Darwin's Cat

RedGrooveBass releases: the version history of the bass amp sim

This page lists the versions only: what each one added, fixed and changed, newest first. What the bass amp sim itself does is on the RedGrooveBass page.

RedGrooveBass is released together with OrbitBass, in the shared Darwin’s Cat Bass release: one package holds both.

  1. v0.2.0

    The SGT-DI at new levels, COMP at three quarters, the cabinet's number in its title

    • The SGT-DI capture is fed 16 dB softer, at −20 dB, and leaves 3 dB under its capture; the captures themselves are the same, and a session or a preset plays at the new levels.
    • COMP now holds three quarters of the bass instead of all of it.
    • CABINET's title carries the slot's number, CABINET 4, and the line under it the name alone, 4x10 SHEEN.
    • Two of the dozen have new mics: 7: 1x15 THUMP's second mic is a D112 close to the speaker, where an RE20 stood 20 cm out, so B15, which opens on THUMP, sounds different; and 9: 1x12 SQUAT has an RE20 at the cap instead of an SM57 off it.
    macOSdarwinscat-bass-0.2.0-macos.pkg35 MB
    Windowsdarwinscat-bass-0.2.0-windows-arm64.zip25 MB
    darwinscat-bass-0.2.0-windows-x64-setup.exe14 MB
    darwinscat-bass-0.2.0-windows-x64.zip25 MB
    Linuxdarwinscat-bass-0.2.0-linux-arm64.tar.xz19 MB
    darwinscat-bass-0.2.0-linux-x86_64.tar.xz23 MB
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  2. v0.1.1

    A cabinet switch, and a slider without a tail

    • CABINET has a switch of its own in its title bar: the cabinet can be taken out of the sound, leaving the clean DI, and put back. While the cabinet is off, OFF stands in place of its name, the slider dims, and CAB / DI stays where it is: there is nothing to mix.
    • The cabinet slider runs exactly along its own slot: before, the slot ran further, into the place of a gear that was taken away. Now it spans the whole cabinet screen, with the name centred above it.
    macOSdarwinscat-bass-0.1.1-macos.pkg35 MB
    Windowsdarwinscat-bass-0.1.1-windows-arm64.zip25 MB
    darwinscat-bass-0.1.1-windows-x64-setup.exe14 MB
    darwinscat-bass-0.1.1-windows-x64.zip25 MB
    Linuxdarwinscat-bass-0.1.1-linux-arm64.tar.xz19 MB
    darwinscat-bass-0.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.xz23 MB
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  3. v0.1.0

    First steps: the cabin of a walking machine

    • RedGrooveBass comes out in Darwin's Cat Bass, a package of the bass amps of its own, together with OrbitBass. The guitar amps are not in it: they install from their own package. There is an installer for macOS, an installer or a zip for Windows x64, a zip for Windows ARM64, and an archive with an install script for Linux. The installers and the script let you pick the amps and the formats to install. One plugin holds every bass amp in each format: Darwin's Cat Bass as VST3, CLAP and, on a Mac, AU. Each amp is also an app of its own that needs no host.
    • Inside is a capture of a real Ampeg SGT-DI bass preamp, both of its voices: B15 and SVT. In RedGrooveBass they are two gears. Each has its own cabinet and its own BLEND, MIDDLE frequency, compressor threshold, OCTAVE, ENVELOPE and CHORUS. The STR 4 / 5 (four or five strings) and STYL F / S (fingers or slap) switches are shared by both gears.
    • The cabinets come from Cab IR Generator: a cabinet's sound is calculated when it is chosen, so no cabinet files need to be installed. There are twelve factory ones, the most different from each other among its punk, rock, metal and modern presets, each with a number and a name, such as "7: 1x15 THUMP".
    • The shared data is installed once, into the same Factory folder as the guitar amps' data. Each package adds its own files there and, when it is removed, takes away only its own.
    macOSdarwinscat-bass-0.1.0-macos.pkg35 MB
    Windowsdarwinscat-bass-0.1.0-windows-arm64.zip25 MB
    darwinscat-bass-0.1.0-windows-x64-setup.exe14 MB
    darwinscat-bass-0.1.0-windows-x64.zip25 MB
    Linuxdarwinscat-bass-0.1.0-linux-arm64.tar.xz19 MB
    darwinscat-bass-0.1.0-linux-x86_64.tar.xz23 MB
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