Cinematic Texture Guitars, the sample library that climbs the ranking of the libraries sold: over 6 GB, 1275 audio files and 25 kits of sounds from the genuine and traditional school of electric guitar, valve amplifiers and pedals, suitable for any need. A complex of pressing rhythms, sustained chords, arpeggios, dynamic strums and colorful melodies, produced by Sample Factory and structured by Big Fish Audio Production Team.
The library
Cinematic Texture Guitars is available via digital download on the website of Big Fish Audio priced at $ 129.95. This library has been prepared for the most popular formats, making it usable in all software and hardware on the market today:
1) Multi format version for Apple Loops, WAV e Feedback:
AIFF Apple Loops: a standard lossless digital format developed by Apple computer Inc., does not use compression;
WAV: Developed by Microsoft and IBM, is a digitally encoded audio format, often regarded as a lossless audio format and capable of maintaining high sound quality;
Feedback: standard format for music loops, developed by the Music Software Company Propellerhead for its Reason and ReCycle programs, which allow you to process sampled loops by changing their times and sounds; it is also compatible with other software from other companies.
2) Format for Contact (full version): Contact Player Free it is not compatible. The library has also been formatted for Kontakt Big Fish Audio KLI 3.0 (Kontakt Loop Interface), which turns this library into a highly flexible music writing tool.
KLI 3.0 version, for which Kontakt 5.8.0 is required, includes:
- 1291 kontakt patches
- 25 combo patches kits
- 17 single instrument patches
- 1249 sliced loop patches.
Support on Kontakt
This sample library, therefore, with a specific format, can be used through Kontakt, a music software produced by the German company Native instruments and on which many bookstores rely. Kontakt's function is to reproduce the recorded sounds offered by the libraries (called audio samples or samples). For this reason it does not have precise and distinctive characteristics, but it will be the recorded sounds and the effects of musical instruments that complete it and give it a specific imprint.
And Cinematic Texture Guitars, as one would expect a good library to contain, has a wide range of audio performances and audio samples, already combined or combinable with the proposals of guitars ed amplifiers.
Outside of Kontakt, however, the library, as mentioned above, can also be used through the various formats available. In fact, it is possible to access and use the numerous riffs and audio loop files it offers, which present both original sounds (dry) and sounds with the whole chain of effects prepared (wet). For customization and the sound design, with the help of Kontakt, it is possible to access all the functions of the library as well as all the effects already mounted.
Thus the versatility of Cinematic Texture Guitars will ensure that lovers of the vibrant and decisive sound of the guitar will find great satisfaction in this product.
Exploring the library
This bookcase is perfectly suited to compositions for tv e movie trailers, sound design, To game average and to any documentary and project that requires guitar textures with a modern twist.
The protagonist of this sample library is the electric guitar. This kind of guitar was born in the United States around the 30s from the need to obtain an instrument characterized by the typical sounds of the guitar, but which could reproduce, through an acoustic amplifier, a powerful and tenacious sound, without the fear that during the performances it could be overwhelmed by the volume of the sound of all other instruments. From this need comes the queen of rock and solos.
Later, effects were applied to the electric guitar to modify its sound and adapt it to the musical genre played or the type of composition. And the goal of this library is to make available the widest range of techniques and effects typical of the electric guitar, such as distortion, delay, chorus / prechorus… in the following paragraphs of the article you will find a further discussion.
So Cinematic Texture Guitars not only offers a great sound, but also rhythms, sustained chords and linear arpeggios that allow you to optimize the timing of the composition and at the same time increase the creativity and variety of contents ... In short, you can find everything you need and high quality to customize the sounds as needed.
The performances of Cinematic Texture Guitars
The library contains sounds obtained from different types of guitar and from various applied techniques. Here is a list of some of the ones you can use:
Lead and rhythm guitars: Many bands often have two guitarists, one specializing in "lead" and the other in "rhythm". Examples are i Beatles and Metallica, bands that use this combination. The lead guitarist provides a lead voice, often scratched by the distortion and therefore well audible, and is grouped with the piano and the main voices; the “rhythm guitarist” instead is part of the rhythm section below, along with instruments such as Bass e battery. The former usually plays few or no chords and draws the melodic line often with techniques such as finger picking, while the latter guides the music with the chords.
Effected guitar: without having effects pedals you can customize the sound of your virtual guitar and search for your sounds with distortion, delay, reverb, chorus ...
Baritone electric guitar: it is a variation of the normal guitar, which allows a lower tuning thanks to a longer scale. The first was introduced by a US company in the late 50s and began appearing in the music of many film soundtracks, especially the genre "spaghetti western". More recently she has appeared in rock and metal.
guitar pads: it belongs to the world of midi, its sound is not amplified acoustically or electrically, but converted into a digital signal and therefore can be processed by a computer; it has a “pad” type midi controller through which the sound can be modulated.
Therefore, it has been designed to capture and make available all the possible sounds produced by the guitars and the relative methods of use. But we can't talk about generic guitars ...
"Legendary" guitars and amplifiers
The library offers sounds of the range of instruments that have made history:
- 1967 Fender Stratocaster, designed by Leo Fender in the fifties and still produced, is considered the electric guitar par excellence;
- Gibson Les Paul Historic '58, it is one of the most famous guitars in the history of rock music, like the Fender Stratocaster;
- 1966 Fender Bassman Blackface, one of the great amplifiers that have written the history of music, its name comes from the black color of the control panel;
- 1974 Marshall Super Lead 1959, guitar amplifier produced by Marshall;
- Mesa Boogie Mark III, amplifier born in the United States around the 80s;
- '70 Orange OP120, amplifier for electric guitar produced by the English company Orange Amplification, the name derives from its characteristic orange color.
Thus, thanks to the sophisticated and accurate research, Cinematic Texture Guitars will immerse you in soft, romantic and delicate atmospheres, in a western saloon, in a science fiction film, in a rock music concert or in any other place you wish to experience emotions. waited.
Overview of graphics and content
Canyon includes both the Amped and Direct Input version of each file.
Different performance views await you: the one concerning the choice of loops presents a wide assortment of panel controls. Visually it is very schematic: the name of the instrument you have chosen and the wrench icon, which allows you to modify the instrument, customize the control panels and create new loops by giving them new and different characters, commands that can also be reached in the home panel, above the keyboard offered by Kontakt.
In the performance view of sliced loops, the waveform view: thanks to an intuitive graphics, it allows you to combine various editing functions. Above the panel we find clearly visible: Volume - Pitch - Pan - Attack - Decay - Mashup - Cutoff - Reso.
Finally, the “Mixer & FX”, an Instrument Menu: what immediately catches the eye is a bar 16 buttons, all combinable and adjustable on different parameters, which manage effects and volumes:
- dynamic effects: distortions (maximum exasperation of signal saturation);
- modulation effects: chorus-prechorus, which allow to enrich the sound thus obtaining a sweet sensation;
- ambient effects: reverb and delay, which create “repetitions” of a certain signal, obtaining an “echo” effect;
- the compressor, useful for limiting the dynamics of the sound;
- the limiter, which prevents unexpected volumes from being exceeded.
These functions can be adjusted to the smallest detail. An example can be made with one of the most used effects, the Reverb: this effect has knobs such as Pre Delay - Size - Color - Damping - Output Dry - Output Wet - Stereo.
And by experimenting with Canyon you will notice that you have all the prerequisites to create that guitar sound you have always sought.
Personally, by experimenting with this library, I can confirm that I immediately found myself at ease as the graphic intuitiveness favored the understanding of the contents. Also, the sound is particularly rich, full-bodied and really feels like a real guitar, it's not an overly tinny and artifact sound, but it's round and pleasant. Therefore, it would be really worth buying it to enrich and add a new and versatile tool to Kontakt.
In conclusion ...
Cinematic Texture Guitars will be your perfect collection of historical and unique guitars and amplifiers, not only able to satisfy your creativity through the wide range of sounds and effects, but also to make your work simple, light and immediate. your art.
Useful Information
Official Website: www.bigfishaudio.com
Price: KLI Format $ 129,5 (Download)
Price: Multi Format $ 129,5 (Download)
Price: RMX $ 129,5 (Download)
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