Brad Hoyt's Harp Guitar

• 10-string acoustic guitar (5 double-courses).
• 10-string bass harp (5 double-courses).
• 10-string treble harp (5 double-courses).
• Deep multi-sampling of all strings, with up to 12x round robin and up to 7 velocity layers per note
• Plucks, Palm-mutes, Chokes, Slides, Hand Percussion, String Percussion, Glisses and Effects.
• True Legato slides.
• Hammer-ons/Pull-Offs.
• Realtime string selection / finger position control.
• Standard, exotic and custom tuning options.
• Advanced Performance preset for natural lead and rhythm playing and full instrument control.
• Strumulator chord building tools and live auto-strum performance system.
• Strum Pattern building, playback, saving and loading with up to 128 custom groove presets
• Easy Tuned Percussion master preset for full range zither-like playability, with a huge selection of different articulations, voicings, layering and blending options.
• Body and FX Percussion preset for full range percussion playability, with a huge selection of different articulations, voicings, layering and blending options.
• Our main performance controls give you the power to create living, breathing leads and intricate picking patterns.
• Our chord and strum creation tools use real multi-samples instead of static pre-recorded chords. This allow vastly more organic variation. We give you precision real-time strum speed, stroke direction, tightness and dynamic control, with an endless number of possible finger positions.
• Full Effects Rack with chorus, flange, compression, amp and cabinet simulation, distortion, delay and convolution reverb with dozens of room and fx impulses to choose from.
• Bonus: 40 sound-designed atmospheres, soundscapes, ambiences, pads and drones crafted from the natural guitar recordings.

This library is designed for the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.3 or later. Kontakt is an industry-standard advanced virtual instrument software platform. You can view screenshots of this library's custom graphical user interface in the image gallery above. This library is packed with features to provide you a wide range of sound shaping parameter controls, each one totally automation-ready in your host environment or Kontakt's stand-alone mode.

This is a standard Kontakt open-format library, so the free Kontakt Player does not fully support it and can only run it in a limited "demo mode". However, the sample directories are unlocked so you can use them in other wav-compatible software, sampler and synth formats. The special Libraries tab doesn't support this open-format Kontakt library, but you can use the standard File browser tab and import this library into the Kontakt Quickload window for easy loading and navigation.

Brad Hoyt is a composer, pianist and harp guitarist who has recorded with some of the world’s leading guitarists and jazz musicians. His first CD release in 2009 “Together Alone” featured duets with himself and 10 other harp guitarists. His most recent release “Far Away From Everyday” features 30 musicians from around the world including 3x Grammy winner Jeff Coffin, 2x Grammy winner Howard Levy, fingerstyle guitar masters Stephen Bennett, Phil Keaggy, Muriel Anderson, Antoine Dufour, Joscho Stephan and many more.

Brad is looking forward to combining elements from both tangible and virtual harp guitar performances in future compositions. Click Here for more info.