With its comprehensive design, Trilian
brings many different types of Bass together into one extraordinary-sounding
virtual instrument.
Trilian is designed from the ground up to be the most versatile bass virtual
instrument available today with a new level of expressive, real-time
performance for acoustic and electric basses – plus cutting-edge synth bass
tones with powerful editing and extraordinary sound quality. Trilian is the
successor to Spectrasonics’ award-winning Trilogy bass
instrument, offering deeper control of musical expression and much greater
flexibility of sound shaping. Trilian’s 34GB library is 10-times the size of
Trilogy and features all new acoustic, electric and synth basses.
Powered by next generation STEAM Engine
technology, Trilian is the first instrument to feature core library
integration with Spectrasonics flagship Omnisphere® synth
– allowing Trilian’s sounds to be used within the Omnisphere environment for
further sound design and keyboard/bass splits.
At Spectrasonics, we’ve always loved
Bass sounds.” notes Eric
Persing, Founder and Creative Director. “When we started 15 years ago,
our very first product was the best-selling Bass
Legends sample library. Then
in 2002, we introduced Trilogy – the world’s first Bass Virtual Instrument.
Now we are very pleased to release Trilian, which represents a whole new
generation of our Bass development. Trilian is built on the STEAM Engine
that powers Omnisphere, which has allowed us to create the most expressive
and flexible Bass module we’ve ever made.”
PERFORMANCE
The new acoustic and electric basses in Trilian are sampled at an extremely
high level of detail. The combination of the software’s intuitive, automatic
selection of legato and release articulations as the user plays - and the
extensive ‘Round-Robin’ variations introduced for natural sounding bass
lines with repeated notes - create a more dynamic and subtle playing
experience. Newly developed multisampled dynamic slides let notes
realistically slide from one to another. Each of the new basses feature
multi-channel mixing between phase-locked microphone/amplifier and direct
outputs of each bass.
BASS INSTRUMENTS
Over sixty different 4, 5, 6 and 8 string Electric basses are presented in
fingered, picked, fretless, slapped, tapped, and muted technique variations
– providing a huge variety of sounds for any musical genre. Highlights of
the new Electric Basses include a Music Man™ 5-string Studio Bass, Chapman
Stick®, Lakland™ Rock P-Bass, Clean Fender® Jazz Bass, a Hardcore Rock Bass,
a Retro 1960’s Epiphone® Viola Bass and much more.
Trilian’s stunning new Acoustic Bass is the most detailed instrument
Spectrasonics has ever released, with 4 audio channels and over 21,000
samples to create this single instrument! All this combined with Trilian’s
high-resolution streaming of the sounds puts a depth of realism into
performances that is truly inspiring.
SOUND CREATION
For Synth sounds, Trilian features newly-developed 4-Pole “Juicy” and
“Power” Filter algorithms with oscillating resonance that are ideal for
electronic bass. Hundreds of synth soundsources were created using over 30
of the most exotic and coveted hardware synthesizers – from the original
Moog® Taurus Pedals to the latest boutique analog modular synthesizers. A
multitude of extremely powerful editing controls are available for sound
design – including the “FlexMod” modulation system, Dual Filters with more
than 19 filter types, 6 multistage looping envelopes, 6 full-featured LFOs,
dual morphing modulation, modulatable FX racks and much more.
Trilian’s FX racks include all of the renowned FX processors from Omnisphere
and Stylus
RMX – including a wide
variety of amp and speaker models, distortions, dynamics processors,
equalizers, chorus, phasers, flangers, delays, reverbs, unique specialty FX
and more.
LEGACY
As Spectrasonics' next-generation bass instrument, Trilian includes
enhanced, remastered versions of Trilogy’s core library – taking it to a new
level of sound and expression. As a special bonus, Spectrasonics’ original
“Bass Legends” multisamples have also been remastered and included in the
Trilian library, featuring Abraham
Laboriel, John
Patitucci& Marcus
Miller (bass sounds which
some hardware synth users may remember from popular Roland Xpansion boards
and the classic MBD-1 rack bass module).
INTEGRATION
Trilian is the first virtual instrument to feature core library integration
with Spectrasonics award-winning, flagship Omnisphere synthesizer. Trilian’s
complete sound library can be opened within Omnisphere for further synthesis
and expanded performance possibilities.
Trilian’s Arpeggiator features the “Groove Lock” technology Spectrasonics
pioneered in Omnisphere and Stylus RMX’s Time Designer – which means that
with a simple drag and drop action, the feel of bass patterns created with
Trilian’s Arpeggiator can be perfectly synchronized between all three of
Spectrasonics instruments.
INTERFACE
The new Custom Controls interface on the Main page of each patch brings out
the most useful and interesting sound modification controls for that
specific patch, and a single control can even modify numerous parameters to
create unique FX. The Custom Controls are all MIDI Learnable, Automatable
and users can create their own configurations of Custom Controls.