“Stratosphere is the best guitar library I’ve ever used for leads. The interface is intuitive and quick—customization is a breeze. Superb.” - Bill Evans, Executive Producer/Engineer, Flying Colors (Steve Morse, Dave LaRue, Mike Portnoy, Casey McPherson)

“What a BADASS instrument! It sounds terrific. The GUI is intuitive and everything is really clear.” - Pieter Schlosser, Composer (additional music for Gears of War 2, Gears of War 3, The Sims 3, Friday the 13th, Desperate Housewives)

"My friends all think I'm joking when I tell them the guitar on my songs were played by me on a keyboard. The new Orange Tree Samples Evolution Electric Guitar - Stratosphere is simply amazing. Pitch bends, vibrato, and strumming are a breeze.” - Robert Williams, Drummer (Captain Beefheart, Hugh Cornwell)

When we introduced our line of guitar sample libraries in 2008, it represented a stunning leap forward in sampled guitar realism. Today, you’ll find the Evolution line of guitars and basses in final productions of numerous movie and television scores, trailers, games, even pop hits. Evolution Electric Guitar - Stratosphere represents the fifth generation of the Evolution guitar engine and incorporates refinements that provide unparalleled realism and more intuitive play.

For example, Stratosphere has an intuitive, powerful strumming pattern editor. We felt it was important to make something that represents strumming better than the traditionally-used step sequencer approach, so we came up with a more powerful system that’s fast and easy to use. It gives you control over which strings get strummed, the direction of the strum, and the speed of the strum. Plus, you can use many articulations within a single strum pattern, and even incorporate special effects like string slaps as part of the pattern.

Next, all the factory presets are available directly inside Stratosphere’s interface, meaning that you can see the preset name at all times as well as use convenient arrow buttons to scroll through the included collection of factory guitar tones and strumming patterns.

Evolution Electric Guitar - Stratosphere comes with a robust guitar effects engine, including a vast collection of over $8,000 of modeled guitar pedals. Additionally, you have selectable guitar cab sizes with several options for microphones and mic placement. All together, you have a comprehensive guitar effects suite at your fingertips without external guitar effect processors necessary to get amazing-sounding tones.

But don’t just take our word for it, let your ears decide.

Audio Demos:
Demo #1: Wayfarer
Demo #2: Infrablue
Demo #3: Squad Car
Demo #4: Time Traveler



Key features:

• Multitracking up to quadruple tracking.

• Adjustable pick position using our proprietary physical modeling technology.

• Various vibrato styles, from classic vibrato to rock and metal vibrato with adjustable depth/speed. Vibrato can be assigned to MIDI CCs or aftertouch.

• Powerful mapping system that lets you set how you want to trigger articulations, using conditions such as velocity ranges, MIDI CCs, latching and non-latching keyswitches, and more.

• Built-in strum pattern editor for authentic guitar strumming.

Sampling specifications:

• Over 10,000 samples, recorded in 24-bit, 48khz.

• Articulations such as sustains, half palm mutes, full palm mutes, mutes, squeals, tapping, natural harmonics, plus special effects such as chugs, scratches, string slaps, and much more. The articulations amount to 144 unique samples per note, although because each string was sampled individually, in certain cases there are many more based on your ability to play the same note on different strings.

• MIDI articulations for instant upward/downward grace notes, buzz trills, whole-step slides, whole-step hammer-ons, slides (velocity-based and tempo-synced), octaves, and powerchords.

• Legato samples for slides, hammer-ons, and pull-offs.

• The articulations have 3 dynamics, 2 pick directions (when applicable), and 2x round-robin.

• Modeled pickup selection for bridge, bridge + middle, middle, middle + neck, and neck pickups.

Pricing:
$139 USD (regularly $179), instantly downloadable purchase. This $40 OFF introductory discount expires on January 31st, 2015.

Format:
Due to the extensive scripting, this sample library is available in KONTAKT 4 / 5 format only. The sample library requires the full retail version of KONTAKT 4 / 5, so it is not compatible with the free KONTAKT Player.

Downloads:
User's Guide (PDF)

Visit the product page here: Evolution Electric Guitar - Stratosphere sample library for KONTAKT

Or you can click here to order Evolution Electric Guitar - Stratosphere directly
 

Man, I have been spending way too much money lately... But I wants this.

Sounds awesome gregjazz. Terrific product demo too. I see one of the other vids has 100000 clicks. I'll be getting it in the new year. How about a mallet bundle?

Dammit Greg, now I have to take my wife's christmas present back, lol. Love your stuff!
 
Regards,
Dan
 

I have been waiting for this, so its in the financial plan!

Ok... so never got into the strawberry engine but this is exquisite!  
 

Damn, I just shot my wad on orchestral sample libraries. But I'm pretty sure Greg will give us another shot at a discounted price during the coming year.
 
He did that for his [frickin' amazing] Rickenbacker bass. I couldn't afford that one either when it came out, even though I'd been waiting for it. I missed the introductory price but was able to pick it up a few months later on sale.
 
Here's hoping the Strat can be my next birthday present. That's in October, Greg. Please make a note.

October--got it!

Just downloaded and installed this one. The initial impression is this is great both in terms of sound and playability.

bitflipper
Damn, I just shot my wad on orchestral sample libraries. But I'm pretty sure Greg will give us another shot at a discounted price during the coming year.
 
He did that for his [frickin' amazing] Rickenbacker bass. I couldn't afford that one either when it came out, even though I'd been waiting for it. I missed the introductory price but was able to pick it up a few months later on sale.
 
Here's hoping the Strat can be my next birthday present. That's in October, Greg. Please make a note.

Ok, I don't know about anyone else, but it's a no-brainer for me to say that Bitflippers' knowledge, expertise, and advice on these forums has been nothing short of phenomenal and invaluable over the years, and it wouldn't be the same here without him - and neither would some of us.
 
So I vote that 28 of us donate $5 [USD] so that Bit can get a copy of this new EEG Stratosphere library from Greg - kinda like a reverse or somewhat sideways group buy.
 
That way he won't have to wait until October, which is way too long.
 
So I'll start:
 
I, *jimusic* hereby commit to donating $5 to Bitflipper for this purchase.
 
Upon seeing 27 others do the same, I will then send the $5 to Bit via Paypal [if he has it - or by some other method].
 
So I'm donation #1.
 
Please post what donation # you are as above so that it will be easy to see when we get to #28 = $140.
Once that is achieved, let's bombard Bit with $5 - 28 times.
 
It should be easy enough to get 27 more people by Jan. 31, 2015.
 
 
Cheers Bit!