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Bass Machina Black Friday pricing is 50% off, $49.50, until Dec 6, 2026, on Soundiron's sampled 5-string Kiesel bass for the free Kontakt Player.
The library comes from Craig Peters' custom Kiesel. It has a swamp ash body with an antique ash treatment and a 3-piece walnut and bloodwood neck, strung with D'Addario Pro Steel.45-.130 strings.
It runs in Kontakt Player 8.1 or newer and also works with Komplete Kontrol, S-Series keyboards and NKS hardware and software from Native Instruments.
The maker lists the contents like this:
It loads through the Kontakt Libraries browser and Native Access.
Hammer-ons and pull-offs are fully controllable, so lines can move the way a real bassist's would. Soundiron says the slides are programmable at different tempos.
The interface switches articulations in real time. It also has advanced mapping options, a sequencer and an auto-strummer.
The Main presets hold every sample in the library plus the performance features. The Lite presets use fewer round-robins, which helps when RAM is tight.
Simple versions drop the added choice and give every string a fixed crossover setting as the notes climb.
The DI presets give you the pure bass tone, recorded straight in with no preamp or other coloring hardware. You can reamp it with the built-in effects or push it through your own amp sims and plugins.
The built-in FX rack has 27 DSP effect modules. You can load them into any of 8 slots, in any order.
The modules include phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, bass and guitar amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ and rotator.
The Reverb module carries 99 convolution impulse responses: rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces. There are also 40 custom FX impulses for heavier sound-shaping. A bank of factory FX chain presets gives you somewhere to start.
Yes. The Bass Machina Black Friday deal takes 50% off Soundiron's 5-string Kiesel bass library, bringing it to $49.50. The deal runs until Dec 6, 2026. It is a Kontakt library that runs in the free Kontakt Player.
Bass Machina has 5,192 stereo samples in locked.ncw format, 6.32 GB installed, in 2 NKI banks. Articulations are pick sustains, taps, slaps, pops and mutes, plus slides. The 27-module FX rack and raw D.I. recordings are built in.
Yes. The maker says Bass Machina is made for the free Kontakt Player, version 8.1 or newer. It also works with Komplete Kontrol, all S-Series keyboards and NKS software and hardware from Native Instruments.
Yes. The DI presets hold the raw bass tone, recorded with no preamp or coloring hardware, ready to run through your favorite amp sims and plugins. You can also reamp it with the built-in amp and cab simulators.
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