

The Ethnic section includes a great selection of usually very rare multisamples like Banjo, Mandolin, Celtic guitar, Lute, Sitar (and electric Sitar), Baglamas, Bozouki, Jubus, Oud, Lute from Morocco, Saz and Tzouras. And it’s not all: volume two include many more sounds like some superb Harp presets and many “ethnic” sounds. Then a wide range of electric bass is covered, both fretted and fretless, including all the classic instruments like Jazz Bass, and many others, covering all current styles. The bass section starts with an awesome selection of Double Basses. The electric section then provides the Gibson 335, Jazz guitars, muted playing style guitars, etc. The legendary Gibson Les Paul™ is next, sampled through several different amps. Distorted Strat’ is included too, captured with the ubiquitous SM57. Are especially handy if you own an amp modeling effect plug-in. The electric guitar section packs several clean Strat’ sounds through D.I. Many Dobro and Bottleneck presets add their unique color to the acoustic section.

Moving on to steel strings, a 12 strings and several 6 strings acoustics (from prestigious makers like Guild™, Martin™, Gerome and Maruha) are featured.

It includes a Nylon guitar custom-made by acclaimed maker Gerome, and a wonderful “spanish-style” nylon guitar. Plugsound volume 2 - Fretted Instruments: Kicks off with an acoustic guitar section. Why create a 200 MB Piano if you can achieve a better sound with 96 MB? In return, this extra work allowed the team to include more sounds in the 650 MB sample library, and make sure that this collection is as complete as it can ever be. Enter Plugsound: the sound design team worked really hard and went out of their way to ensure that all instruments use the amount of RAM they need, and no more. Most users don’t have that much RAM to devote to their sounds, or don’t want to wait endlessly for a sequence to load. Keyboard instruments may seem simple to reproduce in a library, but that’s only true when you let presets take hundreds of megabytes, and it doesn’t automatically make the sounds better. Synth sounds can be found on volume 5 of Plugsound. Finally, an extensive Harpsichord section benefits from the new “Release Trigger” feature that allows realistic recreation of this difficult instrument. Featured traditional keyboard instruments include Church Organs, Accordion, Celesta, Vibraphone, Music box & Xylophone. A wealth of Clavinets, Electric Organs and Synth-based keyboard sounds complete the modern part of the collection. It also featured a best-of selection of famous “suitcase-style” electric pianos from the most respected manufacturers of these bygone instruments. Plugsound volume 1 - Keyboard Collection: Features acoustic Pianos in classical, jazz and pop styles, and alternative sounds like Honky-Tonk and Detuned.
