A Versatile Ambient Cinematic Guitar Pad Instrument For Kontakt!
“Baritone Guitar Washes” is a versatile Kontakt instrument based on sampled recordings of a custom-made hand-built baritone electric guitar with an aluminium neck by NUDE Guitars.
The deep resonance and incredible sustain of the instrument make it perfectly suited to designing long pads and other ambient sounds.
“Baritone Guitar Washes” is based on Riot Audio‘s proprietary Kontakt engine (WASHES) that incorporates three layers of sound – Body, Grit and Air, each with a specific function and sound characteristics.
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Create Completely Unique Rich, Organic Evolving Textures With Ease!
“Baritone Guitar Washes” is a two-page Kontakt instrument designed as a powerful tool for detailed sound creation.
Body Layer
The Body layer contains the core guitar samples, in various pickup positions (Neck, Mid, Bridge) and playing styles (Harmonics, Straight, Ebow). These samples are looped/layered to create “swells” with close to infinite release times.
It also includes several instances of “pre-washed” samples, swell sounds that were recorded using custom delay and reverb settings on a Kemper Profiling Amp.
Sample start times, attack and release are highly customizable, allowing for anything from short, dry naturalistic pluck sounds as well as organ-like stab sounds (without the initial attack of the guitar pluck) via 10s risers that end abruptly to classic slow-attack and slow-release pad sounds.
Grit Layer
The Grit layer serves to add a distorted, dissonant, scratchy or bowed flavour. This can either be dialed in low in the mix for a sprinkling of darkness and texture, or dialed up to be a featured element.
Air Layer
The Air layer contains a few different instances of moving air (a household hoover, air blown across an Irish Low Flute) for some high-frequency/breath-like sizzle. This layer can be added to produce organ-type sounds (think Hammond or Wurlitzer) and hints of choir.
Morphing
All three layers can be morphed by applying several target sounds (usually combinations of sounds from other layers). There are controls for direction, speed and strength of this morphing effect, allowing for maximum soundshaping capabilities.
There are also detailed FX controls as well as an “EDGE” control mapped to the mod wheel by default for some added saturation and spectral shaping to bring out extra dirt and presence.
The resulting palette of possible sounds is unique in its breadth, whilst still retaining the DNA of the original sound sources. Whether you’re looking for icy, thin trails, warm, sparkly harmony pads, or edgy, scratchy atonal textures, BARITONE GUITAR WASHES is guaranteed to have something for you.
The Recording Session
The guitar session with Eraldo Bernocchi (Sigillum S, Harold Budd, Bill Laswell) was tracked using an ultra-quiet Profiler Amp from German high-end manufacturer Kemper Amps owned by Eraldo himself.
Gear breakdown:
- Custom hand-made NUDE Baritone Electric 6-string guitar with aluminium neck
- Kemper Profiler Amplifier
- D’Addario strings gauges .13-.62
- Cello Bow and Ebow
- Universal Audio A/D converters
- Blackstar Tube Amplifier for reamping stage
Features
- One compact Kontakt instrument
- Three layers – Body, Grit and Air
- 60 presets (snapshots) in total – 30 pads & 30 plucks
- Lexicon Reverb Modelling
- Based on Riot Audio’s proprietary WASHES engine
- Uses Kontakt’s AET Filter technology to morph and blend disparate sound sources
- Total size of sampled content: 0.2 GB
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So What Exactly Can I Do With “Baritone Guitar Washes”?
Recorded with an aluminium neck baritone electric guitar custom-made for legendary Italian ambient composer Eraldo Bernocchi, “Baritone Guitar Washes” is a cinematic pad instrument that lends itself well to many types of music production including:
- Cinematic Underscore
- Ambient Music
- Otherworldly Textures
- New Age Music
- Sound Design
The uniquely versatile WASHES sound design engine creates beautiful ambient swells, pads and pluck & stab sounds with ease!
Note: Requires the FULL Retail version of Kontakt 5.8 or above (NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player).
Normally €66 – get it at 71% off before it’s gone!
- 71% off the normal price (normally €66)!
- A Versatile Ambient Cinematic Guitar Pad Instrument For Kontakt!
- One compact Kontakt instrument
- Three layers – Body, Grit and Air
- 60 presets (snapshots) in total – 30 pads & 30 plucks
- Lexicon Reverb Modelling
- Based on Riot Audio’s proprietary WASHES engine
- Uses Kontakt’s AET Filter technology to morph and blend disparate sound sources
- Total size of sampled content: 0.2 GB
- Note: Requires the FULL Retail version of Kontakt 5.8 or above (NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player)
- Perfect for Cinematic Underscore, Ambient Music, Otherworldly Textures, New Age Music and more!
John – :
great sounds , very playable…. visionary … great work guys! great addition to any sound library
Peter – :
There are countless virtual guitar instruments out there that label themselves “cinematic,” a term that doesn’t do much for me at this point. Whatever this one is, “cinematic” or otherwise, it produces smooth, pleasant, textured, versatile sounds that I use to complement both scores and songs. I love it. Well done, Riot Audio.
Chris – :
This is amazing – right up my alley. There are so many libraries out there that claim to be in this space but most do not inspire me to make actual music – this one does. Immediately. Love it.
Diego – :
Beautiful sustained and long textures. Easy-to-use interface. Good snapshots, but the feedback in the samples and delay is usually set to be infinite which I found unhelpful. But a little editing will suffice. A bit more samples and freedom to select them would also be great. Overall, worth it, specially if you get a good offer.
francois – :
Great sounding library with pads and plucks for various atmospheres. Perfect for making ambient or slow cinematic scoring. Baritone guitar washes nicely pairs with Riot Audio’s Bowed Glass Clouds giving you an amazing ethereal sound. On top, the guys at Riot Audio added a good collection of snapshots to get in the right atmosphere quickly.
Lloyd – :
This product is awesome. The pluck presets are amazing and I’m very surprised that they didn’t feature the pluck presets on videos or audio samples on this deal page because I almost convinced myself I could pass on this offer. But I found a couple preset walkthroughs on YouTube and was really impressed by a number of the pluck presets. They are really quite interesting and useful and will provide endless ways to build up interesting tracks. Great work!
Chris – :
This is a really sweet little library. I love the instruments Riot Audio makes. I have their Bowed Glass Clouds, and this will complement that quite well. If you need that ambient and cinematic feel, and want something a little different than what else is out there, then you should at least check this out. The sounds have a fullness and richness to them. Definitely look into getting this!
Jean – :
Great sound, easy to use
Sheldon – :
I have always been a fan of the sounds designed by Riot Audio. “Baritone Guitar Washes” is no exception. The sounds of this library are beautiful and dreamy.