ROUNDWOUND

ROUNDWOUND is a 10 gig Kontakt library of textural, cinematic guitar performed by young New Zealand guitar aficionado Hugo Butler, as well as MODWHEEL'S own Steve Roche.

The concept started with long single note individualistic performances layered up on each other with the mod wheel sweeping you through those layers, giving the user endless shaping possibilities. Of course as happens at MODWHEEL this was just the start and after weeks of sonic explorations in MODWHEEL'S Stella Maris chapel ROUNDWOUND took on a life of its own. Before long Steve became inspired and joined the fray and some fantastic textural guitar duets became an integral part of the library.

The 64 patches that make up the library all have three separate mic positions (close, mid and far) with each mic having separate controls including pitching up or down an octave, giving even more sound manipulation possabilities.

Each patch also features Scatterbox, MODWHEEL'S own sync'd IRs as well as a step mod allowing for a huge range of rhythmic options as well.

The library is broken into 6 folders.

1 Pads – Long single note guitar (many over a minute long) with the layers giving more intensity when needed via the mod wheel.

2 Textures – much grainier material with the same concept as pads.

3 Two Guitars – Steve and Hugo playing together. It's all about the interaction and subtle blending of different amps and guitars and their reaction within the huge space the Stella Maris chapel offers.

4 Leads – all sorts of guitars suited for use as lead instruments, distorted, slide, clean, bass. The leads also feature monophonic options with legato and glide.

5 bowed – 2 octaves recorded chromatically with three different guitars. Patches allow separate performances or all three layered with crossfade options.

6 Misfits – a treasure chest of inspiration. Guitar recorded chromatically, played through a Leslie cabinet. The mod wheel gives control of Leslie speed up or slow down. Other patches include Pitch Bends (with control of the bend via mod wheel) Harmonics played rhythmically. The related rhythmic patterns can be retuned to any key. Glonks – short sounds with arpeggiator for rhythmic patterns. Plus Retro and short event patches.