Evolution Acoustic Guitar "Steel Strings" Now Available!

[Gregjazz]

Evolution Acoustic Guitar - Steel Strings


Until now, if you wanted a realistic acoustic guitar in your productions, the only serious option was to use a real guitarist. Numerous sample libraries and virtual instruments have come and gone that proclaimed realism, but fell far short of delivering on that promise. At best, they could be used to fill in a guitar part in pre-production mock ups that would later need to be replaced by a real guitar performance. All were better buried in the mix rather than exposed.

Announcing Evolution™ Acoustic Guitar - Steel Strings, the acoustic guitar sample library that will change your perception of what is possible for MIDI-based guitar simulation.

Evolution Acoustic Guitar - Steel Strings presents a breakthrough in sampled acoustic guitar. No other acoustic guitar sample library or virtual instrument has achieved the same level of realism. From single notes to chord strums, Evolution Acoustic Guitar - Steel Strings uses a combination of sampling, scripting, and physical modeling-based principles to bring you an astonishingly easy to play KONTAKT 4 sample library with results so realistic they can be used in final productions with confidence.

Listen to the demos for yourself. Let your ears be the judge.

Audio Demos:
Demo #1: The Storyteller
Demo #2: Bar None

Features:
- Both fingered and picked articulations totaling 6.5 GB of uncompressed samples.
- Extensive scripting from the Evolution guitar engine, makes for an intuitive, instant playable library from either or a MIDI keyboard or when sequencing.
- Individually sampled strings, powered by a performance modeled string/fret selection engine.
- A proprietary resonance engine for unparalleled organic realism from a sample library.
- 4x alternating samples to avoid the machine gun effect when repeating notes.
- A unique monophonic/polyphonic hybrid. Play legato lead lines or chordal parts in a single patch.
- Alternate tunings that not only change the range of the instrument, but also realistically alter the tone of individual strings.
- A polyphonic slide engine that enables you to slide from one note to any other note.

Format:
Due to the extensive scripting, this sample library is available in KONTAKT 4 format only. The sample library requires the full retail version of KONTAKT 4, so it is not compatible with the free KONTAKT Player.

Price:
$159 USD (regularly $199), instantly downloadable purchase. This $40 OFF introductory discount expires on April 30th at 11:59 PM PDT.

Visit the product page here: Evolution Acoustic Guitar - Steel Strings sample library for KONTAKT

Or you can click here to order Steel Strings directly

[Ah_Dziz]

holy crap. i'm glad that ascap checks come next week. congrats on getting it done.

[Imyself]

can you please! stop to make so great products...
i have enough white hair like this
i came back to try to do music again after a very long time without playing... and i discover the MAO (there was'nt something like this there is thirty years)
i just discovered your wonderful and so realistic Cherry Bass... and i dream to have your Strawberry guitar... and so your Acoustic Guitar...

for all your so wonderful instruments...

[eDrummist]

Awesome. Just got it. Evolution Acoustic Guitar - Steel Steel Strings is by far, the most realistic virtual acoustic guitar library on the market. I am no longer missing the copy of RealGuitar I sold -- not even comparable to that or my other KONTAKT acoustic guitar libraries. Nothing else sounds as real, as good and also includes chord strums.

You remain a genius and true artist in the sampling world, Greg. Kudos.

[Disclosure: I'm a huge fan (I prefer fan man to fan boy) of Orange Tree Samples and give them -- as well as a number of other devs whose products I use and enjoy -- marketing, branding and website advice.]

[TristezaOrange]

http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/

Νοοοοοοοοοοοοοοοοοοοοοοοοοοοοοοοοοοο! I still don't have K4!

Does it work with K4 Player in time-limited demo mode Greg? Until I get K4, that is. Then it's fun, fun, fun all the time!

[Gregjazz]

Does it work with K4 Player in time-limited demo mode Greg? Until I get K4, that is. Then it's fun, fun, fun all the time!

I mean, it'll work in the Player for 15 minutes at a time... It's just that the library exceeded the number of samples earlier versions of Kontakt could even have in a single instrument.

[TristezaOrange]

It's just that the library exceeded the number of samples earlier versions of Kontakt could even have in a single instrument.

Yeah, I remember you mentioning that in another thread! I'm stuck on K3.5 right now (mainly because I decided that getting more sample libraries was more important than updating K4, so totally my fault ). Still, I think that I'll go for the Acoustic first and then update the sampler itself - call me a huge fan.

[koolkeys]

Congrats on this Greg. Been looking forward to seeing this(and I honestly don't look forward to much any more, but the quest for good acoustic guitar has been the bane of many computer musicians' lives, lol).

Brent

[eDrummist]

...the quest for good acoustic guitar has been the bane of many computer musicians' lives, lol).
Brent

+1

I've invested thousands of dollars on that quest. It started in the mid 1980s when I was using an Atari ST (just for sequencing, of course!), then Sonic Implants and lots of other Soundfonts, then Virtual Guitarist, then RealGuitar, then a bunch of Gigasamples, then KONTAKT sample libraries... The Evolution guitar line is the realization of my expectations/hopes for all those years. It's been huge for me.

[As we quietly await the inevitable "Why not just learn to play guitar?" post that occurs in almost every thread related to realistic guitar sample libraries and VSTs. Brent, I think you know what I'm talking about! ]

[BERFAB]

...the quest for good acoustic guitar has been the bane of many computer musicians' lives, lol).
Brent

+1

[As we quietly await the inevitable "Why not just learn to play guitar?" post that occurs in almost every thread related to realistic guitar sample libraries and VSTs. Brent, I think you know what I'm talking about! ]

Not an admonishment, but an anecdote: I too have purchased every credible guitar sample collection I could lay my hands on over the years (including the excellent EEG). I'm trained as a keyboard player but never took a lesson on the guitar.

In the last decade, I've kept a guitar close by in the studio to pass the time during logins and bootups and renderings and downloads. Over time, I've gradually started recording my live guitar playing, to fairly good effect.

And now, at this stage, I can say that I've turned a rudimentary understanding of the guitar into a proficiency at playing and composing. I'm not going to be on the cover of Guitar Player anytime soon, but for my recording needs, I've got many of the bases covered.

Now, I still use the software quite a bit, but it's nice to be able to fill in the gaps with live playing.

Cheers
-B

[Tom music]

Why not just learn to play a acoustic guitar??








LOL, had to do that Edrummist )
I too have waited a while for this. I actually "have" learned to play since Gregg started talking about this but I still am struggling at getting a great recording!! So, I am still excited about getting this.. Great job as always!!

[noiseboyuk]

Another anecdote:

I've played guitar since I was a teenager. I'm far from brilliant, but I've got my own style and can make some decent-enough noises with appropriate editing. And it's fun.

I got Evolution Electric in a sale cos it was so cheap and clearly very good. It won't do a lot of what I'd naturally do as a guitarist, but at some things it's very good indeed. However (and this is the point of the story) I've just had to turn in a track for a TV show at 10 different tempos. It works really nicely in Evolution. And every version of the tempo is no harder than changing the tempo! Using time-stretch wouldn't sound nearly as good, and we're talking a HUGE range here. (Oh, and not to mention that the part gets realllly fast, and as I confessed, I'm really not that good!) So even for a guitarist of mediocre skill, virtual guitars as good as Greg's have a place.

All power to you, Greg!

[Gregjazz]

It's almost a different issue when it comes to acoustic guitar, though. You can't just pick it up and record with it, unless you're just using a built-in piezo pickup (which has a much different sound than a mic'd acoustic guitar). I know for myself, even though I play guitar, a lot of times it's more convenient to just load up a sample library--especially when it comes to acoustic guitar.

Otherwise I'd have to set up the mics, adjust the gain levels, record a few tests to make sure the mic placement and volumes are good, and then run back and forth to record a few takes.

When you're in that moment of inspiration, and need to add an acoustic guitar track to your song, you always have Steel Strings just a few clicks away...

[gbevin]

@Greg, even more so for live playing. An acoustic guitar for gigs is really a problem, unless you totally butcher the sound or spend ages in soundcheck.

[mojamusic]

Greg, this sounds incredible! Are we to believe that you can play this in real-time (as with your other libs) or are there a ton of keyswitches to learn. We wanna see some video of thins thing played live

I am completely amazed by the sound of this. Great work!

Myron