Big Fish Acoustic Legends HD Kontakt 2 Mac PC Player

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Presenting 40,000 of the finest acoustic guitars in the world, sampled in glorious high definition 24-bit 96kHz stereo, now available in this premium three-DVD, 19 gigabyte collection. This broad collection of acoustic guitars is sampled in the finest detail in a variety of playing styles, including picked notes, finger picked notes, natural and artificial harmonics, harmonic chords, mutes, chords, release layers, and even fret noise sampled for each guitar. Included in the library are several different steel string guitars, nylon strings, twelve strings, acoustic bass, as well as a bonus folder featuring mandolin, ukulele, and banjo. Acoustic Legends HD features the world's best guitars from McPherson, Taylor, Gibson, Martin, and other manufacturers. Also featured are numerous bonus patches of special effects, doubled guitars, and more. Acoustic Legends HD also features chord banks containing twelve different chord types in varying positions, with multiple velocity layers and multiple takes per layer, and with both up-strokes and down-strokes, making it simple to create fully authentic rhythm guitar parts. Experience legendary acoustic guitars, sampled in gorgeous detail and now available in one exquisite virtual instrumentAcoustic Legends HD comes in AU, VST, RTAS, DX, and standalone versions. Installation is simple and relies on Native Instruments' new NI Service Center feature. It's convenient, but you will need Internet access and a fast connection. KP DutyAcoustic Legends HD uses Native Instruments Kontakt Player 2 (KP2), which eliminates the need for multiple, dedicated standalone applications: libraries using KP2 can launch within a single, multitimbral instantiation. If you need to edit the sounds in greater detail, you can load the library into Kontakt 2. The KP2 interface bears a strong resemblance to its full-featured Kontakt 2 sibling, albeit without user access to the latter's powerful script-creation and sampling features.Nonetheless, Acoustic Legends HD gives you a performance-oriented layout with a number of important controls at your fingertips. The parameters you can tweak vary by instrument, but the most common ones belong to reverb, EQ, and stereo width. Most of the conventional guitar patches give you control over the release samples and level of fret noise, whereas the chord banks do not offer decay controls.One of the most challenging guitar techniques to reproduce with a keyboard is a convincing strum. With that in mind, Acoustic Legends HD offers a bank of strummed chords, including muted strokes for rhythmic variation. Keyswitches let you access different chord inversions and a relatively generous set of chord qualities, such as major, minor, major seventh, and half-diminished. If you need to change keys, a built-in capo function limits the range of low notes and inversion choices, just as a real capo would when placed on a guitar.The Xtra Special bank is for players who are less insistent on authenticity. The bank contains guitars mutated into pads, tempo-synchronized arpeggios, and just plain weird and rude sounds. I appreciate some of the rhythm-oriented, tempo-sync patches, but many of the other patches strike me as filler. High Strung Appropriately, the conventional instruments sound like their sources: the Gibsons are brassy with a prominent midrange; the Martins and Taylors sound bright, detailed, and full; and the fingerpicked Lowden 025 is sweet and mellow The two main guitar folders break down into picked and fingerpicked instruments. Although steel-string guitars predominate, the collection does offer a couple of nylon-string instruments played with a pick and fingers. In addition, the Xtra bank contains some decent banjos, ukuleles, and a nice mandolin tremolo patch — fortunately, with a uniform tremolo speed across the keyboard. Nice-sounding variations are available throughout the library, including keyswitched instruments with slides mapped to alternate keys or keyswitched chord inversions. The bank of h... read more

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