Plectra Series 2: Highland Harps

A trio of plucked folk instruments from America and Europe with a light, airy tone and our signature deep sampling!

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$49

$49

115 in stock

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    Authentic and
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    Deep Customization
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    Authentic and
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    Easy-to-Use
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Audio Demos

  1. Irish Breeze Andrew Aversa 0:53
  2. Highland Ride Jimmy Hinson 1:19
  3. Cosmic Motion Andrew Aversa 1:04
  4. A Celtic Tale Eduardo Tarilonte 1:57
  5. Irish Breeze (Naked) Andrew Aversa 0:53
  6. Irish Breeze (Harps Only) Andrew Aversa 0:53

Product Info

Content

Three beautiful instruments

Celtic harp, lap harp, and lyre, all recorded in pristine detail.

Meticuously-sampled for authenticity

Up to 7x round robin variations and 7x dynamic levels.

Multiple articulations per instrument

Besides standard plucks, articulations like ebow, harmonics, bowing, hammers, and glissandos are available depending on the harp.

Special 'designed' patches included

An additional 10 instruments are included, created using extra processing, filters, and sound design.

Percussive articulations

Play unpitched rhythmic parts on the celtic harp and lap harp with dozens of individually-sampled percussion hits and articulations.

Celtic Harp

Features

Easy tone-shaping controls
Adjustable reverb and space
Super streamlined and easy-to-use UI
Extremely fast load times
No keyswitching required

Requirements

1688641251image+4+(1)
2.75GB of disk space

7200 RPM hard drive or solid state drive recommended.

Kontakt 4.2.3+ Full Version

This library is NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player.

Kontakt Requirements - Mac OS

Intel Macs (i5 or higher): macOS 10.14, 10.15, 11 or 12 (latest update).
Apple Silicon Macs (via Rosetta 2 & natively on ARM in Standalone or in hosts that support it): macOS 11 or 12 (latest update)

Kontakt Requirements - Windows

Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10 (latest Service Pack, 32/64-bit). Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU. Graphics hardware support for OpenGL 2.1 or higher. Windows 10 strongly recommended.

Details

Continuing our Plectra Series of plucked, picked and strummed string instruments from around the world comes this collection of traditional folk harps! Featuring the lyre, lap harp, and celtic harp, this KONTAKT 4 sample library evokes images of the Irish countryside, Appalachian splendor, tall tales and a heart mug of mead beside a crackling fire. The intimate, close-miced sound is ideal for traditional, folk, medieval and Renaissance music as well as modern scores in any number of styles.

Highland Harps is the second entry into the Plectra Series of virtual stringed instruments from around the world. With this library, we wanted to capture the warm and rustic tones of the celtic harp, lap harp, and lyre, each of which has a rich tradition extending back hundreds to thousands of years. While the Western concert harp has been sampled in depth, these smaller instruments have previously been overlooked by the sampling world.

Our approach was to record using close mics and a minimum of room ambiance, leaving just the perfect amount of ‘air’ for each note to ring out and breathe. We made sure to extensively record dynamics and round robins, up to 7 layers for some articulations, so the entire range of each instrument could be accurately represented. Playing styles include plucked, harmonics, hammered, bowed, ebowed, percussive slaps and glissandos.

We believe Highland Harps is a breath of fresh air in the world of sampled plucked instruments, and we think you’ll agree!

Interface

A custom scripted interface is provided, allowing easy access to useful controls such as attack and decay, bass, brightness, transposition, octave plucking and humanization, added reverb and spatial width. These controls make it a breeze to customize a patch to your liking for any given project.

Reviews

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Testimonial – Jimmy ‘Big Giant Circles’ Hinson (Black Ops 4, Borderlands 2, Threes)

“Between Shreddage, Super Audio Cart, Juggernaut, and Mega Brass I don’t remember the last time I haven’t used an Impact Soundworks instrument in a track. The attention to detail is astonishing and it’s all so easy to use out of the box, which is a big deal.”