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Bass Slapper Black Friday pricing from Waves is 62% off, which brings this slap bass virtual instrument to $29.99 until Nov 26, 2026.
The maker built it around one sound: thumbed, popped and muted bass in the style of the 70s players who drove funk, disco and pop. Waves names Larry Graham and Bootsy Collins as the reference.
It runs as a plugin in your DAW or as a standalone instrument.
The library holds 3,700 multisamples, with round-robin note assignments and articulations. Round-robin means repeated notes cycle through different recordings, so a fast line doesn't machine-gun the same hit.
The samples were recorded with natural sustain and no looped samples.
You pick the tone character too: a warm, old-school sound or a bright, modern one.
The same note sounds different at different spots on the neck, so Bass Slapper lets you choose where notes play. It has 11 interactive playing positions with automatic string switching.
Articulation covers the full 5-string range, including thumbing, popping and mutes.
Dynamics are set by choosing how many velocity layers the instrument uses.
There are 5 legato modes, including "always" and "off".
The signal chain is inside the instrument, so you can shape the tone without loading extra inserts.
If you work with Native Instruments hardware, the plugin is NKS-ready for Maschine and Komplete Kontrol.
On Mac, Bass Slapper supports macOS Monterey 12, Ventura 13, Sonoma 14 and Sequoia 15, in VST, AU and AAX formats.
On PC, it needs Windows 10 or later, in VST and AAX formats.
Yes, the Waves Bass Slapper Black Friday deal takes 62% off, which puts this slap bass instrument at $29.99. The deal ends Nov 26, 2026.
Bass Slapper has 3,700 multisamples with round-robin assignments and articulations, 11 playing positions, 4 amp sim and cabinet options, pre-amp effects (compressor, phaser, overdrive, triggered wah, chorus) and post-amp delay and reverb.
On Mac it comes as VST, AU and AAX, supporting macOS Monterey 12 through Sequoia 15. On Windows 10 or later it comes as VST and AAX. It also runs as a standalone instrument, and it is NKS-ready.
It covers full 5-string articulation, including thumbing, popping and mutes. You can choose the neck position where notes play across 11 positions with automatic string switching, and pick from 5 legato modes.
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