Karoryfer Samples has released Surfkiss, an electric guitar sample library with a very wide range of techniques sampled, including preparations with various objects attached to the strings.
Key features:
- Up to four velocity layers.
- Two to four round robins.
- Ordinary picking, picking near the bridge, hammer-ons and pull-offs.
- Three types of muting: ghost notes, palm muting, palm-muted ghost notes, and ghost notes picked near the bridge.
- Two types of harmonics.
- Three types of slides.
- Fingering noises.
- Picking behind the bridge.
- Tremolo mode for ordinary picking, picking near the bridge, and behind the bridge.
- Pick stabs with six stab locations, body punches, spoon rubs and spoon bounces, using a bottle as a pick.
- Prepared guitar techniques: binder clip, clothespin, and paper in two different locations.
- Three different types of vibrato, plus humanization.
- Two types of release noises.
- Feedback.
- Doubletracking mode.
- Random technique patches.
- Separate pad instrument with additional sympathetic resonance samples.
- Over 7300 samples adding up to 3.7 GB of 24-bit, 44.1 kHz WAV files.
Intro Price: $9 until November 25, 2023 (Reg. $19).
Requires the free Plogue Sforzando sampler, which works on 64-bit Windows and Mac systems, 4 GB RAM, and an SSD.