Creating Bass Samples

My friend let his beautiful deluxe jazz bass laying around my house for some days. So i decided to create audio samples for later use. In a drum session, if there's time left, I used to create one shots from them, for backups, and also for sampling purpose.

But creating bass samples notes by notes, touch by touch, is a different story. It's quite frustating to manage all of the audio files, program them into a sampler plugin, and adjust them to sound as natural as possible.

So, If you can't afford a pricey bass, or a good sounding bass VSTi, i think this long process is worth it.