Karoryfer Samples release Dubious Electrics for sforzando

15th May 2026

Karoryfer Samples has released Dubious Electrics, a sample library of ten electric instruments for sforzando.

Instrument list:

Extralow bass - a semihollow Washburn AB-95 5-string strung with an extra heavy string on the bottom, tuned to E an octave below a standard bass's low E.
Solid violin bass - an early 60s Eko solidbody.
8-string bass - a Hagstrom 8-string bass from the later 60s.
Wurli Bass VI - Wurlitzer's take on the Fender Bass VI, that is to say a 6-string tuned an octave below a typical electric guitar. Arguably a baritone guitar and not a "true" bass.
Rocket guitar - a Harmony Rocket hollowbody with three pickups, not rocket-shaped in the least.
Violin guitar - a Kingston-brand hollowbody with uneven output.
Longhorn guitar - constructed quite differently than the Danelectro Longhorns, though the incorrectly wired pickups do give it a similarly bright sound.
Fretless guitar - an electric the 80s or 90s, with its frets removed.
12-String guitar - the guitar version of Hagstrom's 8-string bass.
Electric banjo - a solidbody constructed like a typical electric guitar, but with a 28-fret banjo neck and a foam mute which doesn't quite work right.

Total of 6135 samples adding up to 3.44 GB of WAV files.
Every instrument has its own microphonic feedback and differently configured vibrato.
Layering patch for layering up to three instruments.
Microphonic feedback patch using the microphonic feedback samples with controllable pitch.

Dubious Electrics is available for the introductory price of $19 until June 23, 2026 ($39 regular price).

It requires the free Plogue sforzando sampler, which runs on 64-bit Windows and Mac systems and is in beta on Linux, 4 GB of RAM, and an SSD.