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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 4/5 Stars. Velvet Guitars leans towards cinematic textures by exploring a softer approach to the electric guitar, making it suitable for scoring for picture, ambient music production and sound design.
The latest addition to e-instruments' Fragments series introduces a free virtual instrument that delivers the “evocative warmth and warped textures of half-speed tape recordings”.
Based on the full version of Desolate Guitars, the new Fragments variant centres around the Chime Guitar preset found in its fully featured sibling.
e-instruments and Native Instruments have announced the launch of an update that brings some powerful new features to the four members of the Cremona Quartet Solo series.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. This tape-emulation instrument offers 230 presets pitched at media composers, but may well appeal to anyone working in ambient, lo‑fi, hip‑hop or electronica.
SLOWER presents a variety of instruments that have been captured on four different tape machines, and then sampled while being played back at half speed.
Desolate Guitars captures a selection of classic solid, hollow body and baritone guitars plugged straight into a pair of iconic vintage amps.
The new Pro version of Valves introduces solo patches for each instrument and offers a much wider selection of articulations and pre-recorded phrases.
Valves offers a range of softly-played techniques performed by a five-piece ensemble comprising flugelhorn, French horn, trombone, euphonium, and tuba.
Pure Upright from e-instruments is a multi-sampled upright piano for Apple's iPhone and iPad devices.
