Velvet Guitars: Warm Guitar Instrument for Kontakt by e-instruments

The instrument draws on five guitars, including a semi-hollow icon, a baritone, a ’60s-style offset with a floating tremolo, a semi-hollow jazz-style guitar and a magnetically picked-up acoustic. Two vintage amps, often described as the American clean and the British chime, shape the tone, and both can be chosen or blended.

The spring reverb is recorded rather than modeled. Each sample was captured four times through two amps with dry and wet options, which the developer says gives the reverb a lively, evolving character.

Articulations include plucks, mutes, dead notes, chords, swells, feedback, harmonics, slides, ebow and violin bow, along with unusual sources such as a toothbrush-played guitar and lo-fi tape recordings. The mod wheel switches or blends between articulations, which keeps performance in one controller lane.

Chord-based presets let you choose major or minor voicings. Tremolo includes two vintage amp models, three pedal-inspired styles and sync-to-host, so rhythmic modulation can lock to your project tempo. An FX chain of guitarist-designed presets is controlled through macros.