Homegrown Sounds has announced the release of HG Electric Sitar, a new VST instrument plug-in for Windows based on a multi-sampled Jerry Jones Electric Sitar, the modern day equivalent of the '60s Dan Electro, used by The Beatles and the Stones.
Full Feature List:
- Dual Sitar Layers – There are 7 different sample sets, each has a unique sample per note.
- Filter – Cascadable up to 8 times and includes Low Passes, Hi Passes, Band Passes, Comb, Low Shelf, Hi Shelf and Peak.
- 2 ADSR Envelopes – Simple Envelopes. Envelope 2 can either be used to control Sitar 2 volume or used to shape the Filter Cutoff Frequency.
- Drive – Auto Volume Distortion.
- Arpeggiator – With many modes include classic Arp modes.
- Microtuner – Microtuner uses most standard Scala files of any size for custom tunings.
- SoundScaper – Comb / Delay / Reverb Effect for creating interesting soundscapes.
- Flanger/Filter – Switchable between Flanger and Filter effect, LFO has over 300 predefined shapes with smooth control as well as standard shapes.
- Stereo BPM based Delay – Synced delay.
- FX Routing – 3 different Paths available.
- Drift – Adds a random pitch detune with each note played.
- Stereo Spread – Allows setting a random value to the Pan of each voice.
- Recorder – Allows recording directly to disk at 16/24/32 bits. Wavs are auto-named by date and location is set via a config file.
- Limiter – Output is limited to prevent clipping.
- Default – Sets Sitar to default settings.
- Randomize – Randomizes all settings. There are also local randomizers in each section.
Pricing & Availability
HG Electric Sitar is available for Windows as a VST instrument plug-in.
There is a demo version available which has just a single lofi sample set and no Microtuner.
The full price is £30 but it is currently available for the introductory offer price of £18.
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