Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars
With Rosette Mandolin, Impact Soundworks have brought a touch of American folk music to their Rosette engine. Compatible with the free Kontakt Player, the sound of the library is very pleasing. While it doesn’t offer multiple mic options, it is recorded in a neutral context and could easily fit into different mixes. The articulation range is solid, the pitched and unpitched releases and choke options are welcome and the legatos are well done. The harmonics are also very pleasing. I would have liked to have seen more tremolo options (particularly an unmeasured tremolo), though the tremolo provided sounds good and can be sync’ed to tempo (it is recorded at about 150bpm, so you just have to be careful how you use this as at extremes the time stretching is evident). The articulations page allows for quick customisation; I initially found the sound of the release samples...
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