Publisher : Orange Tree Samples
Format : Kontakt (5.7.0+)
Quality : Stereo 44.1 kHz 24 bits
- 4.38 GB
Description : Acoustic guitar with a rubber bridge
Since the late 2010s, rubber bridge guitars have been multiplying throughout indie rock music, even making notable appearances in pop music. Although people have been using various approaches throughout history to give guitars a more muted sound, the concept of using a rubber bridge is thanks to Reuben Cox, luthier and owner of Old Style Guitar Shop in Los Angeles, California. His unique addition of a rubber bridge tastefully dampens the guitar’s sustain, giving notes a prominent/plucky attack with a swift, yet pure, decay.
Due to the naturally quiet volume of these guitars, which are commonly smaller sized parlor guitars, a high output pickup is typically installed for amplification. Part of the rubber bridge guitar’s magical sound comes from the duality between the pristine, crisp acoustic sound of the instrument and the rich, beefy pickup signal.
Evolution Rubber Bridge was recorded using a nearly century-old parlor guitar, converted into a rubber guitar bridge and fitted with a classic Tokyo-style gold foil pickup. The pickup and stereo mic signals were recorded separately so that you can blend between the warm, punchy sound of the pickup and the crisp, pure mic signal. Evolution Rubber Bridge was recorded with the guitar tuned down a whole step from standard tuning, giving it a deeper tone and naturally lower playable range.
We developed the library in collaboration with Rosewood Recording Company, one of Utah’s most venerable recording studios. Guy Randle, the owner and recording engineer at Rosewood Recording Company, incorporated analog audio equipment to skillfully sculpt and emphasize the rich tonal qualities of the guitar. Evolution Rubber Bridge includes both the as-recorded signal as well as an enhanced signal.
Evolution Rubber Bridge is based on our Evolution engine, which provides you with a wealth of appointments: an innovative strumming pattern editor, automatic chord detection, and a comprehensive collection of built-in effects for adding the final polish to the guitar tone. If you’ve used any of our guitar or bass libraries that use the Evolution engine, its interface and workflow will be very familiar to you.
The library includes many ready-to-use factory presets for a variety of guitar tones. Some presets focus on the acoustic side of the guitar, with pristine, clean tones, while other presets take advantage of the electric component of the guitar, running its pickup signal out a guitar cabinet, sometimes with spring reverb or even distortion added.
Features :
• A collection of built-in effects for ready-to-play rubber-bridge acoustic guitar sounds
• Pattern editor and chord triggering for authentic strumming and fingerpicking
• Adjustable pick position using our proprietary physical modeling technology
• Powerful mapping system that lets you define how articulations are triggered using parameters like velocity ranges, MIDI CCs, latching and non-latching key switches, and more
• 6.9GB of samples (compressed to 3.5GB using the lossless NCW audio format)
• Articulations such as sustain, palm mute, mute, natural harmonics, and effects such as slap, soft strumming, body strikes, and more
• Legato samples for slides, hammer-ons, and pull-offs
• Sampled in 3 speakers and 4 omnidirectional speakers repetitions
• NKS support
Version 1.3.0 (2025-07-02) :
Added :
• 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.
• MIDI guitar setting is now a dropdown menu with different options for how each string is mapped to different MIDI channels.
• “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.
• “Release Slide Down” articulation can now get selected even after a note is initially triggered.
Fixed :
• Pitch bend modes intermittently not affecting notes.
• A bug where strumming performance FX wouldn’t mute notes held on the keyboard in certain situations.
• A bug where certain strummed chords would get played as legato in specific scenarios.
About the update :
The distribution contains two folders in the root directory:
• Evolution Rubber Bridge 1.3.0 [Orange Tree Samples] – a full-size library
• Evolution Rubber Bridge 1.3.0 Update [Orange Tree Samples] – an update for owners of the previous version
To install the update, you need to copy and replace the contents of the Evolution Rubber Bridge 1.3.0 Update [Orange Tree Samples] folder into the root folder of the library .
