Soulful Bass
Meticulously sampled from real electric bass performances by professionals, Bloom Bass Groove unites the rich tones of slap bass, fingerstyle bass, and picked basses alongside an array of articulations and performance one-shots. Run these tones through custom-built amp simulations, filters, and dynamic shaping and you have the perfect bass sound to root your track to.
Bloom Bass Groove captures the soul of the bass guitar, whether it's the slap of Chic-fuelled funk, the catchy basslines of Dua Lipa, or the smooth sounds of golden-age hip-hop.
Want to audition multiple bassists to find the perfect part? Utilising Bloom’s intuitive Phrase Player, Bloom Bass Groove allows you to switch between different riffs, playing styles, and articulations, mirroring the dynamics and intricacies of a real-life bass performance.
What Can Bass Groove Do?
Deliver Slap, Picked, Fingerstyle, muted bass guitar loops, and one-shot articulations.
Audition different playing styles in key and in time with your track
Sequence complex basslines effortlessly with the Phrase Player.
Manipulate sounds extensively using three distinct effects and four unique macros for ultimate sound shaping.
Infuse instant groove into your tracks with 250 presets crafted by professional sound designers.
Excite Audio built Bloom Bass Groove with a focus on capturing the nuances of live bass performances with a combination of slaps, muted one-shots, and dynamic playing styles, delivering the expressive quality achievable only through real bass performances.
They recorded professional bass players using a variety of world-renowned bass guitars. Their performances were captured using diverse recording techniques, from DI signals routed directly into the mixing desk to advanced studio amping methods. Excite Audio’s team of sound designers took these recordings, combined them in the phrase player, and processed them using Bass Groove’s built-in effects and macros.
This resulted in over 250 presets across 7 categories:
Clean (CLN) - Clean, smooth basslines with no distortion or heavy processing
Experimental (EXP) - Abstract & unique sound design-focused presets
High Energy (HI) - Upbeat, fast and busy basslines
Low Energy (LO) - Delicate, slow and spacious basslines
Melodic (MLD) - Bass notes that can be played melodically with the white keys
Processed (PRO) - Basses that use heavy processing & effects
Rhythmic (RHY) - Basses focused on rhythmic & percussive slap bass
How it Works
Start in your desired tempo, choose a sample bank or preset, and trigger one of 14 bpm-synced samples spread across two octaves. White notes set off bass samples and loops, while black notes alter properties like playback speed and pitch and trigger sequences and effect modulation.
Four powerful macros control a specialised chain of effects, fine-tuned to the diverse samples that form Bloom Bass Groove.
The Main Page
There are eight banks of sounds to choose from - organised into easy to find categories, and the sounds in each bank can be dragged onto any of the 14 white notes.
Audition and Load Samples & Banks
The Edit Page: Shape Your Sound
The Edit page is the central hub for refining and making the library of samples your own. Adjust start and end points, manipulate playback speed and direction, and tweak the timbre with pitch and formant controls.
The Phrase Player lets you sequence bass samples with precision. Assign one of the five black keys to trigger a pattern of samples, modulate pitch, velocity, hi-cut/lo-cut filters and dive deep into the three effects: Speaker, Filter and Dynamics. Familiar arpeggiator features like Rate, Latching, and Swing provide a familiar but powerful foundation for your workflow.
Bloom Bass Groove combines three bespoke effects modules: Speaker simulates different reamping techniques and loud speakers, from handheld devices to guitar amps to studio monitors, Dynamics for transient shaping, gating unwanted noise and applying compressions and an Envelope Filter for audio-responsive frequency sculpting.
Features
14 Sample Keys
5 Factory Modifiers: Half-time, Double-Time, Reverse, Octave Down, Octave Up
5 Custom Modifiers
8 Sample Banks / 112 Bass Samples
Samples Synced to Host BPM
Key Selection
Sample Randomise
4 Macros: Tube, Digital, Sub-EQ, Realism
5 Main FX Parameters: Filter, Speaker, Dynamics, Lo-Cut, Hi-Cut
Global Bypass
250 Presets
Edit Page - Sample Edit
Waveform Display
Playback Direction: Forwards, Backwards, Pendulum, Loop
Playback Modes: Hold, Latch, Relative
Playback Speed: Normal, Double, Half
4 Choke Groups
Start / End Markers with Snap to Grid, Snap to Transient
Sample Crossfade, Attack, Release, Pan, Volume
Sample Pitch, Fine, Formant, Pitch Warp
Edit Page - Phrase Edit
Sample Mode for triggering sequences
FX Modulation: Filter, Speaker, Dynamics, Lo-Cut, Hi-Cut, Pitch, Velocity
Playback Direction: Forwards, Backwards, Pendulum, Loop
Sample / Modulation Randomise
Phrase Rate, Sync, Swing, Steps, Latch, Beat Retrigger controls
Edit Page - FX
3 Rearrangable Effects: Filter, Speaker, Dynamics
Filter Mode: Lo-Cut, Hi-Cut, Peak
Filter Parameters: Frequency, Slope/Peak Gain, Resonance, Env Amount, Env Threshold, Env Attack, Env Release, Mix, Input, Output
Speaker Mode: Device, Cabinet, Hi-Fi, No Speaker
Speaker Parameters: Size, Mix, Distance, Age, Bass Thru, Tone, Input, Output
Dynamics Parameters: Attack, Sustain, Mix, Gate, Comp, Attack, Release, Input, Output
Global Lo-Cut, Hi-Cut, Tone, Dry, Wet
System Requirements
macOS
macOS 10.15 or higher (Intel / Native Apple Silicon supported)
Plugin Formats: VST, VST3, AU, AAX, Standalone
DAW's Supported: Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, Reason + more.
Compatibility: 64-bit compatible only
Windows
Windows 7 or higher
Plugin formats: VST, VST3, AAX, Standalone
DAWs supported: Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, Reason + more.
Compatibility: 64-bit compatible only