Acou6tics: Acoustic Guitar Kontakt Instrument by Vir2 Instruments

Acou6tics is recorded in Blumlein stereo, which the developer says avoids phasing problems when the mix is summed to mono. The recording process aims to minimize the room sound while keeping the natural tone of each instrument, so the result is a fairly dry but natural-sounding acoustic tone.

The virtual room section lets you adjust microphone distance, and the library includes physically modeled sympathetic resonance. Between 4,000 and 8,000 samples are included per instrument, with uncompressed wave files totaling 4 GB to 8 GB for each.

Every articulation is available on all strings and all frets. The articulation set covers sustains with several plectrum and finger-picking options, palm-muted and hand-muted notes, hammer-ons and pull-offs, slides, releases, chuck strums, harmonics and FX such as pick noises and body knocks.

The strum engine is fully customizable, including keys for transition strums and open-string strums. Chord detection recognizes almost 25,000 chords in real time and maps them to guitar voicings, with most chords available in up to fifty voicings. An automatic string and fretboard positioning system selects the best fit based on speed, timing, notes and polyphony, and you can override it by choosing a string or fret position manually.