Spectrasonics' new Steam‑driven bass module bundles 34GB of electric, acoustic and synth basses into one package. We delve deep and give you the lowdown. Those of you who upgraded from Spectrasonics' Atmosphere to the all‑singing, all‑dancing Omnisphere over the last year will have enjoyed its remarkable metamorphosis from a comparatively simple plug‑in instrument to a complex, highly programmable and versatile sample‑based soft synth. That evolution occurred via the creation of Omnisphere's large, imaginative sample library, and also courtesy of the intricate programming functions introduced in Spectrasonics' custom 'Steam' sound engine.

The Californian company have now completed a similarly radical transformation of the popular Trilogy bass module: renamed Trilian, this souped‑up instrument now enjoys all the advantages of Steam and sports a brand new 34GB core library to boot. All of Spectrasonics Steam‑powered instruments (to date, Omnisphere and Trilian) must be installed in the same folder, so if you've already installed Omnisphere on your internal or external hard drive, you're obliged to locate Trilian's software and samples in the same place.

As the Trilian core library is large, this may necessitate having to move your Steam folder to a new, larger-capacity drive, a straightforward operation that is explained in Trilian's printed user guide. For those who own both, the v1.1 version of Omnisphere can play Trilian patches, but as Omnisphere has more parameters than Trilian, the reverse is not true. Installation and on-line authorisation took about 90 minutes and went fine for me, with hardly any swearing.

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The tutorial video clip included on the installation DVD explained that I needed to direct the installer to the folder level above my existing Steam folder — and, having heeded that advice, everything was plain sailing. Well, almost everything: once installation is complete, users are advised to download updates to the player software, sound library and patch library before attempting to make music, but, ironically, Trilian's 'check for updates' button didn't work! Fortunately Spectrasonics' on‑line updates page isn't hard to find and the updates restored the impotent button to full health. Trilian groups the most important top-level controls on one page for quick editing. Having served up pumping bass lines to the trade since 2003, Trilogy has now been discontinued, but the good news is that anyone who bought the instrument during 2009 will receive a free upgrade to Trilian. The same applies to all Trilogy Intel Mac customers. Other Trilogy owners will get a substantial discount on the new module — and if you're in doubt which category you fall into, you can follow the 'upgrade' link on the Spectrasonics Trilian instrument web page and check what your price (if any) will be.

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Trilogy die-hards will be pleased to note that Trilian incorporates Trilogy's 3.1GB core library along with updated versions of its factory patches (see below for details). However, Trilogy user data can't be imported, so if you want to use your existing custom patches in the new instrument you'll have to recreate them manually. Alternatively, as Trilian and Trilogy will run side-by-side within a project, you can continue to run your old Trilogy patches, with one caveat: Spectrasonics warn that 'Trilogy is no longer supported on the newest operating systems and hardware, so may not perform as expected.” Some former Trilogy patches have been merged at patch level: for example, the miked and DI versions of Trilogy's upright bass's three dynamic layers, previously presented as six separate patches, are now united in a single Trilian patch. This streamlined approach helps to de‑clutter the patch directory and makes the instrument simpler to use, but if you want to access any of the original Trilogy factory patches, they're all faithfully preserved as single Trilian 'soundsources'.