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| Product | Plectrum |
| Developer | Vital Arts |
| Primary Type | Sound Module |
| Price (MSRP) | $299 |
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| Copy Protection | Dongle (Syncrosoft eLicenser) |
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Plectrum is a 7.5 Gb virtual instrument library featuring 185 original acoustic instruments, powered by Tascam's GVI streaming sample playback engine. Plectrum is the brainchild of Geoffrey Gee, pianist, composer, and former Senior Soundware Engineer at Kurzweil Music Systems.
Much more than a tool or content library, Plectrum is a creative work of instrument design. Gee created his instruments from sounds made by plucking, strumming, tapping, scraping, and flicking a range of stringed instruments and found objects. Collecting thousands of full length high resolution samples, he voiced and tuned the sounds into full-range, expressive keyboard instruments. Plectrum's interface presents these instruments in nine categories based on these sound sources:
- Strummed Strings
- Struck Strings
- Plucked Strings
- String Harmonics
- Glass
- Ceramics
- Metals
- Found Objects
- Habitats.
Each instrument features a round robin playback that enhances the organic feel and texture of an acoustic instrument. The instruments in Habitats use this feature to offer ever-evolving sound environments with names such as August Morning, Afternoon Rain, Forest Stream, and Crickets.
All KVR Audio news items relating to Plectrum.
| Vital Arts announces Plectrum v2.0 (Now Kontakt Player-based) | 29th October 2008 |
| Tascam announces the end of GigaStudio development | 28th July 2008 |
| Vital Arts updates Plectrum to v1.2 | 25th January 2008 |
| Vital Arts releases Plectrum | 23rd July 2007 |
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| Product: | Plectrum |
| Developer: | Vital Arts |
| Type: | Sound Module |
| Price: | $299 |
| OS&Formats: |      |
Plectrum is a 7.5 Gb virtual instrument library featuring 185 original acoustic instruments, powered by Tascam's GVI streaming sample playback engine. Plectrum is the brainchild of Geoffrey Gee, pianist, composer, and former Senior Soundware Engineer at Kurzweil Music Systems. Much more than a tool or content library, Plectrum is a creative work of instrument design. Gee created his instruments from sounds made by plucking, strumming, tapping, scraping, and flicking a range of stringed instruments and found objects. Collecting thousands of full length high resolution samples, he voiced and tun... [more]
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