ISW announces Shreddage, next-gen rhythm guitar library

From the halls of Valhalla comes an electric guitar library so powerful, it needs two subtitles! SHREDDAGE: Electric Rhythm Guitar: Rock & Metal is our next-generation rhythm guitar library. It has been designed to provide the most realistic and flexible sound for rock and metal playing, giving the user the ability to recreate nearly any riff.

Unlike many other guitar libraries, Shreddage is extremely focused and took nearly two years to become fully realized. We recorded and re-recorded samples and articulations, analyzing multiple types of playing techniques, classic riffs, guitars, strings, DIs and mapping methods. The result is not only extremely deep and realistic, but intuitive and easy to play.

Features:

• A classic metal guitar run through a pristine, high-end Avalon DI at 24/96, downsampled to 24/44.1
• All multisamples, NO LOOPS
• Tuning all the way down to Bb (the “B” stands for “brutal”)
• CLEAN recordings to amp however you want
• Every crucial articulation for rock and metal rhythms: open sustains, powerchords, palm mutes, fast mutes, powerchord mutes, fast powerchord mutes, powerchord half-mutes, chord stops, pinch squeals, pick scrapes and slides
• A staggering 8x round robin for just about all articulations, on every note – say goodbye to the machine gun effect
• Dead-simple interface with quick mix controls (attack, decay, release, filters, EQ)
• NO convoluted, complex scripted system that takes weeks to learn – just load up patches and play. No need for extensive MIDI CC control, modwheel, aftertouch or keyswitch manipulation

Shreddage will be released February 2010 at the truly metal price of $49 (Kontakt 2 format.) In the meantime, we’ll be working on more demos as well as the product manual which contains full details about all the articulations and mapping.

If you can’t wait for all that, check out these beta demos!

“Deep Impact” (Guitar Rig 4 + Studio Devil amps – almost all other sounds are from other ISW libraries)
“Shreddage Montage” (various demo clips in various soft amps)
“Shred it to the Ground” (Guitar Rig 4 amps) ((apologies to Nickelback))

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