Vital Arts Plectrum

Vital Arts Plectrum

•     Imagine 187 instruments you have never played before.
•     Imagine sounds made by plucking, strumming, tapping, scraping, and flicking a range of prepared instruments and found objects.
•     Imagine stretched strings, glass vessels, water filled cups, breaking twigs, and much more, sounded out and recorded in thousands of full length, high resolution samples.
•     Imagine these sounds tuned and voiced, under your fingertips, transformed into inspiring keyboard instruments.
•     Imagine what you could do with such instruments.
•     Imagine Plectrum.

Geoffrey Gee, pianist, composer, and former Senior Soundware Engineer at Kurzweil Music Systems, announces the release of Plectrum -a virtual instrument library featuring 187 original acoustic instruments, powered by NI Kontakt 2 streaming sample playback engine. Much more than a tool or content library, Plectrum is a creative work of instrument design. Gee created his instruments from sounds made by plucking, strumming, tapping, scraping, and flicking a range of stringed instruments and found objects. Collecting thousands of full length high resolution samples, he voiced and tuned the sounds into full-range, expressive keyboard instruments. Plectrum´s ultra-friendly interface presents these instruments in nine categories based on the sound source: Strummed Strings, Struck Strings, Plucked Strings, and String Harmonics; Glass, Ceramics, Metals, and Found Objects, and Habitats. Each instrument features a round robin playback that creates the organic feel and texture of an acoustic instrument. The instruments in Habitats use this feature to offer ever-evolving sound environments such as August Morning, Afternoon Rain, Forest Stream, and Crickets.

•     187 original instruments
•     Round robin playback, with multiple articulations under every key
•     Nine easy-access categories
•     Ultra friendly interface–select an instrument and play
•     Fast instrument loading and selection
•     High polyphony streaming audio engine, powered by NI Kontakt Player (Kontakt 2 or newer)
•     Thousands of full length high resolution samples, voiced for making music
•     Library size 12GB
•     For updates from V1 (GVI) please contact www.vitalartsmedia.com directly

Requirements
NI Kontakt Player 2 is included in this product!

Minimum:

•     Windows XP/ Vista, Pentium 4/ Athlon, Single 2,8 GHz, Dual Core CPU above 1.6 GHz per core
•     Mac OSX 10.4, G5 1 GHz or Intel Core Duo1,66, 1 GB Ram

Optimal:

•     Windows XP/ Vista, Pentium 4/ Athlon, Quad Core CPU above 1.8 GHz per core
•     Mac OSX 10.4, any Intel Mac G5, 2GB Ram

Free hard drive space - depending on the regarding library content.
You can use this library with the free Kontakt Player 4 or higher which is compatible to all actual operating systems and interfaces on Mac & PC

Product activation:
An internet connection on any computer is required to authorize / activate the product (Challenge/Response).

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