This tab provides visual feedback of how Electri6ity's AI is selecting strings and fret position, as well as indicating upstrokes and downstrokes. The method you use will depend entirely on personal taste, but this feature alone injects so much life into the sound as you freely vary the amount of damping pressure upon the strings as you play. One notable aspect of Electri6ity that contributes greatly towards its realism is the use of Kontakt 4's Velocity Morphing (VMT) and Articulation Morphing (AMT) technology. Many users, however, will probably be more than happy to play Electri6ity using the default settings. Since they are hidden amongst the drop‑down menus (and hence not immediately accessible during performance), all parameters are assigned MIDI controllers, so if you wish to alter the strumming angle, sympathetic resonance, fret position, pick position or number of strings being strummed, for example, you can do so using a hardware controller in real time (or using sequencer automation), without recourse to the menus or mouse.
The sheer number of variable parameters in the Settings tab provide a clue to the complexity of the KSP scripting (I lost count at around 170). It would be fascinating to examine the KSP scripting required to do what Electri6ity does, but you can't, as Vir2 have (probably very wisely) locked out any of Kontakt's normal editing functions. This is where the Settings tab comes into play. Electri6ity ships on four DVDs containing an installer for the library and, if you need it, a separate one containing the latest version of the Kontakt Player.
'Pretty much any parameter you can think of can be manipulated via control changes or key switching' So far, so good, but does this impressive theory equate to a similar level of playability? Install and first impressions Well, before we get to that, let's get the essentials out of the way. Containing over 24,000 24-bit samples taken from eight of the best known electric guitars, this library uses Kontakt 4 as its playback engine and, beyond the raw sample data, it utilises a wealth of scripting information to attempt to provide a complete solution for studio based non-guitarists or indeed for guitarists who don't happen to have several thousand pounds worth of high quality axes lying around. Vir2 Instruments Electri6ity Vir2 is developing a reputation for its quality virtual instruments and the latest of these is the ambitious virtual guitar library Electri6ity, which has been three years in development. Electri6ity's built-in effects are no mere cheap add-on.