Publisher: Orange Tree Samples
Format: Kontakt
- 8.22 GB
Description: Electric guitar
Hailing from the fiery core of the earth comes the hottest virtual 8 string guitar library for metal and rock. Evolution Dracus covers a wide variety of techniques and articulations, whether it’s epic shredding leads or gigantic quadruple-tracked rhythm tracks. The sample library boasts an expansive note range, from piercing shrieks in the highest register to monstrous growls emanating far below a standard 6 string guitar’s capabilities. Evolution Dracus’s robust effects engine features a myriad of virtual stompboxes, rack effects, amps, and guitar cabinets to select from. The library also includes a ton of factory presets for instantly usable clean, crunchy, and distorted tones. With 17 GB of sample content and well over 15,000 samples, this powerhouse electric guitar sample library covers palm mutes, pinch harmonics, tapping, legato articulations like hammer-ons and pull-offs, slides, muted chugs, string scrapes, and much more.
Key Features
- Multitracking up to quadruple tracking.
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Adjustable pick position using our proprietary physical modeling technology.
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Various vibrato styles, from classic vibrato to rock and metal vibrato with adjustable depth/speed. Vibrato can be assigned to MIDI CCs or aftertouch.
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Powerful mapping system that lets you set how you want to trigger articulations, using conditions such as velocity ranges, MIDI CCs, latching and non-latching keyswitches, and more.
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Built-in strum pattern editor for authentic guitar strumming.
Sampling Specifications
- Over 15,000 samples, recorded in 24-bit, 48khz.
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Articulations such as sustains, half palm mutes, full palm mutes, mutes, squeals, tapping, natural harmonics, plus special effects such as chugs, scratches, string slaps, and much more.
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MIDI articulations for instant upward/downward grace notes, buzz trills, whole-step slides, whole-step hammer-ons, slides (velocity-based and tempo-synced), octaves, and powerchords.
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Legato samples for slides, hammer-ons, and pull-offs.
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The articulations have 3 dynamics and 4x round-robin.
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Separate pickup signals for controllable pickup blend.
What’s new 1.3.0:
- New settings: “Legato Time Start” and “Legato Time Length” that let you set time thresholds for whether or not the legato articulations will get triggered.
- New setting: “Strum Pattern Dynamic” to control the strumming pattern dynamic in real-time.
- New setting: “Mapping Octave” that shifts the instruments’ entire mapping up/down by octaves.
- New setting: “Performance Effect Muting” to make things like string slaps mute any held notes.
- Improved: String overriding keyswitches are now MIDI channel specific, only applying to notes on the same MIDI channel as the keyswitch.
- Improved: MIDI guitar setting is now a dropdown menu with different options for how each string is mapped to different MIDI channels.
- Improved: “Dynamic Memory” setting is now a dropdown menu named “Sample Purging” that contains an addition option to revert to Kontakt’s own built-in memory handling.
- Improved: “Release Slide Down” articulation can now get selected even after a note is initially triggered.
- Fixed pitch bend modes intermittently not affecting notes.
- Fixed a bug where strumming performance FX wouldn’t mute notes held on the keyboard in certain situations.
- Fixed a bug where certain strummed chords would get played as legato in specific scenarios.
