Engine RoomĪs with a top‑notch orchestral sample library, all these keyswitched performance articulations require some learning to use effectively. In terms of the sampling itself, this is detailed stuff.
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Articulations - which are available on all strings and all frets - include sustained notes with up/down and finger/thumb/pick/nail pick, muted, legato (hammer-on/pull-off), slides (up and down by one and two frets plus slides into notes), release noises, chucka‑chuckas (muted strummed chords), harmonics and various effects (pick noises, body knocks, slaps, for example).
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Given the number of articulations available in each, these are pretty hefty but there are, of course, plenty of ways to lighten the load while tracking (for example, just using one mic channel, adjusting the DFD buffer) even if you then give Acou6tics full reign when you come to render your final mix.Īll the instruments were recorded using a stereo mic configuration in a fairly dry space and with an additional piezo channel. You get three versions of each instrument: a 'full' version that contains all the articulation and performance options and uses the intelligent voicing built into the engine a 'General MIDI' version that includes various articulations but where the voicing of notes/chords simply reflects where you play on your piano keyboard and a 'string by MIDI channel' version where each string responds to a different MIDI channel and which would, I suspect, suit some MIDI guitar controllers.Īcou6tics includes flexible microphone and effects options to tailor the sound of each instrument.Of the six acoustic instruments in Acou6tics, the steel-strung, nylon-strung, ukulele and guitalele are supplied in two versions each (all are finger picked but you also get either plectrum or a fingernail-picked version of each) so there are actually 10 presets within each of the three categories mentioned above.
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Large download aside, installation and authorisation proved painless and the structure of the library within Kontakt (either the free Player version or the full version) is simple. In Acou6tics, the six- and 12‑string steel, nylon strung, ukulele, mandolin and guitalele all get the mega‑sampling treatment there is over 12GB of sample data, between 40 samples per instrument, an impressive range of performance articulations, finger-picked and plectrum options where appropriate, and stereo miking plus piezo DI options.
Vir2 are now back with the acoustic equivalent.
If you have not heard what Electri6ity can do, though, do check out the demos on the Vir2 web site in the right hands, it is scarily good. Nick's two reservations were simply that the library could be quite resource hungry and that learning your way around the various keyswitches did take some time. Nick Magnus gave Electri6ity a big thumbs up back in the September 2010 issue of SOS. So does the arrival of Acou6tics mean I should be worried that, in the studio at least, my guitar-playing skills are now completely redundant? Let's find out. While I shouldn't be hypocritical (I use BFD and Superior Drummer for almost all my acoustic drum needs), as a guitar player I was left pretty much open‑mouthed by what a keyboard‑playing friend could coax out of Electi6ity. Vir2 are part of the plot and having targeted the electric guitar player with Electri6ity back in 2010, they now have acoustic guitar players in their sights. Soon, only keyboard players will be left (OK, maybe singers as well, but they won't necessarily have to be very good ones) as the rest of the band or orchestra are recreated in virtual form. When it comes to the recording of music, sample-library companies and their increasingly sophisticated virtual instruments are set on world domination. Having done electric guitars, Vir2 turn their attention to acoustics, but the inexplicable '6' remains intact.
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