Plectrum V2 comes to you as a 3-DVD set, and contains the Kontakt 2 Player engine along with the 12GB Plectrum sound library. Plectrum V2 is Mac and PC compatible and runs as a standalone application or as a plugin inside your own DAW software.
Installation and registration is simple, thanks to Native Instruments´ comprehensive installer and friendly Service Center registration tool. The amazing sounds of Plectrum rely on the disk streaming capabilities the Kontakt Player engine, so while a fast hard disk is necessary, the CPU load remains low.
If you own the full version of Native Instruments´ Kontakt 3 software, Plectrum instruments can be opened (but not edited) from within the main program. Plectrum V2 customers also receive a 40% discount for full version of Kontakt 3. Go to Native Instruments for details.
Gee created his instruments by plucking, strumming, scraping, and tapping a variety of acoustic instruments and found materials. The recordings and ambience are purely acoustic, and the thousands of samples have been mapped to the keyboard and voiced in a way that allows the player to play naturally and expressively. The resulting instruments are strikingly beautiful and rich with acoustic resonance.
“Plectrum is brilliant in concept and execution, and I recommend it to anyone who needs to be reminded of the truly wonderful things you can do with samplers,” writes Marty Cutler in Electronic Musician. “All the presets have been optimized to sound wonderful,” writes Craig Anderton in Keyboard. Legendary keyboardist and founding member of the Pat Metheny Group Lyle Mays called Plectrum “one of the most exciting products I heard in quite some time... A perfect combination of acoustic nuance and modern technology.”
New customers may buy direct from Vital Arts for $299.
Existing Plectrum users may apply for Crossgrade pricing.
Plectrum V2 Overview:
187 original instruments
45 combination "Multis"
Round robin playback, with multiple articulations under every key
Nine easy access categories
Fast instrument loading and selection
Fully multitimbral, allowing custom split and layer "Multis"
High performance audio engine, powered by Native Instruments Konatkt 2 Player
AU, VST, RTAS, and Standalone
Thousands of full length high resolution samples, voiced for making music
