Orange Tree Samples releases "Evolution Banshee" for Kontakt Player

Orange Tree Samples has released Evolution Banshee, a 8-string metal guitar sample library powered by Native Instruments' Kontakt Player.

Evolution Banshee's extended range could make it ideal for metal and heavy rock, since its naturally-tuned range goes all the way down to a low F#--and even lower if alternate tunings are used. The stock pickups in the guitar were replaced with high-end hand-wound pickups made in the UK, which provide a crisp and balanced tone. The bridge and neck pickup signals were recorded on separate channels, allowing a user to blend between them.

With 17 GB of sample content, Evolution Banshee is designed to cover everything a user might need from rhythm tracks to shredding guitar leads. Its articulations include palm mutes, squeals, tapping, and slides as well as special effects like string scrapes and chugs.

Evolution Banshee comes with its own guitar effects engine, containing a wide assortment of modeled guitar pedals, rack effects, and guitar amps/cabs. These effects are built directly into the sample library.

Finally, Evolution Banshee includes a multitude of factory presets, providing the user with an assortment of ambient, clean, crunchy, and distorted guitar tones.

Key features:

• Over 15,000 samples, recorded in 24-bit, 48kHz.
• Articulations such as sustains, half palm mutes, full palm mutes, mutes, three types of squeals, tapping, natural harmonics, plus special effects such as chugs, scratches, string slaps, and others.
• Legato samples for slides, hammer-ons, and pull-offs.
• Built-in strum pattern editor for authentic guitar strumming.
• Adjustable pick position using our proprietary physical modeling technology.
• Multitracking up to quadruple tracking.

Price: $179. There is an introductory price of $139 until August 12th, 2015. Evolution Banshee is powered by the free Kontakt Player.

Video Demonstration: www.YouTube.com/watch?v=lAxDggEkzrI

Audio Demos:

Demo #1: Calamitous (Sean Godsey) .

Demo #2: Symphomatic Maneuver (Hagai Davidoff) .

Demo #3: Blue Lotus

Demo #4: Metal Mouth

Demo #5: Barcelona (Solonoid Studio) .