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Trilogy
Total Bass Module


Trilogy is discontinued. Check out Trilian the next generation bass module from Spectrasonics.

About Trilogy
When it was introduced in 2002, Trilogy was the world's first and only virtual instrument dedicated as a total solution for Bass - integrating a large library of Electric, Acoustic and Synth bass sounds with a powerful, yet easy to understand user interface based on the UVI engine. Trilogy garnered many top industry awards and rave reviews and became an industry standard for being The bass virtual instrument. All the famous sounds from Trilogy can still be found in enhanced form within our current Bass module, Trilian - which is based on our STEAM engine.

Upgrades are available in the Techshop.


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Tob takes Trilian on a nasty little Hip-Hop spin. The clever thing here is that all the sounds are coming from Trilian, including all the blips, groovy arpeggiated sweeps and squeeky fifth lines too. Definitely shows Trilian's power to move the hind quarters! Some freaky Stylus RMX work here too....

FEATURES: Trilian and Stylus RMX

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This is an instant classic that really shows off what's possible with Trilian and the sound menus of the RMX Core Library. 

FEATURING: Stylus RMX and Trilian

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This one comes with a built-in party! Tob brings back the glorious grease of the 70's by serving up the thick Old School Funk bass in a mix that Bootsy would surely dig.

All the synths and clav sounds are coming from quirky ways to use Trilian too. Really shows you how much fun can be had with just Trilian and Stylus RMX. Even the organ is coming from Trilian by running it through a leslie effect!

FEATURES: Trilian and Stylus RMX

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Tob cranks Trilian to "11" here with a great example of the Classic Rock Pick Bass, by running it through Amplitube. You get ultimate flexibilty in tone, since the amp sound isn't "locked" into the raw samples, so you can use Trilian's built-in amps or external ones. All the synth stuff and guitarish parts in the bridge are Trilian too.

FEATURES: Trilian Classic Rock Pick Bass, Stylus RMX and custom power chord samples

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Tobias whips up another batch of fun here that features Trilian's "Moogy" side. All the synths in this tune are coming from Trilian, it's a real showcase for how smooth, fat and analog Trilian can sound. In fact, if you didn't know that this was all virtual...I think it would be very hard to guess that this wasn't done with a bunch of vintage analogs. Love that Stevie Wonder style-ending too!

FEATURES: Trilian and Stylus RMX

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One of the most unique Basses in Trilian is the Martin Dreadnought Acoustic Bass Guitar, which is great in more exposed settings like this - perfect for those unplugged moments. The Guitar is live on this one, Stylus RMX for percussion and drums, and everything else (even the pseudo-Wurltizer) is from Trilian. 

FEATURES: Trilian Acoustic Bass Guitar, Stylus RMX and Live Guitar

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Tobias decided to poke a little fun at us LA types! He definitely nails the vibe and feel of 70s/80s "Happy Jazz" ala Carlton, Graydon and the Crusaders. What's really remarkable though, is that this whole track is Trilian, and he's getting so much mileage out of it beyond using it for the Electric Bass part....All the higher guitar and keyboard parts are treated with clever FX to transform Trilian and Stylus RMX into a tight little slick "Baked Potato" band. :-)

FEATURES: Trilian and Stylus RMX

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EP takes us on a late-night "Chocolate City" journey back in time, with a very good example of using the True Staccato technique to create a realistic repeated note Bass line using the "Old School Fingered" Bass. It's a cool and warm Fender/Music Man type of sound, and Eric played this primarily in real-time. The mellow Rhodes sound is coming from the Jaco Harmonic Tines patch (!), and the strings are coming from Omnisphere. Groovy!

FEATURES: Trilian, Stylus RMX and Omnisphere

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This track is all Trilian and really shows how it can be used as an amazing all around synth for Club tracks. You can hear the quality of Trilian's filters really well in this track. As usual, another highly creative, and mind-expanding track from UK remixer Adrian Clarida.

FEATURES: Trilian and Stylus RMX

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Cool "concept" demo from Tom (aka:Atlas Plug), that shows off the vast potential and beauty of having all three types of Bass all in one very powerful instrument.

The demo starts with some Electric Bass harmonics, and an Acoustic Bass line. Then a TB-303 "Acid" sound is added, and soon a Fretless counter line. Pretty soon, more an more synth textures are woven in to create a powerful linear force. Also shows how cool Trilian is for Synth lines very well. This demo is also a showcase for Tom's considerable Stylus RMX drum programming chops!

FEATURES: Trilian and Stylus RMX

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Created with 15 Trilian parts using many different fretless sounds, articulations and FX in creative ways, to create a rich tapestry and layered result. Hans makes very clever use of the Harmonics and Harmonic FX to use them as Chords and Melodic lines. He also uses the Fretless X-notes to build the groove subdivision. His programming of the Jaco True Staccato sound is very realistic too, as well as the multiple expressive solo lines that each use a different Bass. There's also a fat Minimoog Ballad synth Bass at the bottom of this mix, that really anchors everything. Great example of how you can really compose with Bass sounds using Trilian.

FEATURES: Trilian and Stylus RMX

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Adrian demos Trilian in a club setting....all the synths in this track are coming from Trilian.

FEATURES: Trilian and Stylus RMX

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Big, Dark and just a little bit scary! Diego shows a whole bunch of different Basses in this track, starting with the Blown OSCar sound. He then adds some of the Finger Funk Electrics and ends with building into some of the radical sync shreds that Trilian can do. 

FEATURES: Trilian, Stylus RMX with Backbeat

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Its great how Chris starts this demo with just the superfat Moog Voyager sound, and then builds more and more textures on the same line. This is really only possible with Trilogy because there are so many types of synth textures represented (Moog, Roland, Oberheim, OSCar, ARP and many others).

Good one for a video game!

100% Trilogy and Stylus

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Ned's a Hockey fan and there's just something about this demo that makes us think he secretly would like to be "fightin' on the ice"!

Great example of how Trilian can be more than a little rude!

FEATURES: Trilian and Stylus RMX

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Mind-expanding demo showing some really unusual ways to use Trilian as a synth. The "sub kick" sound is super, super low (you won't hear it on small speakers at all) is actually a Trilian Bass sound.

FEATURES: Trilian and Stylus RMX

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All the low basses and synths in this demo are coming from Trilian.

FEATURING: Stylus RMX, Trilian, Metamorphosis and Omnisphere

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One of the coolest things about this demo is that the Trilian Bass parts were played by Larry on his MIDI Guitar, which really makes a big difference in the realism of those bass parts. This is featuring the Modern Funk Bass, which was originally from Trilogy, but also appears in Trilian.

FEATURING: Trilian, Stylus RMX, Omnisphere and Live Guitar

Oblivious - Mike Zick
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Fat and chunky synth bass for this rock remix.

FEATURING: Stylus RMX, Trilian, Omnisphere and custom guitar loop

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Very authentic dub sound created here by the ever-prolific demo god Tobias! Everything in the track is created only with Trilian and the RMX Core Library. Amazing use of Trilian for all musical parts.

FEATURING: Trilian and Stylus RMX

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This track has a great laidback, bluesy vibe to it. Larry's MIDI Guitar played Trilian works so well with the Classic Muted Basses.

FEATURING: Stylus RMX, Omnisphere, Trilian and Live Guitar

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This is a nice example of how Trilian's muted electric basses can sit in an electronic, chill-out setting.

FEATURING: Stylus RMX, Trilian and Omnisphere

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Under the Radar (aka: Richard Souther) does some very smoky and cool riffing here with the original Trilogy Upright Bass - which is also included in Trilian.

FEATURES: Stylus RMX, Trilian, Vocal Planet

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Great use of Trilian's Jaco Fretless played from MIDI Guitar in a traditional Spanish pop arrangement. 

FEATURING: Stylus RMX, Trilian, Omnisphere and Live Guitar

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A short R&B snippet showing some deep tones with Trilian. The lead sound is also coming from Trilian.

FEATURING: Stylus RMX, Trilian and Omnisphere

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The Classic Trilogy Upright works great in Chillout tracks. Enhanced version is included in Trilian.

FEATURES: Trilian, Stylus RMX, Omnisphere and custom samples

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Tobias gives a great example of using Trilian, Omnisphere and RMX together in a modern scoring setting - nice variety of Synth tones and arpeggiation lines from Trilian in a convincing "action cue" kind of setting. The percussion and drums are all coming from Stylus RMX, and the ambient vocals and granular textures are coming from Omnisphere....everything else is Trilian.

FEATURING: Trilian, Stylus RMX and Omnisphere

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This one truly RAWKS! 

Tob is one of the principal contributors to the RMX Core Library, so he knows it like the back of his hand. Daniel Forsblom's killer guitar work is one of the highlights of this track. 

FEATURING: Trilian Rock & Roll Bass, Stylus RMX and Live Guitar

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While this is mainly a gorgeous example of how Omnisphere and Stylus RMX can be used in Film Music cues, you can also hear how well the original Trilogy Upright Bass works in this kind of setting. This bass is also available in Trilian in enhanced form.

FEATURING: Omnisphere, Stylus RMX and Trilian

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Showcasing Trilian in a more "Zimmer"-style cue, Tob creatively features the Picked Electric Basses by using delays and then accenting the main part with Drones and Pulses from Trilian's synth section. This is a good example of how effective Trilian can be in a non-pop setting. Everything is Trilian, except Omnisphere for the strings and RMX for the percussion and Noise FX. 

FEATURING: Trilian, Stylus RMX and Omnisphere

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*All other manufacturers' product names used in this instrument are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with Spectrasonics. These trademarks of other manufacturers are used solely to identify the products of those manufacturers whose tones and sounds were studied during Spectrasonics sound development.



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INTERFACE
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LEGACY PRODUCT
Trilogy is a discontinued product and gave birth to Trilian which has been developed totally in house at Spectrasonics.

QUICK LINKS
Trilian - Total Bass Module
Trilogy
Trilogy - CC# List
Trilogy - Patch List
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