Vir2 Instruments Acoustic Legends HD uses Native Instruments Kontakt Player 2, which can host multiple instruments and sound libraries. Not everyone owns a collection of high-end acoustic guitars.

For that reason, Vir2 Instruments offers Acoustic Legends HD ($299.95), which provides a diverse collection of guitars with distinct tonal characteristics, so you can choose an appropriate instrument for your music. As a bonus, other fretted instruments are included, such as mandolin, acoustic bass guitar, and banjo. All told, the library amounts to 19 GB of 24-bit, 96 kHz stereo samples distributed over three DVDs. Nonetheless, Acoustic Legends HD gives you a performance-oriented layout with a number of important controls at your fingertips. The parameters you can tweak vary by instrument, but the most common ones belong to reverb, EQ, and stereo width. Most of the conventional guitar patches give you control over the release samples and level of fret noise, whereas the chord banks do not offer decay controls. One of the most challenging guitar techniques to reproduce with a keyboard is a convincing strum.

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With that in mind, Acoustic Legends HD offers a bank of strummed chords, including muted strokes for rhythmic variation. Keyswitches let you access different chord inversions and a relatively generous set of chord qualities, such as major, minor, major seventh, and half-diminished. If you need to change keys, a built-in capo function limits the range of low notes and inversion choices, just as a real capo would when placed on a guitar. The Xtra Special bank is for players who are less insistent on authenticity.

The bank contains guitars mutated into pads, tempo-synchronized arpeggios, and just plain weird and rude sounds. I appreciate some of the rhythm-oriented, tempo-sync patches, but many of the other patches strike me as filler. High Strung Appropriately, the conventional instruments sound like their sources: the Gibsons are brassy with a prominent midrange; the Martins and Taylors sound bright, detailed, and full; and the fingerpicked Lowden 025 is sweet and mellow (see Web Clip 1). The two main guitar folders break down into picked (presumably with a flat pick) and fingerpicked instruments. However, I question a couple of the instrument choices therein.

For example, the Gibson J200 is a natural for fingerpicking, yet there are no fingerpicked Gibsons at all in the collection. I would have preferred the Martin D-35 as a picked, rather than fingerpicked, instrument. In all fairness, these are reflections of my own taste rather than rules set in stone. Although steel-string guitars predominate, the collection does offer a couple of nylon-string instruments played with a pick and fingers. In addition, the Xtra bank contains some decent banjos, ukuleles, and a nice mandolin tremolo patch — fortunately, with a uniform tremolo speed across the keyboard.

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Nice-sounding variations are available throughout the library, including keyswitched instruments with slides mapped to alternate keys or keyswitched chord inversions. The bank of harmonics has some nice material, especially the J200 harmonic chords patch (see Web Clip 2). A typical problem with sampled guitars is the unnatural uniformity of timbre. In real life, an upstroke on a guitar often sounds different than a downstroke, and a strum may not occur in the same location over the instrument's sound hole, resulting in significant timbral variation. Although Acoustic Legends HD uses sampled up- and downstrokes, I noticed an apparent randomizing of samples that added authenticity to the performance. There are a few holes in the library's documentation.

Although the booklet has a list of all the instruments and model numbers, and it explains controller assignments, patch types, and nomenclature, in many cases I needed to investigate with my keyboard what the keyswitching assignments actually changed, because they were not specifically documented.

Presenting $40,000 of the finest acoustic guitars in the world, sampled in glorious high definition 24-bit 96kHz stereo, now available in this premium three-DVD, 19 gigabyte collection. This broad collection of acoustic guitars is sampled in the finest detail in a variety of playing styles, including picked notes, finger picked notes, natural and artificial harmonics, harmonic chords, mutes, chords, release layers, and even fret noise sampled for each guitar.

Also featured are numerous bonus patches of special effects, doubled guitars, and more. Acoustic Legends HD also features chord banks containing twelve different chord types in varying positions, with multiple velocity layers and multiple takes per layer, and with both up-strokes and down-strokes, making it simple to create fully authentic rhythm guitar parts. Experience legendary acoustic guitars, sampled in gorgeous detail and now available in one exquisite virtual instrument.