Imagine 187 instruments you have never played before.
Imagine sounds made by plucking, strumming, tapping, scraping, and flicking a range of prepared instruments and found objects.
Imagine stretched strings, glass vessels, water filled cups, breaking twigs, and much more, sounded out and recorded in thousands of full length, high resolution samples.
Imagine these sounds tuned and voiced, under your fingertips, transformed into inspiring keyboard instruments.
Imagine what you could do with such instruments.
Imagine Plectrum.
Geoffrey Gee, pianist, composer, and former Senior Soundware Engineer at Kurzweil Music Systems, announces the release of Plectrum -a virtual instrument library featuring 187 original acoustic instruments, powered by NI Kontakt 2 streaming sample playback engine. Much more than a tool or content library, Plectrum is a creative work of instrument design. Gee created his instruments from sounds made by plucking, strumming, tapping, scraping, and flicking a range of stringed instruments and found objects. Collecting thousands of full length high resolution samples, he voiced and tuned the sounds into full-range, expressive keyboard instruments. Plectrum´s ultra-friendly interface presents these instruments in nine categories based on the sound source: Strummed Strings, Struck Strings, Plucked Strings, and String Harmonics; Glass, Ceramics, Metals, and Found Objects, and Habitats. Each instrument features a round robin playback that creates the organic feel and texture of an acoustic instrument. The instruments in Habitats use this feature to offer ever-evolving sound environments such as August Morning, Afternoon Rain, Forest Stream, and Crickets.
187 original instruments
Round robin playback, with multiple articulations under every key
Nine easy-access categories
Ultra friendly interface–select an instrument and play
Fast instrument loading and selection
High polyphony streaming audio engine, powered by NI Kontakt Player (Kontakt 2 or newer)
Thousands of full length high resolution samples, voiced for making music
Library size 12GB
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