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Virtual Guitarist CARBON is a software instrument doubling as both:
- A heavy “djent” guitarist playing a custom-built, 8-string, low-range / drop-tune guitar through a large custom setup of specialized, futuristic amps and cabinet models
- And a creative electronic sound designer/engineer who knows how to creatively chop, tweak, modulate or destroy the raw guitar sound in order to create hundreds of guitar- or non-guitar-like sounds, rhythms and textures.
CARBON was designed to create a wide range of popular guitar sounds. Yes, it can play traditional metal riffs, but where it really shines is creating new, modern guitar sounds that are “sound-designed and “unreal” in a good way.
No matter how much you push the edgy digital effects, the underlying sonic textures always remain organic and raw. The instrument always remains playable and musical. This lets Carbon play perfectly alongside synths, drum machines, orchestras and band musicians.
It is the sound of hellfire inside an Icelandic volcano and also the sensitive instrumentation aboard a lonely space station orbiting the moons of Jupiter.
It is heavy and in-your-face when pushed but also light-and-delicate when dialed down. Use it to inject an instant, controlled blast of raw power or to provide a slowly evolving momentum to build up and carry a scene.
Virtual Guitarist CARBON can perform either as a guitar player or as a guitar instrument, and you can switch between those two at any time.
- In PLAYER Mode, you can play notes and select phrases and this way control the performance of the built-in guitar player.
- In INSTRUMENT Mode, Virtual Guitarist CARBON emulates a guitar instrument that you can play on your MIDI keyboard.
Instrument Mode
CARBON’s Instrument Mode lets you play a wide range of articulations on an amazing 8-string guitar. This mode is perfect if you are a prolific keyboard player and want to play the guitar live, or if you just want to throw in a riff or note here and there.
Player Mode
Use this mode when you want to enjoy the super-realistic performance of a real guitar player with very simple input from yourself.
Here, you control Virtual Guitarist CARBON using notes – e.g. from a piano track or by just holding keys, and you create a vivid, real performance switching phrases in the Common or Style areas of the Interactive Keyboard.
Phrase Drag’n’Drop (Player Mode only)
You may have noticed that the keys in the Common and Play Range of the Interactive Keyboard show little handles with six dots at the top. By clicking such an handle and dragging it into your Instrument Track, you will create a MIDI copy of that particular phrase, pitch taken from the last notes you played in the Play Range, in your DAW track.
Amp Stack And Sound Section
The left two thirds of the mid section in CARBONs user interface let you set up and tweak the guitar sound using a bunch of innovative, powerful controls.
Carbons five “ultra amps” can’t be defined by terms like “British” or “American”, “Rectifier” or “Tube”. They are more like moods or different types of force, which is why Ujam called them Conditions.
There are five of them available in CARBON, representing increasing stages of rage and insanity from bottom to top:
- Paranoid – A tamer, warm sound almost resembling tape saturation.
- Disturbed – Typical hard rock setting with a warm and mid-based speaker array.
- Insane – The bridge between classical hard rock and hi-gain metal.
- Rabid – Fully-grown metal setting with aggressive hi-gain distortion, punchy bottom end and piercing high frequency quality.
- Lobotomized – The most dangerous weapon of choice – the soundtrack to tearing down empires or destroying planets.
Other controls in this section include:
- Severity – CARBON conditions come in various levels of Severity. Technically, Severity turns up “distortion” inside the multiple amp stages.
- Focus – The Focus knob controls a morphing EQ
- Filter – This is a multimode 24dB synthesizer filter specifically optimized for creating those juicy risers and intros by slowly turning the filter across a bar or two.
The Finisher
The Finisher is a super powerful custom effect array, with no less than 20 individual effect processors, macro-controlled by a single selector and control knob.
Effects used range from EQs to multiband compressors to distortion, delay, chorus, phaser, flanger, and reverb to a convolution unit (providing impulse responses of cabinets and more) to rather experimental stuff like beat cutter or grain pitch.
It lends the raw guitar sound all kinds of finish, from subtle character changes to standard effects such as delay, reverb or modulations to crazy grain clouds that render the original sound unrecognizable.
Layerer
The Layerer is a complex engine-in-the-engine that is capable of stacking up four CARBON guitarists and position them vertically and horizontally across the sound stage.
This means that it doesn’t merely multiply a single guitarist’s signal, but that it literally engages up to four guitarists who play independently (with slightly different timing and tuning) just like in real life.
Virtual Guitarist CARBON is available to PC and Mac users (VST2, AU and AAX).
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