CoreBass Pear

User’s Guide

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 Table of Contents

Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 3
Interface .......................................................................................................................................... 4
Release Delay .............................................................................................................................. 4
Pitch Bend ................................................................................................................................... 4
Slide Mode................................................................................................................................... 4
Legato Range ............................................................................................................................... 4
Hand Position .............................................................................................................................. 5
Tuning .......................................................................................................................................... 5
Slide Speed .................................................................................................................................. 5
Pre-roll Amount ........................................................................................................................... 5
Releases ....................................................................................................................................... 6
Fret Slides .................................................................................................................................... 6
Legato Noises .............................................................................................................................. 6
Pre-roll ......................................................................................................................................... 6
Additional Notes ............................................................................................................................. 7
String Selection Override ............................................................................................................ 7
Repeat Note Keyswitch ............................................................................................................... 7
Dynamic Key Colors ..................................................................................................................... 7
Contact ............................................................................................................................................ 8

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 Introduction
Thank you for purchasing the CoreBass Pear sample library! CoreBass Pear features 300 MB
(compressed afterwards to half that size using KONTAKT 4’s lossless NCW compression) of 24-
bit acoustic upright bass samples, powered by KONTAKT’s extensive scripting engine.

This upright bass provides you with versatility in both tone and articulations. The library has a
wide range of controls, allowing you to easily adjust the tone and playability of the upright bass.

Have fun playing this library!

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 Interface

Release Delay
Delays the release of notes, alllowing you to perform smooth lines by filling in the gaps between
notes. Release delay acts mon nophonically, meaning that notes interrupt th he release delay of
previous notes.

Pitch Bend
Switches between several cho oices of which notes the pitch wheel affects. On the “Normal”
setting, the pitch bend will afffect all sustained notes. The “Highest” and “LLowest” settings allow
you to bend only the highest or o lowest notes respectively. Finally, “First” allows
a you to bend
only the first note in the phrase, and “Latest” allows you to bend the very latest note only.

Slide Mode
This selects the MIDI CC numb ber that will enable/disable the slide mode foor legato. When the
slides are enabled, legato willl be played as a smooth slide (the velocity of the note determines
the speed of the slide) rather than a hammer-on or pull-off legato articulaation.

Legato Range
Adjusts the interval in which overlapping
o notes will always be interpreted as legato.

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Hand Position
Sets the default position for th
he bassist’s hand on the fingerboard. This afffects which strings get
selected when automatically determining
d which strings should be used. Fo
or example, higher
positions will incorporate notees on lower strings.

Tuning
Switches between several com mmon tuning presets. These not only affect the
t tone of each
string, but the playable range as well.

Slide Speed
This control adjusts the generral speed of slides.

Pre-roll Amount
Adjusts the amount of pre-rolll samples to use. Higher amounts will createe more delay in the
notes, but increase the realism
m.

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Releases
Adjusts the volume of the rele
ease samples.

Fret Slides
Changes the volume of the no oise of fingers sliding across strings. This affeccts fret slide noises
occurring during slides as welll as hand position changes and pitch bends.

Legato Noises
This controls the volume of th
he sound the fingers on the fingerboard makee when playing
hammer-on and pull-off legatto articulations.

Pre-roll
Adjusts the overall volume of the pre-roll samples.

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 Additional Notes

String Selection Override
In order to override CoreBass Pear’s automatic string selection system, you can use the bottom
four MIDI notes to manually select which strings the notes are to be played on. For example,
MIDI notes C-2, C#-2, D-2, and D#-2 correspond to the low E string, A string, D string, and G
string respectively. Hold one of these manual string selection keyswitches during playing in
order to force CoreBass Pear to play the notes on the selected string. When you release the
keyswitches, CoreBass Pear will return to its automatic string selection.

You can also hold several string selection override keyswitch at a time, in order to limit the
string selection to only those selected strings.

Repeat Note Keyswitch

The repeat note keyswitch, mapped to the B0 MIDI note, repeats the last played note. This
makes it easy to play repeating notes, by alternating between the note and the repeat note
keyswitch.

Dynamic Key Colors

CoreBass Pear features our proprietary dynamic key color technology to allow you to intuitively
see which notes are being played with which strings. Here is a list of the colors and their
corresponding strings:

Blue - E string

Red - A string

Yellow - D string

Cyan - G string

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 Contact
We’d love to hear from you! If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for the
improvement of our products, please do not hesitate to contact us.

[email protected]

http://www.orangetreesamples.com

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