Humanworkshop has released Foley Bass, a free NI Kontakt instrument based on foley samples provided by Nolan Petruska (aka Frequent).
A student asked me about using foley in Kontakt to create heavy bass sounds. So that’s exactly what we did. With the foley sounds in the pack from Nolan we created a set of patches and I later added a background and selected some parameters for the UI.
Foley Bass is available for free download via Humanworkshop (19.6 MB download size, ZIP archive, contains 4 presets in NKI format for NI Kontakt).
The instrument is based on foley samples provided by Nolan Petruska. The original foley sounds can be downloaded here (62 MB download size, ZIP archive). Durk Kooistra of Humanworkshop has used these samples to create a gritty bass instrument in Native Instruments Kontakt. He has designed a custom interface using KSP scripting and created the factory presets for the instrument.
Foley Bass relies on built-in Kontakt effects and detuning to synthesize a modern gritty bass sound. The included presets would work really well in more aggressive dubstep and DnB tunes. Please note that the full version of NI Kontakt is required in order to use the provided patches without limitations! They will work for 15 minutes in Kontakt Player.
If you’re into sound design, definitely check out the Tutorials section on the Humanworkshop website. You’ll find a nice collection of video tutorials and guides for sound design in popular virtual synthesizers.
Audio Demo
Check out the Foley Bass audio demo:
https://soundcloud.com/polymass/sets/foley-bass-kontakt-synth
Links
Download Foley Bass: click here
Last Updated on December 5, 2013 by Tomislav Zlatic.
