Scarbee
Scarbee
Scarbee is a Danish virtual instruments company founded in 1999 by bassist and producer Thomas Hansen Skarbye. The company specializes in deeply sampled software instruments for Kontakt, with a catalog focused on electric basses and vintage keyboards. Early bass titles such as the J-Slap and J-Fingered helped establish Scarbee's reputation for capturing the articulation and dynamics of real pla...
Scarbee is a Danish virtual instruments company founded in 1999 by bassist and producer Thomas Hansen Skarbye. The company specializes in deeply sampled software instruments for Kontakt, with a catalog focused on electric basses and vintage keyboards. Early bass titles such as the J-Slap and J-Fingered helped establish Scarbee's reputation for capturing the articulation and dynamics of real players, with subsequent releases expanding the approach to a wide range of instruments.
The Scarbee catalog is distributed both directly and through a long-running partnership with Native Instruments, where many titles ship as part of Komplete or as standalone Kontakt Player libraries. Bass instruments include the Scarbee Jay-Bass, MM-Bass, Pre-Bass, Rickenbacker Bass, and Sun Bass. Keyboard offerings include the Scarbee Mark 1 (Rhodes-style electric piano), Clavinet/Pianet, A-200 (Wurlitzer-style), Vintage Keys, and the Classic EP-88s. Other releases include the Scarbee Funk Guitarist and Alicia's Keys, an acoustic piano library co-developed with Alicia Keys.
Scarbee has also collaborated with KORG on virtual versions of classic keyboard instruments. The libraries are commonly used by composers, producers, and songwriters in pop, R&B, hip-hop, and film/TV scoring contexts.
Scarbee has 2 products cataloged on Equipboard, including Kontakt Instrument. Their gear is featured by 8 artists, with the strongest followings in Rock, Electronic, and Funk / Soul. Notable users include Mike Shinoda, Charlie Puth, and Shoji Meguro.
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