Surfkisss

An electric guitar sample library with a very wide range of techniques sampled, including preparations with various objects attached to the strings. More than two octaves of keyswitches, 7300 samples and 3.7 GB.

Key features:

• Up to four velocity layers.
• Two to four round robins.
• Ordinary picking, picking near the bridge, hammer-ons and pull-offs.
• Three types of muting: ghost notes, palm muting, palm-muted ghost notes, and ghost notes picked near the bridge.
• Two types of harmonics.
• Three types of slides.
• Fingering noises.
• Picking behind the bridge.
• Tremolo mode for ordinary picking, picking near the bridge, and behind the bridge.
• Pick stabs with six stab locations, body punches, spoon rubs and spoon bounces, using a bottle as a pick.
• Prepared guitar techniques: binder clip, clothespin, and paper in two different locations.
• Three different types of vibrato, plus humanization.
• Two types of release noises.
• Feedback.
• Doubletracking mode.
• Random technique patches.
• Separate pad instrument with additional sympathetic resonance samples.

Walkthrough video: {See video at top of page}

Requires the free Plogue Sforzando sampler, which works on 64-bit Windows and Mac systems, 4 GB RAM, and an SSD.