Glyn Barnes
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Orange Tree Banshee now Dracus - Free upgrade.
Orange Tree has updated and renamed Banshee. Incidentally dont be put off by the apparent "metal" bias, this is a very versitile instrument. We've just released a new version for the (formerly-named) Evolution Banshee sample library. Here's what's new:
Library Renamed To avoid confusion with a real guitar having a similar name, we've renamed the library to Evolution Dracus. After all, you can't get more metal than dragons and vampires.
Now NKS-Ready Just like with the Evolution Strawberry, Steel Strings, and our recently released Modern Nylon guitar libraries, Evolution Dracus is now NKS-ready. This virtual instrument specification has a ton of benefits, especially if you own any Komplete Kontrol hardware such as an S-Series keyboard or Maschine.
Firstly, we changed the factory tone presets to use Kontakt 5's snapshot preset system instead of the integrated presets. This is a nice upgrade because your own user presets are accessible from the same dropdown menu, organized neatly into subfolders. They also integrate really nicely with Komplete Kontrol, where the snapshots are directly accessible through the instrument browser.
The library also takes advantage of the Light Guide feature on a Komplete Kontrol keyboard, showing you where all the key ranges and keyswitches are located.
Finally, if you're using any Komplete Kontrol hardware, all the parameters are automated to the hardware knobs. For example, on the S-Series keyboard, all the knobs are labeled and assigned to control the effects and various settings in the library. It adds a whole new dimension of interaction with the library, customizing it completely from the keyboard without having to touch the library's interface.
More Factory Presets One of the benefits of switching to Kontakt 5's snapshot system is being able to easily add additional factory presets to the library. So while we were at it, we added even more crunchy and distorted factory presets.
More Reverb Options We're constantly improving the Evolution guitar engine, including adding new reverb impulses. In this new upgrade, you'll find a bunch of additional reverb pedals, based on impulses recorded from real stompboxes. The number of effects included in the Evolution guitar library is now dangerously close to pedal-hoarding status. But we don't judge.
To install this new updated version, you'll need to download the engine and samples and re-add it to Kontakt as if it's a new library.
Unfortunaly it is necessary to download all the samples again so it will be an hour or two before I can try it out!
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Glyn Barnes
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Re: Orange Tree Banshee now Dracus - Free upgrade.
2016/03/16 12:23:46
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Down loaded and installed. It installs along side Banshee, which is still visable in the libraries tab in Kontakt and has its own serial number. Unless you have existing projects that rely on it I cant see any reason not to remove Banshee if you want to reclaim 8GB of disk space. It’s a worthwhile upgrade even if you do not need the NKS support as there are a number of other improvements and more pre-sets. If you are not an NKS user you still can benefit by from the host automation introduced in this version. I have just looked at the Banshee and Dracus side by side in Sonar. Banshee does not expose parameters for automation in the synth rack, but Dracus does. And in NKS, never underestimate the value of clearly labelled encoders on a keyboard, it really encourages tweaking and scrolling through the patches without moving from the keys is neat when auditioning them. One minor disappointment is due to the limitations of Native Instruments’ classification system there is no crunch guitar category which would have made browsing easier. You just get Clean, Distorted and Jazz. For user and non-NKS pre-sets one can create categories but this feature is missing for “factory” libraries.
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Fleer
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Re: Orange Tree Banshee now Dracus - Free upgrade.
2016/03/16 12:25:52
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Happy to see this NKS upgrade is free. Wasn't like that for Steel Strings. Hope the same for Rosewood.
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Re: Orange Tree Banshee now Dracus - Free upgrade.
2016/03/16 14:08:37
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Banshee/Dracus is indeed a VERY versatile guitar... I love it!
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Re: Orange Tree Banshee now Dracus - Free upgrade.
2016/03/16 14:25:15
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☄ Helpfulby Fleer 2016/03/16 16:05:48
Fleer Happy to see this NKS upgrade is free. Wasn't like that for Steel Strings. Hope the same for Rosewood.
Because it was already a Kontakt Player library?
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Re: Orange Tree Banshee now Dracus - Free upgrade.
2016/03/16 15:51:04
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gustabo
Fleer Happy to see this NKS upgrade is free. Wasn't like that for Steel Strings. Hope the same for Rosewood.
Because it was already a Kontakt Player library?
Because it was already a Kontakt Player library. Man, I veal stoop it.
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Re: Orange Tree Banshee now Dracus - Free upgrade.
2016/03/16 15:58:48
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☄ Helpfulby Fleer 2016/03/16 16:48:14
Glyn Barnes One minor disappointment is due to the limitations of Native Instruments’ classification system there is no crunch guitar category which would have made browsing easier. You just get Clean, Distorted and Jazz. For user and non-NKS pre-sets one can create categories but this feature is missing for “factory” libraries.
I concur. It made categorizing some of the crunchy patches a little tough--is it in the realm of distortion or closer to a clean tone with a little fuzz? Here's hoping we get more tags in the future. :) Fleer Happy to see this NKS upgrade is free. Wasn't like that for Steel Strings. Hope the same for Rosewood.
Just to confirm what others said, this upgrade was free because the library had already licensed the Kontakt Player.
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Re: Orange Tree Banshee now Dracus - Free upgrade.
2016/03/17 09:37:11
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I couldn't find it mentioned on Orange Trees site: Do Nylon and Dracus work in Kontakt 4, like Steel Strings, or do they require Kontakt 5?
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Re: Orange Tree Banshee now Dracus - Free upgrade.
2016/03/17 13:08:21
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They use Kontakt 5, but both libraries license the free Kontakt Player which can be downloaded from the Native Instruments website--so you don't need to own the full version of Kontakt 5 in order to use either library.
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