and Mac systems, 4 GB RAM, and an SSD.

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(2 customer reviews)

Developer

Karoryfer Samples

Size

1.46 GB

Format

Karniszbass - Born from Curtain Rods, Made for Sonic Shadows

The instrument was originally built by Peter Lyczkowski for a production of Hamlet, where it was used mainly to bow drones and harmonics. See https://www.peterlyczkowski.com/music/ for a short video about that Hamlet, and a list of the awards it won.

Karniszbass GUI

Key Features

  • Techniques sampled: long bowed, short bowed, long sul ponticello, short sul ponticello, harmonics with and without rebows, spectral scrubs, pluck with ghost notes, slap with ghost notes, various noises.
  • Harmonics blend and texture blend patches.
  • Release noises.
  • Acoustic sound produced using a cajon for resonance, and recorded with two separate microphones.

2 reviews for Karniszbass

  1. José O. (verified owner)

    Un buen recurso, me gustan las articulaciones “experimentales”

  2. Randy (verified owner)

    Fun, interesting instrument to mess around with- will certainly find many spaces in my tunes that the Karniszbass can ably fill. So happy I toke the chance on it. Process was easy, price was great, and sounds fab!

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