The acoustic bass guitar is something rarely sampled, and they have sampled separate index finger and middle finger variations for every articulation, including sustains, marcatos, pops, slaps and more... (not to mention effects and slides toolbox).
The clean electric guitar is simple yet powerful - not distorted to the point of being crunchy, but it's amped, not direct in. The Studio B guitars programming includes vibrato depth/speed control via mod wheel, while real-time harmonic feedback can be dialed in via CC knob (exclusive Resonator Technology developed with Theo Krueger). All articulations are at your fingertips from one MIDI channel.
The acoustic drum kits were recorded and programmed using the true multitrack technique. The user is provided with eight mic positions including full bleed in every mic. One snare crack and its felt through all the mics, which can be assigned to separate outputs from Kontakt, allowing for individual gating, EQing and reverb'ing of each mic. They sampled two kits played with sticks and one kit played with hot-rod brushes.
Studio B is shipping in Kontakt format on May 25th at an introductory price of US$149 (MSRP US$199) with GigaStudio and HALion formats to ship late June.
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