Front Porch Banjo 2

Front Porch Banjo 2 is a versatile instrument that will give your music that authentic feel equally at home in an ensemble or solo. With 40 picking/hammer-on/pull-off samples and 8 release samples per note (chromatically sampled – no pitch shifting), you will have plenty of variation at your disposal.

Features:

• Normal pluck – 4 Round Robin samples for each of 3 velocities (normal, soft, and accent) give 12 samples per note.
• Half-tone slides – 2 Round Robin samples for each of 2 velocities (normal and soft).
• Whole-tone slides – 2 Round Robin samples for each of 2 velocities (normal and soft).
• Slide speed control – Slow down or speed up the Half- or Whole-tone slides via graphical control knob or MIDI (CC9).
• Hammer-on and Pull-off articulation – For a more realistic sound, use hammer-ons when going up a scale, pull-offs when coming down a scale, 4 Round Robin samples for each of 2 velocities for both hammer-ons and pull-offs.
• Automatic HO/PO alternation – Automate those scales with automatic switching between normal plucks and Hammer-on or Pull-off articulations.
• Mute articulation – Adjustable string muting sound, control mute tone via graphical control knob or MIDI (CC3).
• Vibrato – Add vibrato to those touching banjo melodies, control both the size and speed of the vibrato via graphical control knob or MIDI (CC14 – size, CC15 – speed).
• Chords! – 16 different chord types, all automatically strummed. Control strum speed via graphical control knob or MIDI (CC20). Chord types available are: Major, Minor, Dominant 7th, Major 7th, Minor 7th, Half dim 7th, Diminished 7th, Augmented 7th, Diminished, Augmented, Sus4, Sus2, Major 6th, Minor 6th, Major 9th, and Open 5th.
• 8 unique release samples per note (2 per 4 velocity levels), volume adjusted via Mod Wheel.
• 5th string open G mapped to its own key.
• 16 string scrapes included for extra authenticity.
• See the Keyboard Map for control summary.
• Read the Front Porch Banjo 2 Manual (PDF) to get a taste of the instrument.
• Every note chromatically sampled (no pitch shifting!).
• 1308 total samples.
• Crisp, clean, 100% stereo 44.1 kHz 16-bit samples throughout.
• Requires full version of Kontakt 5 or above.
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