iFretless Bass

I really dig this bass library. I was in search something similar to my COPIOUS bass VSTs in a convenient app and this had the best reviews. Although not NEARLY as deeply sampled or scripted as a bass library for Kontakt or Ample Sound, these samples are great and retain most of the authentic bass aura that you don’t get with many keyboard bass patches. I won’t gripe about adding scripting to simulate the ranges and register of a real bass, as I know that this requires lots of time and investment & is a bit much to expect from a $15 app. But, I will suggest an update adding adjustable layers for all of the resonant, release, & fret noise idiosyncrasies of a bass to make the sound less sterile, adding ‘string tap’ & atonal mute samples assignable to a single key, MIDI CC, & velocity layer as an option for rhythmic players, optionally integrating the “hard finger” samples with their buzzing into the regular bass libraries to generate even more tonal variation on each string (round robin would be nice, but I understand limitations), include a few assignable effects (up and down slides, slap fox, etc.) that can also be triggered from the touchscreen & assigned to aftertouch for those of use without a feature rich midi controller, and, lastly, add ‘slap’ & mute as tab options for all electric basses; offering the ability to include them as a top or bottom velocity layers. I’d gladly shell out more cash to purchase these updates, as I really have no other alternatives other than bringing my MUSE Receptor with Kontakt out of retirement or settling for my Tyros 5’s bland bass patches. Thanks for this great app!

I am handicapped and this allows me to be a bassist again. Except for the Upright Bass, the sounds are very good—certainly enough for gigging which I do. The upright bass is horrible and useless. Oh well, you can’t have everything. I found a bug that will not bother must users. When you quit iFretless Bass, it doesn’t quit completely. If you only tap the screen, you won’t notice it but, if your keyboard is connected to your iOS device, any other sound library will be odd because your keyboard will still trigger iFretless Bass (your keys just have to be hooked up. It still happens if you tapped the glass on the bass). Drove me nuts till I figured it out. The workaround is easy enough—shut down your iOS device and restart. Time consuming and annoying at a gig. I didn’t notice this bug with the iFretless brass and wind libraries. Except for that and the upright bass, sounds great and works fine.

This app is great to play and sounds awesome. It’s the ONLY realistic bass guitar sim in the App Store as far as I know. There are others but they are ALL crap IMHO. There is one addition that would make this app even more killer. A sustain button somewhere in the corner that you would touch and the note you hit would continue until the next one is hit. This would allow a nice even single note rhythm without the nanosecond of silence every time you lift your thumb to hit the same note over and over. Please, this would be RAD!!! Otherwise it’s worth every penny. Thank you my friend for such an easy to play and realistic sounding bass sim!