The story
I bought this beautiful Cort acoustic guitar for my son’s birthday, after visiting London’s Denmark Street. This is a small body guitar with lots of character, and I particularly noticed the harmonics sounded very rich and full. So I sampled all the harmonics, and here it is as my first contribution to this amazing Pianobook community!
The MG Steel String Harmonics instrument is sampled with three round robins and three velocity layers, ensuring a very responsive, human feel. You can also adjust the attack time and hold notes to create a nice pad effect. I have also created a unique pan effect (when the Pan FX switch is activated) which changes the pan position of each note played by a random amount – to create an etherial effect, as heard in places in the demo track.
I hope you enjoy the instrument and find it useful.
Mike Georgiades
Composer
Reviews for MG Steel String Harmonics
- Sound
- Character
- Playability
- Inspiration
- GUI
Leave a review to let others know what you thought of the instrument!
So Rich
absolute the best thing ever perfect for anything. this is the sample library that made jesus walk on water
Well, it's really, really that good!
It might have been the best harmonics patch I've played in a while. The sampling is perfect, it's dynamic, it's responsive, it has everything you need, and more! I didn't even know I wanted a pan randomizer, but now I do! You can also make it compeltely dry and add your own effects. Damn this is good. Great job and thank you for your contribution!
Atmosphere and precision
This is an inspiring sample pack, instantly playable and very precise in the sounds it offers. There's a great range of realistic playing sound to be had and enough difference between layers to keep it feeling live. I placed a section of Heirloom strings underneath this library and is sounds fantastic. Thank you very much for your work and generosity in offering this one to us Mike, it is really appreciated.
Passes the Guitarist test
as a guitarist more often that not i don't like guitar instruments made to play melodic things. I lover ambient guitar pads and things like that but I've always found sampled guitars for the purpose of playing melodies very fake sounding. Ive always felt that harmonics instruments sound a-lot more realistic than regular sampled notes, probably because harmonics are kind of "tapped" more similarly to a piano while regular notes are picked with a specific articulation sound. I think this library sounds great. Good amount of dynamics and round robins and the samples themselves sound really realistic and natural. I can't wait to blend these in with some acoustic guitar recordings. Great job.
