Publisher : Orange Tree Samples
Format : Kontakt (5.8.0+)
Quality : Stereo 44.1 kHz 24 bits
- 5.97 GB
Description : Electric guitar
Evolution Vintage Gent presents an exquisite hollowbody electric guitar from the mid-1960s. The guitar model we sampled, one of the iconic sounds of the British Invasion era, was originally created a decade earlier in collaboration with Gretsch and legendary guitarist, sound producer, and Nashville sound pioneer Chet Atkins .
This guitar epitomizes the golden age of rock ‘n’ roll, country, and rockabilly. It was a time when guitarists began cranking up the volume, requiring measures to reduce feedback while maintaining the extra volume provided by a hollow body compared to a solid body.
The two pickups were recorded as separate signals that can be mixed as desired. This allows you to achieve any sound—from the crisp tone of the bridge pickup to the meaty tone of the neck pickup, and everything in between.
We developed the library in collaboration with Rosewood Recording Company, one of Utah’s most respected recording studios. Guy Randle , the company’s owner and engineer, used analog audio equipment to skillfully convey and highlight the instrument’s rich tonal qualities, available in both the original direct and amplified signals.
Evolution Vintage Gent is based on our Evolution engine, which offers a wealth of features, including an innovative strumming pattern editor, automatic chord detection, and a vast collection of built-in effects. If you’ve used any of our Evolution- powered guitar or bass libraries , the interface and functionality will be familiar.
The library contains a variety of ready-to-use presets of classic clean sounds and crunchy guitar tones.
Features :
• A collection of built-in effects for creating ready-to-play electric guitar tones
• Pattern editor and chord generation system 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
• 9.6GB of samples (compressed to 5GB using the lossless NCW audio format)
• Articulations such as sustain, palm mute, mute, and natural harmonics, plus effects such as slap, soft strumming, and more
• Legato samples for slides, hammer-ons, and pull-offs
• Sampled in 3 dynamics and 2 circle repeats
• NKS support
Version history :
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 Vintage Gent 1.3.0 [Orange Tree Samples] – a full-size library
• Evolution Vintage Gent 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 Vintage Gent 1.3.0 Update [Orange Tree Samples] folder into the root library folder .
