Home » Library » Vir2 Instruments – Mojo Horn Section (KONTAKT) Vir2 Instruments – Mojo Horn Section (KONTAKT) By Admin July 5, 2016. * Individual articulation instruments Engine * Powered by Kontakt * Standalone, VST, AU, and RTAS operation * Mac and PC compatible.

Don't let Vir2's inexplicable '6' put you off: their new virtual guitar instrument is quite special. Electri6ity's default display, showing 14 key parameters affecting the tone and behaviour of the guitar. Electri6ity is the latest in performance‑oriented virtual guitar instruments, and Vir2's take on the concept offers almost manic levels of detail to satisfy even the most chronically obsessive would‑be plank thrasher. Electri6ity is based around a 28GB core library, hosted by NI's popular Kontakt 4 Player, and so works with Macs and PCs.

Tens of thousands of samples are involved, covering many articulations and playing techniques. Despite streaming samples from hard disk, Electri6ity demands a significant amount of RAM: one Electri6ity instrument with all articulations loaded consumes in the region of 700MB. Electri6ity offers highly detailed recreations of not just one, but eight classic electric guitars, a summary of which can be found in the 'About The Guitars' box. Over 24,000 24‑bit samples were taken of each guitar — clearly a labour of love for Vir2's programmers! The library spans four DVDs, and is supplied with the free Kontakt 4 Player. If you already own the full version of Kontakt 4, installation of the Player is not required. Permanent activation of the library is via the usual Native Instruments Service Center (sic) application.

Installation turned out to be a lengthy process, no doubt due to the sheer number of samples involved — in my case it took six hours! An ideal opportunity to watch the DVD boxed set of Brideshead Revisited, then. Electri6ity's library is very simply organised. The Instruments folder contains two sub‑folders: DI and Amped. Within each of these are eight.NKI patches — one for each guitar. These patches are the fully detailed instruments, comprising all articulations.

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Should you not need this highest level of detail, two further sub‑folders provide 'lite' versions of each guitar, offering sustain and muted, or sustain articulations only. The Amped folder is identical in content to the DI folder, the difference being that the Amped versions make use of Kontakt's own multi‑effects, amp and cabinet simulations.

Owners of Guitar Rig or any comparable guitar‑amp simulator plug‑in will probably want to ignore the Amped folder and concentrate on the DI patches (with all due deference to NI's effects algorithms, of course!). The Multis folder content echoes the Instruments folder, but offers ready‑made 'double‑tracked' versions of each guitar. These are constructed using two instances of the same guitar patch, each one using an alternate set of samples to avoid phasing problems, yet still only occupying the same RAM footprint as a single patch. Vir2 make much of what they call 'Artificial Intelligence', which works behind the scenes of Electri6ity and is all the product of some pretty intense KSP scripting. The AI takes care of many aspects of the sound automatically — chord detection, fret position, upstrokes and downstrokes, string selection, release noises and so on — and makes 'informed' decisions about these based on your playing. Speed of playing, phrasing, even the direction of notes in a phrase all have a bearing on the choices Electri6ity makes.