When you need to support an entire rhythm section with a strong tonal foundation and throw in a few licks for good measure , this collection conjures up the heaviest bass sounds in all of rock. Keyswitches allow you to jump between muted plucks, slides, and smoothly connected open notes, making this a fully featured collection capable of standing up to a live performance.
Round and punchy, this classic unmodified 5 string Fender Jazz bass makes itself heard without stealing much room in the mix. A great choice when you need something a bit tamer that still knows how to show its colors.
Ideal when you need a bit of dirt without such a hard-hitting punch. With a sharp falloff on each attack, this bass is all about hefty punch with little sustain, making it the best fit staccato, accented passages.
Fantastically well-made, this Spector Bass is an easy choice when you want a long sustain with a lot of character, and perfect for a bass drone when you need to stay out of the way of the drums. A versatile collection of meaty toms, thumping kicks, crisp snares and cymbals that have a healthy dose of sizzle. Beyond traditional rock songs, this collection is also perfectly suited to hybrid orchestral music, making it a no-brainer choice for media composers.
Intimate and dry, the Ayotte kit is a reliable choice for acoustic or folk rock. The attacks are strong, the body is tight, and the releases get out of the way before the next strike comes in. Roomy with a crisp attack, this Ludwig kit is a great balance of power and ambience, and will fit in easily with a larger ensemble.
A wild fat kit with a little more room. There are countless ways to use this collection, but one of the best ways is to layer muted notes and chords with a heavily compressed drum kit, allowing it to punch through and create a massive wall of sound almost impossible to distinguish from a live performance.
You can easily use keyswitches to alternate between muted chunking and open power chords, or switch over to lead guitars and solo through a combo of pinch harmonics, slides and dramatic vibratos. The ultimate death metal guitar, the 7 string Ibanez is as dirty and crunchy as you could ask for and is perfect for ultra-coarse attacks and commanding sustains.
The king of overdriven glory. This Les Paul Deluxe loves to be punished, and is always a reliable choice for hanging on open chords. This guitar has a bandpassed tone ideal for classic rock and is a great way to create contrast and tension during intros and interludes.
With only a bass, drum kit and a couple guitars you can create a towering rock band that rivals the character and wow factor of live session players, with virtually no time spent tweaking UI and MIDI controls. Some MOR2 instruments are programmed to play monophonically, enabling you to use the sustain pedal to produce smooth, connected performances without any danger of ugly note overlaps.
If you want to play a chord on one of these instruments, you'll have to increase the number of voices on its 'Advanced Properties' page. Mr Bergman played three leading makes of kit, which the producers sampled using the usual tricks of the trade: repetition samples, multiple dynamics and round robins. Given this drummer's track record and EastWest's studio facilities, extensive microphone collection and sampling pedigree, what could go wrong? Well, nothing. From what I've heard of the competition, these kits do indeed measure up to the industry's leading virtual drum products, and they certainly match anything in my overflowing sample library for quality, depth and power.
These kits sound very healthy: the kicks have sufficient high end 'tap' to cut through the dense guitar fog of contemporary metal, the snares are bright and beefy and the toms sound thunderous.
My favourite cymbals are the Zildjian set, which combines a light, airy ride, two hefty crashes and an extremely raucous China cymbal. A new drum mixer with three dedicated faders allows you to blend the dry, room and compressed room signals. The two room options can't be heard simultaneously; when you select one, the other is automatically deactivated.
It's good to see the proliferation of value settings for control knobs in MOR2's GUI, even if some are a little eccentric: for example, a pan pot whose first five movements to the right are displayed as 1. The last value can only refer to the Number of the Beast, obviously included here to placate black metal fanatics. Quirky though such values may appear, their inclusion makes it possible to exactly replicate settings from instrument to instrument, an important facility for programmers and control freaks like myself.
Like the original MOR, Ministry Of Rock 2 contains no riffs, phrases or licks, but simply gives you the means to create your own. The makers' blueprint for the library was "to create a virtual software instrument capable of producing sounds that could actually produce a hit record or film score without any live drum, bass or guitar overdubs. A hit record is a tougher call, as I suspect most rock listeners would prefer to hear real-life guitars, especially when it comes to the guitar solo!
However, there's no doubt you could use these samples to make a storming demo of what might end up being a smash hit, and certainly many of its sounds are strong, characterful, vibrant and dynamic enough to grace a master tape.
Thankfully, the era when sampled guitars and basses were weedy, unplayable travesties of the real thing is now long gone. Like its predecessor, MOR2 mixes enormously powerful sounds with more tender timbres, while maintaining a high standard throughout.
There are no 'fillers', and every instrument sounds like it has a right to be in there. Samples feature round robin, hammer on and pull off legato, sliding legato and dozens of other techniques.
Dual channel recordings let you pick a wicked real amp sound or use the direct signal with popular plug-ins. Ministry Of Rock 2 also includes all of the remastered content from Hardcore Bass and Hardcore Bass XP plus an all-new 5 string Musicman Stingray bass with samples and true legato.
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