Solo Guitaret - for Kontakt - by Nine Volt Audio

Introduced in 1963 and discontinued only two years later, the Guitaret was an invention of Ernst Zacharias, the mind behind other Hohner instruments like the Clavinet, Cembalet and Pianet.

Marketed as an easy-to-play instrument to mimic guitar or banjo, the actual sound sits somewhere between an electric kalimba and electric piano.

The Guitaret is held like a guitar, with the player holding the "neck" or handle to engage the sustain/dampening mechanism. The other hand is used to pluck the 36 metal keys, which barely protrude out of the instrument's body. The vibration of the plucked keys is then captured by a series of internal pick-ups.

In recent years, the Guitaret has been used on a number of new recordings, perhaps most notably on the soundtrack for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

For Solo Guitaret, we have sampled the instrument at five different velocity layers, with three groups of round robin. A custom interface allows for control over a variety of sound sculpting tools, as well as access to load and save custom presets within a single patch.

Take the opportunity to add this rare and unusual instrument to your sample collection today.

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[vocalworld]

It sounds like an original guitaret! Good work! :)

[ICManygrins]

It costs big bucks to pay Native Instruments to process the files to work in the player version. Do you really expect them to not only give you their time, resources and love for free, but to also spend money out of their pocket so you don't have to spend any of your money on Kontakt? That is similar to a professional panhandler being upset at people who pass by and don't give them any money. :>)

[Joflouside]

True.. but in a way.. ;-)

Shhhht

[MonoThyratron]

Yes it's free ... but employs proprietary Kontakt-format, thus excluding all non-Kontakt users. So, where's the fun? ;-)

[Joflouside]

Fun & Free