Manytone has officially announced the release date for ManyGuitar, the new guitar and bass sample based synthesizer plug-in with a library of over 1 GB of 24 bit samples.

The ManyGuitar sound library includes a wide range of guitars and basses. Each instrument has been extensively multi-sampled, often at several velocities and with a mute layer included. In addition to the single note samples, there are some chord sets and also some great new lead guitar styles.

This extensive sound library has been coupled with a highly efficient sample playback engine (based on the Eve One engine from Dash Signature) with a custom amplifier and speaker cabinet emulator and an FX rack designed exclusively for ManyGuitar. This engine allows the musician to take the Manytone guitar and bass samples to new levels of reality. The amp section also includes a deep amp mode that is suited to bass and other low toned guitars.

ManyGuitar will also load soundsets in both Wusik wusikSND and Dash Signature dashSND formats. As well as having access to the huge libraries that are already available for WusikStation from Wusik and EVE from Dash Signature, all of the existing ManyStation soundsets (including all the add-ons for ManyStation such as the recently released Ultimate Bass Kit) can be loaded into ManyGuitar to take advantage of the amplifier/cabinet treatments as well as the well stocked FX rack.

ManyGuitar will be available in Windows VSTi format from 24th October 2005 for US$89.99 (download) or US$104.99 (CD/DVD). Owners of Manytone's ManyStation may purchase ManyGuitar until the end of 2005 at the discounted price of US$49.99.