Unlike the usual high-end KONTAKT guitar sample libraries and guitar VSTs, Evolution does not require keyboardists to have a basic knowledge of how to play guitar to achieve authentic results. Instead, it leverages your existing keyboard skills, translating those techniques for guitar, much like a skilled translator translates one language into another. For example, chord inversions are automatically analyzed, and the appropriate chord sound for guitar is instantly determined.
The chord variations for guitar playing are limited only by your imagination – be it chords, triads, augmented chords, diminished chords, suspended fourths, seventh chords, ninth chords, elevenths, “Hendrix chords” – it’s all possible.
Evolution uses complex scripts instead of memorizing dozens of key switches, and contains extensive articulations, from palm mutes to plucked harmonics, accurately simulating real guitar performance. It features detail and nuance that bring guitar performances to life. Its signature string resonation engine creates a sense of organic realism unmatched by other guitar sample libraries or VSTs.
What’s more, Evolution doesn’t require you to compromise your playing or sequencing workflow to adapt to its way of working – instead, it uses a handy mapping system so that sample library mapping can be quickly and easily adjusted to suit your personal preferences.
Evolution covers rhythm and lead guitar playing – which includes the powerful and advanced, yet easy-to-use chord strumming functionality of Orange Tree Samples. The strumming system automates the labor-intensive task of sequencing realistic rhythm guitar parts, including an intelligent chord detection engine that instantly translates chords on the keyboard into guitar voices on the fretboard. Popular studio tricks like double tracking (as well as triple and quadruple tracking) are accomplished with the turn of a knob.
Want to detune or capo your guitar? It’s easy to do, and switching to alternate tunings not only affects the instrument’s range, but also changes the tone of individual strings. To provide maximum versatility, Evolution was dry-recorded and includes a selection of virtual pedal effects and a wide range of guitar cabinet impulses, all built directly into the sample library.
So users can choose their favorite amp simulation and effects to get exactly the sound they want, from pop to rock, funk, hip-hop and jazz right out of the box.
- Built-in effects with virtual stompboxes and amp/cabinet modeling
- Individually sampled strings controlled by string/fret selectors with performance modeling
- Strum keys plus strumming patterns
- Pickup positions: bridge, bridge and neck, neck
- Instant 2x, 3x and 4x tracking
- Alternate tunings and capo
- Articulations such as palm mute, squeals, tapping, strumming and more
- Legato articulations including slides
- 4 circular repeats for realistic note playback
- 3GB of samples (compressed to 1.6GB using the lossless NCW audio format)
- NKS support
Added:
- Ability to lock individual settings and articulations, allowing you to switch snapshot presets without overwriting specific settings and mapped articulations. Old Lock Mapping setting removed. If this setting was used in existing projects, the new version will automatically switch them to use the individual locking options
- New Performance Effect Keys setting lets you control the range of keys mapped to performance effects
- Tooltips
Improved:
- Efficiency of the fretboard display
- Interval names in the pitch bend and legato range settings have been replaced with semitones
- Capo position now modulates the chord sound
- Open string legato mode now allows not only pull-offs to open strings, but also hammer-ons from open strings to higher notes on the fretboard
Fixed:
- A bug with dynamic memory when canceling a sustain articulation (try using one of the MIDI articulations, such as slide)
- A bug affecting the Velocity Slide articulation in combination with the sustain pedal pressed
