IK Multimedia Modo Bass 2 CS is the free version of the plugin and with this you get one free bass
guitar and it's a 60s p bass plus you get a couple of amps and some stomp boxes so
i thought i would check out this free version of Modo Bass 2 CS to see what it's all about
so that was just a few of the patterns that come with the free version of Modo Bass 2 CS
now let's look at some of the screens here and see what this is all about so this is the main screen
that you land on when you first open up the plugin and you can see up here there's some
other basses but because we're only focusing on the free version we only have the 60s p bass available
to us you can buy these other ones individually or upgrade to one of the other versions
where you'll get some more of these basses and you can switch between this keyboard view
or the fretboard view and when i'm programming the midi i like to be on the keyboard view so
i'm just going to leave it there you also have velocity settings over here you can change the bpm
it does match whatever it's set to in your DAW and then right here you can access some
of the patterns that you get with it another thing you'll notice is that these orange keys over here
are like operators if you use the black keys you can change where you're picking so you
can see it shows you where you're going to be picking when you use some of these and then
there's some preset things in there like harmonics and that changes the sound a bit
now let's look at the play style tab and then in here
you can change it from slap pick finger style whatever way you want
so you can hear there's a difference with how it's being played you can also add some muting to it
that's pretty cool right there you can change the stroke so it's alternating up down always down
stroke or always up stroke let it ring out so if you have this on when i press the key and i let go
you can hear it rings out now if i turn that off
you can see when i let go of the key it no longer rings out could have open strings available
and the detach noise when your fingers lifting and slide noise that sort of thing you can adjust in
here as well now let's look at the string settings and with the free version you can only have a
fretted base you can change how many strings you have though so you have four five or six
and you can also have drop tuning on you can change the action of the guitar
so it could be high action low or standard and what type of string you want do you want it to
be round wound or flat wound and then you have the gauge which can be medium heavy or light and
do you want the strings to be broken in old or new sounding we'll look at the electronics now
and because this is the free version we only have the one pickup set available to us right here you
can adjust the volume of each of these pickups if you want you can make it a passive circuit which
it is now or active then we go over to studio and this is where you can change the amp so by default
it's on our solid state we can change it over to tube right there and this does change the sound
and then you can see we have some pedals down here if we click on one you can see
this is a compressor but we can change that to be whatever we want we can change it to a distortion
you can turn them on and off and you can change whatever ones you have four different spots
available on your pedal board so you can mix them up however you like and then we have patterns here
and with the free version you don't get too many patterns but you have a few maybe you can get
inspired by some of these and you can easily drag and drop them into your timeline of your daw if
you want to use one or maybe you'll just want to use it as a starting point you can change it up
later if you want but you can also access those from down here and then we can press the play
and then over here you have control which allows you to change some of the control
values if you're using like a midi keyboard something like that you can do that in here
now let's just look at some of the presets that are available to you because these can
change up the sound of this bass guitar pretty nice so we'll go to
legacy and we'll just go to the finger picking here we'll try this leland softie
so despite only getting one bass guitar with the free version of Modo Bass 2 you can have
lots of variety of sound from within the plug and of course you can add other effects
outside of the plugin to change things up even more and after quite a few years of
using free bass guitar VST plugins i can say this is the king of free bass guitar plugins
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