by Soundiron
Brad Hoyt’s Harp Guitar features a custom 30-string acoustic harp guitar.
It captures the classical-modern hybrid sound perfectly with deep multi-sampling of all strings, including plucks, palm-mutes, chokes, slides, and more.
The GUI allows for seamless sound-design.
Please note: FULL retail version of Kontakt 5.3.1 or later is required. NOT for Kontakt Player.
$59.40 $99.00
This library is a powerful completely multi-sample based full range 30-string acoustic harp guitar library.
It offers truly nuanced single-note lead line playing, chord creation, rhythm building, gliss and strum performance, all with total real-time control and automation support.
We sampled plucks, palm mutes, chokes, slides, glisses, scrapes, guitar body percussion and tons of other effects to fully capture every nuance of this exquisite instrument, with deep round-robin and velocity layering and total attention to detail.
It was recorded up close and dry, in wide stereo through a matched pair of large studio Neumann microphones and Sound Devices preamps for maximum tone, fidelity and clarity.
This also gives you the power to shape the sound to work in any arrangement and mix.
We sampled a custom-designed harp guitar commissioned by classical guitarist Brad Hoyt.
This unique instrument, titled the “Arpa Viola Caipira”, is the result of a four year design and construction process with master luthier Stephen Sedgwick from the U.K, based on Brad’s concept drawings.
With a massive and lush tone, wide key range, rich bass and pristine highs, it takes the entire concept of an acoustic guitar to new frontiers.
This uniquely detailed Harp Guitar library gives you deep round-robin variation, responsive dynamic layering, world-class programming, true legato, auto-strumming, chord-building, adaptive arpeggiation, custom tuning and tons of other deep features.
This library is designed for the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.3.1 or later.
Kontakt is an industry-standard advanced virtual instrument software platform.
Check out screenshots of our custom graphical user interface for Kontakt in the image gallery above.
They provide a wide range of sound shaping parameter controls, each one totally automation-ready in your host environment or Kontakt’s stand-alone mode.
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This is a standard Kontakt open-format library, so the free Kontakt Player does not fully support it and can only run it in a limited “demo mode”.
However, the sample directories are unlocked so you can use them in other wav-compatible software, sampler and synth formats.
The special Libraries tab doesn’t support this open-format Kontakt library, but you can use the standard File browser tab, or import this library into the Kontakt database and Quickload tools for easy navigation, loading and organization.
Brad Hoyt is a composer, pianist and harp guitarist who has recorded with some of the world’s leading guitarists and jazz musicians.
His first CD release in 2009 “Together Alone” featured duets with himself and 10 other harp guitarists.
His most recent release “Far Away From Everyday” features 30 musicians from around the world including 3x Grammy winner Jeff Coffin, 2x Grammy winner Howard Levy, fingerstyle guitar masters Stephen Bennett, Phil Keaggy, Muriel Anderson, Antoine Dufour, Joscho Stephan and many more.
Brad is looking forward to combining elements from both tangible and virtual harp guitar performances in future compositions.
