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Product Description
With Acoustic Legends HD Acoustic Guitar Sample Library, you will find $40,000 of the finest acoustic guitars, sampled in glorious high definition 24-bit 96kHz stereo, now available in this premium three-DVD, 19 gigabyte collection from Vir2 Instruments. 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 sample 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 included 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 instrument.The onscreen interface allows for control over some of the most important aspects of the guitars' sound. The controls in the upper part of the interface offer access to audio outputs, MIDI channel input, polyphony, as well as standard solo, mute, tune, pan, and volume controls. Below that is an interface specifically designed for and tailored to the Acoustic Legends HD library. The configuration of these knobs varies slightly from instrument to instrument. The top row offers an optimized EQ module allowing you to use a low and/or high shelf, as well as a mid control. A standard reverb module is also offered, with level and size controls to customize the sound, as is a s Top to learn more
A good, but underwhelming collection
This may be the best product on the market, but it doesn't come with what's needed to create a realistic performance and ease of use. The patches sound great, but aren't particularly playable. With VIR2's Electri6ty library, at they have an automatic note detector that makes sure you aren't playing things that could never be played in real life. This sounds excessive, but if you are striving for realism, this is a big help. This is my 3rd library from VIR2 and I've noticed that they have wonderful samples that don't feel incredibly playable. Unfortunately, with acoustic guitars, to my knowledge, there just aren't any products out there that are incredible, so this one is probably the best of the bunch. I hope Prominy, or another company, tackle acoustic guitars in a better fashion.Pros: great naturalish sound, well suited for your own effects or a natural sound. Great stereo sound.Cons: lack of easy playability, few pre-programmed key switches and similar...
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February 9, 2012
(NYC) | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 3
Great Case for a Good Price
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