New Plugsound Collection Covers Fretted Instruments
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December 12, 2002
Plugsound 2 "Fretted Instruments" brings together an unprecedented
collection of instruments. Guitars and basses of course, but it's a huge
collection that doesn't stop here... It's for pop and contemporary music
obviously, and it also excels in ethnic and electro styles.
The sound library includes a whooping 660 MB of samples (over 3,000) used
by 256 presets. Under the hood is the UVI-Engine which features
dual multimode filters, two envelopes, complete MIDI control via Continuous
Controllers, a mono-legato mode and much more.
Key benefits of Plugsound include:
- One-stop Guitar and Bass sound shop
- Filters and transposition engine
- Easy to use interface
- Ability to open this plug-in into all major sequencers on Mac and PC
- Save all edited parameters within your current sequence
- It's possible to get over 200 stereo voices of polyphony on current computer systems.
Fretted Instruments kicks off with an acoustic guitar section. It includes a
Nylon guitar custom-made by acclaimed maker Gerome, and a wonderful
"spanish-style" nylon guitar. Moving on to steel strings, a 12 strings and
several 6 strings acoustics (from makers Guild, Martin, Gerome and Maruha)
are featured. Several Dobro and Bottleneck presets add their unique color to
the acoustic section. The electric guitar section packs several clean Strat'
sounds through D.I. or amps like Jazz Chorus or Twin reverb. The D.I. are
especially handy if you own an amp modeling effect plug-in. Distorted Strat'
is included too, captured with a ubiquitous SM57. The legendary Gibson Les
Paul is next, sampled through several different amps. The electric section
then provides the Gibson 335, Jazz guitars, muted playing style guitars,
etc.
The Baas section starts with a selection of Double Basses. Then a
wide range of electric bass is covered, both fretted and fretless, including
all the classic instruments like Jazz Bass, and many others, covering all
current styles. And it's not all: volume two include many more sounds like
some superb Harp presets and many "ethnic" sounds.
The Ethnic section includes a great selection of usually very hard to find
multisamples like Banjo, Mandolin, Celtic guitar, Lute, Sitar (and electric
Sitar), Baglamas, Bozouki, Jubus, Oud, Lute from Morocco, Saz and Tzouras.
Each Plugsound volume is a virtual instrument based on a professional sample
library, available as a VST2, MAS and RTAS plug-in. This means that it can
be used in Cubase, Nuendo, Digital Performer, Logic Audio, Pro Tools (Mac
only), and even Sonar (with a wrapper). Plugsound 2 "Fretted Instruments" is
supplied on a CDROM with printed manual and sound listings, plus
multi-language PDF manuals & tutorials. Plugsound 2 is available worldwide
now, for a price of 99 USD (Recommended Retail). For more information, visit their web site at www.plugsound.com. |
