IK Multimedia Announces MODO Bass

October 21st, 2016 by Trenton

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Pioneering virtual instruments for musicians, IK Multimedia has introduced a uniquely modeled virtual bass for our lowly desires.

Not a professional bassist? IK has your back, fam.

MODO Bass is the first physically modeled electric bass that uses technology to recreate dynamic interaction between player and bass. Claiming to produce the ‘most realistic, lifelike sounding dynamic performance’, IK’s virtual bass focuses just as intently on the performance aspect of their new virtual instrument.

Partnering with one of Europe’s oldest universities, the team spent 8 years integrating modal synthesis technology and an ultra-optimized sound engine to model each string as a nonlinear resonator where the string’s acoustic behavior is determined by its physical parameters as well as by the interaction of the string with fretboard, body and pick-ups of the instrument. The action of the player is then modeled as a nonlinear physical interaction with certain areas on the string surface. Then using IK’s cutting edge analog modeling expertise, the amp and effects rig of the electric bass is added to the sound chain.

MODO Bass from IK Multimedia will be available in November 2016 $299.99 ($199.99 crossgrade), however, the virtual instrument is available for preorder now with a limited price of $149.99 MSRP.

Click here to check out more info on IK’s MODO Bass.