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Solo Double Bass · Performed by Nina Bernat

A soloist, not a section reduction.

The double bass is one of the orchestra's most expressive voices and one of the hardest to fake. Eminence is our answer: a solo bass built around a single performance, sampled to behave like a soloist rather than a section of one.

  • 13 ARTICULATIONS
  • 3 MIC POSITIONS
  • 4 DYNAMIC LAYERS ON LEGATO
  • 7 ROUND ROBINS ON SHORTS
  • AI-P PROCESSED LEGATO
  • PERFORMED BY NINA BERNAT
  • LEGATO — VIBRATO / NON-VIBRATO / BOWED
  • SUSTAINED VIBRATO & NON-VIBRATO
  • TREMOLO · HARMONICS · TRILLS
  • STACCATO · STACCATISSIMO · PIZZICATO · COL LEGNO
  • 20,000 SAMPLES
  • KONTAKT 5 FULL OR ABOVE

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Trailer, walkthrough, full-mix and "naked" demos — all recorded with Eminence Double Bass.

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AI legato. Hear the seam disappear.

Every sampled legato has a moment where one note becomes the next — and usually you can hear the join. AI-P, our AI-powered legato engine, is how we make it vanish. Drag the handle to compare the same phrase with it off and on, and watch the ugly phasing and layering of stacked samples melt into a single, clean line. Then play each side and listen to the same moment. One sounds like samples. The other sounds like a player.

Spectrogram — AI-P OffAI-P Off
Spectrogram — AI-P OnAI-P On

Drag left for AI-P on · right for raw · or tap a button to switch and play.

Now listen to the beautiful legato in all its glory.

Feature Deep Dive

AI-P Legato

Conventional sampled legato crossfades three separate recordings at every note change — the sustain of the from-note, a transition sample, and the sustain of the to-note — and hopes the ear forgives where they overlap. AI-P eliminates an entire layer of that stack. By rebuilding the join at the waveform level, we remove the transition-to-sustain crossfade entirely, cutting the number of competing phases in half and producing a legato that is twice as clean as anything conventionally sampled. For a composer that means exposed solo lines that hold up under close listening, without reverb to hide the seams. It is the single feature that separates Eminence from every other sampled solo bass.

Performer

Nina Bernat

Nina Bernat is the soloist on Eminence — a recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant and first-prize winner at the Concert Artists Guild Elmaleh Competition. She has appeared as soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra, served as guest principal with the Israel Philharmonic and Oslo Philharmonic, and is a member of the Bowers Program at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Her prizes include the International Society of Bassists Solo Competition, the Juilliard Double Bass Competition, and the Barbash J.S. Bach String Competition. She performs on a double bass attributed to Guadagnini, passed down from her father, Mark Bernat.

Story

One player, captured deeply.

Eminence is the second title in our solo string series, following Prestige Solo Violin. The brief was simple: capture one player, deeply, and let the AI-P pipeline handle the seams between notes. Every articulation is Nina’s — her bow weight, her vibrato, her phrasing. What reaches your DAW is one bassist playing, not a grid of disconnected samples stitched together at runtime.

What's Inside

Solo Double Bass · Nina Bernat

  • A single soloist, deeply sampled
  • 3 mic positions: Close, Room, Hall
  • AI-P processed legato pipeline
  • Runs in Kontakt 5 full version or above
  • 20,000 samples

Legato

  • Legato — Vibrato (4 dynamic layers)
  • Legato — Non-Vibrato (4 dynamic layers)
  • Legato — Bowed (4 dynamic layers)
  • AI-P waveform-level transition processing

Longs & Sustains

  • Sustained Vibrato (4 dynamic layers)
  • Sustained Non-Vibrato (4 dynamic layers)
  • Tremolo (2 dynamic layers)
  • Natural Harmonics (1 dynamic layer)
  • Semitone Trills (1 dynamic layer)
  • Whole Tone Trills (1 dynamic layer)

Shorts

  • Staccato (7 round robins)
  • Staccatissimo (7 round robins)
  • Pizzicato (7 round robins)
  • Col Legno (7 round robins)

Your exposed bass lines deserve a soloist.

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  • AI-P processed legato — the seam disappears
  • 13 articulations · 3 mic positions
  • 4 dynamic layers on legato · 7 round robins on shorts
  • Performed by Nina Bernat on a Guadagnini bass
  • 20,000 samples · Kontakt 5 full or above

Technical specifications

Format & Compatibility
Kontakt instrument — requires Kontakt 5 full version or above.
Kontakt Player is not supported.
AI-P Processing
Auddict’s waveform-level AI-P pipeline is applied to the legato transitions. It reshapes the audio on either side of each note join so the transition reads as a single continuous bow stroke rather than two notes meeting in the middle — eliminating the audible seam of conventional sampled legato.
Legato
Three legato modes, each with 4 dynamic layers:
Vibrato (4 dyn) · Non-Vibrato (4 dyn) · Bowed (4 dyn)
Longs & Sustains
Sustained Vibrato (4 dyn)
Sustained Non-Vibrato (4 dyn)
Tremolo (2 dyn)
Natural Harmonics (1 dyn)
Semitone Trills (1 dyn)
Whole Tone Trills (1 dyn)
Shorts
Each short articulation features 7 round robins:
Staccato (7 RR) · Staccatissimo (7 RR) · Pizzicato (7 RR) · Col Legno (7 RR)
Mic Positions
Three mixable mic positions: Close, Room, and Hall. Blend freely to place the bass from intimate close detail to full concert-hall ambience.
Performer
Performed by Nina Bernat — Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient and prize-winning double bass soloist — on a double bass attributed to Guadagnini.
Sample Count
20,000 samples.
Requirements & notes
This instrument requires the full retail version of Kontakt 5 or above (not compatible with Kontakt Player). The full version can be purchased from Native Instruments’ website. All prices shown are excluding VAT and/or other applicable sales taxes. These will be added during the checkout process.