OrbitBass: every Felitronics bass amp sim in one plugin

OrbitBass is the integrator of the Felitronics bass plugins: all our bass amps gathered in one plugin. OrbitBass does without a cockpit and a landscape: it is a studio panel with the whole bass chain at hand.

You pick the device in the menu on its name in the AMP block. Right now it holds the Ampeg SGT-DI with both of its voices, B15 and SVT. The cabinets come from Orbit Bass Cab Builder: twelve factory ones on a slider, the rest of its presets by style in the BUILDER menu, and you can simply drop your own IR onto CAB.

The chain is GATE → COMP → OCTAVE → ENVELOPE → AMP → CHORUS → CAB IR → LIMIT. DELAY and REVERB are not in it out of the box, but they can be added. The COMP knob mixes the compressed bass in with the clean one, while the threshold, ratio, character (Smooth, Punchy, Opto, FET, Squash), attack and release are set separately. BLEND keeps the lows clean below its frequency (80 to 250 Hz) and sends only the top into the preamp. CAB / DI mixes the cabinet with the DI. The low cut follows the number of strings, 4 or 5, and the high cut the playing style, fingers or slap. The tuner hears notes down to A0, the low A of drop-A tuning.

OrbitBass ships in the Darwin’s Cat Bass release alongside RedGrooveBass: in each format (VST3, AU, CLAP) it is one plugin, free and open source (AGPL).