6EN BASS release notes

What's new in 6EN BASS, newest version first. 6EN BASS user guide · 6EN BASS product page

v1.0.0 — 2026-11-12

  • 808 and bass line generator: writes a line in your key and scale and sends it as MIDI to your own bass instrument
  • Nine style engines in four families: Trap 808, Drill, Boom Bap, R&B, House, UK Garage, and SOUL & FUNK — Neo-Soul Rap, Half-Step Funk and Fusion Funk (busy, melodic lines with runs up the neck)
  • Lines phrase like a player: a 2-bar riff that repeats, with something new at the end of each phrase; chromatic approach notes, 16th-note runs, ghost notes and half-step side-steps where the style calls for them
  • Glides as part of the line: LEGATO (overlapping notes, for instruments in mono / glide mode) or PITCH BEND (any instrument), with glide TIME, AMOUNT and BEND RANGE
  • KEY and SCALE (Minor, Major, Harmonic Minor, Phrygian, Dorian, Minor and Major Pentatonic), OCTAVE
  • 1, 2, 4 or 8-bar lines; SWING, DENSITY, OCTAVE jumps and VELOCITY
  • 27 factory presets across the four style families
  • FOLLOW KICK: the line plays where your kick plays, from the kick MIDI coming in or a kick you draw; PASTE takes the kick from 6EN DRUMS (COPY KICK)
  • FOLLOW CHORDS: the line follows the chords from 6EN CHORDS — each chord's bass note first, chord tones on the beats, runs into the next chord. Live over 6EN LINK (same LINK letter, HOLD keeps what you have), or with COPY CHORDS / PASTE, or by dropping a MIDI file
  • Piano roll: add, move, resize and delete notes; click the GLIDE lane to slide into a note; lock notes to keep them
  • 16 fills in four groups (Classic, Slides, Runs, Rhythm), 1 beat, 2 beats or 1 bar long
  • GENERATE VARIATION: a new line in the same style, never one of your last few; ◀ ▶ beside SEED step back and forward through your last 64 variations, note edits and fill included
  • Plays in sync with your host; MIDI OUT light, MIDI channel, and ROUTE — routing and glide setup help for your host with a test note
  • EXPORT MIDI: drag the line into your host (glides included), or save it as a .mid file
  • ? button (bottom right) opens the user guide on gdpaudio.com
  • macOS: VST3 and AU — Intel & Apple Silicon
  • Windows: VST3 — Windows 10/11, 64-bit