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Imagine a brilliant guitarist playing absolutely fluid legato solos and awesome power chord grooves on a world-class guitar: You can hear it from various guitar legends – but could you expect that level of performance from a sampled guitar?
OVERDRIVE makes it possible by means of the revolutionary Legato Performances, one of the most intriguing outcomes of Vienna Symphonic Library’s years of sampling experience. Create your own authentic and unique riffs, exploit the limits of technical feasibility, and get a completely real tube sound performance for the first time ever!
OVERDRIVE contains about 6 gigabytes of samples, including Vienna's unique Performance Elements, featuring a seven-string distorted guitar. Along with various short and sustained notes, power chords, slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs, picked notes, and more, you get loads of effect samples like octave runs, feedbacks, scratches, and e-bowed notes – for a smooth, fat sound and unbelievably realistic performances! Incidentally, repetitions and sustains start at B0 on the lower end, extending the range of a standard guitar down a 4th!
The state-of-the-art gear used to make Overdrive was hand selected to provide the perfect total distortion sound, including a fantastic 7-string solid-body guitar, and classic amplifiers and cabinets, mic’d and recorded in Vienna’s Silent Stage.
Equipment
Steve Vai signature, 7 stringsBrunetti XL II R-EVO
Marshall 1960 TV monitors, 4x12
Ernie Ball 9 – 52 strings
ARTICULATION GROUP | STANDARD LIBRARY | EXTENDED LIBRARY |
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01 SHORT + LONG NOTES | Staccato short soft, medium, hard Sustained with and without vibrato Sub-bass sustained | Staccato normal soft, medium, hard Portato short Portato long with and without vibrato Sustained with whammy bar (2 variations) |
02 HARMONICS | Artificial harmonics, 5th and octave Natural harmonics | |
03 TRILLS + PHRASES | Tremolo Trills, minor 2nd to major 3rd Grace noise, normal and with whammy bar, base note and octave | |
04 POWER CHORDS | Power chords, 4th and 5th Power chords, major and minor | |
05 FX | Scratches on E and B string | Feedback effects, soft and hard Bowed Scratches with whammy bar Scratch effects |
10 PERF INTERVAL | Legato normal and with vibrato Hammer-ons and pull-offs | Legato with whammy bar (2 variations) Marcato, normal and with vibrato Bends |
11 PERF REPETITION | Staccato, normal and muted (2 variations each) Power chords, 4th and 5th | Staccato dynamics, normal (2 variations) Power chords dynamics, 4th and 5th Sub-bass repetitions |
12 FAST REPETITION | Staccato, 140 to 160, 180, 200, and 220 BPM, normal and dynamics Effects, 140 to 160, 180, and 200 BPM | |
13 SCALE RUNS | Octave runs, legato, major and minor harmonic, C to B scale |
System Requirements
PC Windows 7 (latest Service Pack, 32/64-bit), Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2Mac OS X 10.8 (latest update), Intel Core 2 Duo
2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
vienna key (Vienna Symphonic Library USB protection device) or other USB eLicenser (e.g., from Steinberg or Arturia)
2.5 GB free hard drive space
for the Standard Library, 2.5 GB for the Full Library
Other configurations may work but are not actively supported.
*Extended Requires Full
*Full= Standard+Extended
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