Vir2 Instruments is an international team of sound designers, musicians, and programmers who specialize in creating the world's most advanced virtual instrument libraries. Vir2 is producing the instruments that shape the sound of modern music. Read more...
We're thrilled to announce our latest release: Violence, a collection of instruments focusing on extremely unusual textures, manglings, distortions, and perspectives on the solo violin. Violence will be shipping on July 26! To find out more, visit the Violence page and have a listen to the audio demos.
By popular demand, we've been hard at work creating a series of tutorial videos to help you get up and running with Electri6ity. We designed Electri6ity to be easy to use right from the get go, but there's incredible depth available via its settings, keyswitches, and articulations. These videos are designed to spotlight each of these areas, and we hope you get a lot out of them! Click the Read More link to see them...
'...Incredible. Great library! Next on shopping list...' synesthesia on KVR
'...I thought sample-based virtual guitar would suck, but boy was I wrong!!!...' benjamind on KVR
'...I can't play keyboard quite that well but it's pretty amazing what this VI can do on the fly. Once I have the spare cash I will be all over electri6ity for sure. Nicely done vir2....' dmichaelsmusic on KVR
'...This is great, I honestly never thought something of this caliber could be achieved in the range of Guitar Synth's / VST's. It sounds real. I can't wait until it comes out....' kirbyfighter12 on KVR
If you're wondering what all that buzz is about, it's about Electri6ity, our brand new virtual electric guitar instrument. I'm Benjamin, one of the developers of Electri6ity and today I want to give you some insight into the development of this massive guitar library. I also want to tell you what makes it so special.
We're not finished with Electri6ity, our new flagship electric guitar product. We've just released a free downloadable update, version 1.1, which adds a handful of new features such as guitar body simulation, slide noise triggering, more timbre change options, and more. We also decreased overall CPU usage and made a good number of improvements over the whole library. Finally, a few users were having problems loading one guitar after another on specific machines, and that bug has now been fixed. Full update notes are available inside the 1.1 update, which is available on our Downloads page.
By popular demand, we also wrote a Realism Guide containing some tips and tricks to help you render the most authentically real electric guitar parts possible. This is also available on our Downloads page and is included in the 1.1 update.
Maybe we should call version 1.1 "version eleven" instead...
Virtuoso keyboardist and film composer Richard Friedman stopped by our studios last week to have a romp through Electri6ity, our upcoming electric guitar virtual instrument. Taste and see that the shred is good...
