Unstrummed

Discover Unstrummed, a one-of-a-kind composer toolkit meticulously crafted to transcend genres, delivering a vibrant, distinctive, and authentically raw sonic experience. Whether it's crafting spine-chilling horror or quirky, offbeat cues, Unstrummed provides a comprehensive range of irreverent sounds.

Crafted predominantly from unprocessed, live recordings of acoustic and electric guitars, banjos, dobros, mandolins, and lap steel, Unstrummed offers an unparalleled sonic palette unmatched by conventional guitar-based sampler instruments. Explore an array of percussive elements, jack noise, slides, plucks, bows, and other captivating nuances, empowering you to effortlessly create impactful hits, tension-building risers, and intricate rhythmic patterns. Unleash your creativity and seamlessly integrate these unique sounds into your own compositions with ease.

Includes 3 different Kontakt instruments & a full set of wav samples (including extra designed sounds):

RHYTHMS

Provides you with a 16 step sequencer where each step can be loaded with a sample from one of 5 categories (and over 500 distinct samples) of sounds: Percussive (taps and clicks), Slides & Bends, Tonal Short Notes, Distortions, and Plucks & Bows. Each step can have volume, panning, length and tuning adjustments, making for infinite possibilities, and direct syncing to various time signatures in your DAW.

• Thousands of unique pattern combinations at the touch of a button
• Patterns readily available and simple to generate
  
• 16 step sequencer with control to change the active number of steps
• Prebuilt pattern menu with many custom patterns ready to give you a jump start
• Unique organic sources
• Randomization options at the instrument level, allowing you to randomize all 16 sources with all categories of sounds or limited to certain combinations of sounds
• Keyboard mapped to use one key to play the pattern automatically and another 16 keys to allow you to play your own pattern manually with the 16 loaded sample steps
• Per-step source selection, randomize, volume, mute and panning controls
• Per-step pitch shifting to allow up to +3/-3 octaves(adjusted in semi-tones)
• Global FX, including distortion, delay (temp-sync optional), and a reverb with optional reverse option for some extra bizarre results
• All sources recorded at 24bit, 48k quality

HITS

Provides you with over 50 unique, designed whoosh effects, all made from live guitar manipulations and over 500 one-shot samples combined in our new 4-layer engine to generate hits and impacts. Play the hit by itself or play any of the whooshes which are programmed to play the hit automatically at the end of the whoosh. Create endless combinations of hits from subtle to absolutely massive.

Our new 4-layer engine adds a special Percussion layer, which lets you select one of 30 different percussive hits as a base for your hit creations, mixing with the 3 layers of guitar sources to give you something truly special.

• Thousands and thousands of unique combinations available via our 4-layer engine, allowing you to create truly unique hits and sounds for your compositions
• Per-layer attack and release controls
• Per-layer high / low pass filter controls
• Per-layer pitch shifting to allow up to +2/-2 octaves(adjusted in semi-tones)
• Per-layer source selection and randomization
• Per-layer solo, mute, volume and panning controls
• Volume, high / low pass filter and pitch shifting +2/-2 octaves (adjusted in semi-tones) for the whoosh layer
• Instrument level randomizer to randomize sources for all 4 layers, giving you instant inspiration and creative freedom
• Keyboard mapped to play the engineered hit on C3 and each whoosh followed by the engineered hit on all other keys from C0 to C6
• Global FX, including saturation, distortion, delay (temp-sync optional), and reverb
• All sources recorded at 24bit, 48k quality 

RISERS

Unstrummed Risers takes our 3-layer engine to new, twisted heights, with various live guitars and manipulated/processed risers, all recorded at 8 bars, 120bpm and set to stretch to your project tempo. Each layer is a hand-crafted riser made from tortured guitars or synths, all heavily manipulated and designed to be weaved together into your own amazing creations. 

A new "length" menu allows you to play the generated riser at 2 bars, 4 bars, or 8 bars, all matching your DAW project tempo.

• Thousands of unique combinations available via our 3-layer engine, allowing you to create truly unique risers for your compositions
• Per-layer attack and release controls
• Per-layer high / low pass filter controls
• Per-layer pitch shifting to allow up to +2/-2 octaves(adjusted in semi-tones)
• Per-layer source selection and randomization
• Per-layer solo, mute, volume and panning controls
• Instrument level randomizer to randomize sources for all 3 layers, giving you instant inspiration and creative freedom
• Keyboard mapped to play the engineered riser on C3 and pitch stretched across the octave up to C4
• Global FX, including saturation, distortion, delay (temp-sync optional), and reverb
• Selector to set riser length to 2, 4, or 8 bars
• All sources recorded at 24bit, 48k quality 

WAV FILES INCLUDED

Included in the Samples folder you will find a folder named 'FMG Unstrummed 24bit 48k Wavs'. If you prefer working with wav files, you will find an amazing amount of freedom here. That said, we suggest using the GUIs to randomize and create your basic starter sound. Then it is easy to manipulate and export to audio for further processing. Within this folder you will find 3 sub-folders with the following wav files:

• Designed Sounds: This folder contains dozens of sounds (hits, risers, rhythms and whoosh hits) all created by Unstrummed and then taken through more processing to be trailer-ready. 
• Preset Exports: This folder contains a wav file export of each of the Riser and Hit presets found in the GUIs. If you want a quick start to adding additional processing to a preset you like, just grab these and jump in.
• Raw Sounds: In this folder you will find the individual samples used in the instruments, including the individual riser, percussion and whoosh sources. 
• NOTE: After install, you will find a folder named FMG Unstrummed 24bit 48k Wavswith all of these files. This folder will be in the Samples folder wherever you installed the instrument.

Kontakt 6.7.1 required (Full version or Free Player)

Requires only 3.5 GB Disk Space

Downloaded via Native Access. Made for the FREE Kontakt Player with NKS Support

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