Wouldn't it be nice if companies like Even Harmonic were able to do for warring nations and estranged spouses what they can do for Native Instruments Kontakt 3 and your MIDI-Guitar? Using an embedded KSP script, Gtak lets guitar-MIDI-converters and the thousand-plus Kontakt instruments communicate with near-flawless results, allowing for creative expression and collaboration that wasn't available before.

Gtak's main tack in breaking down the communication barrier is to correctly interpret the pitch-bend data sent from guitar-MIDI converters so that Kontakt can trigger its multi-samples in a way that makes sense with your playing. This fix also correctly translates hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides and other techniques that guitarists normally don't even have to think about when playing.

The pitchbend tracking can be quantized to semitones or quarter-tones, resulting in some pretty unorthodox auto-tune effects, as well as the more practical effect of making chords sound more in-tune. Pitchbends can even be set to trigger new notes, instead of just bending the previously played note.

Gtak also makes it easy to use a MIDI footswitch or the MIDI-converter's integrated footswitch as a sustain pedal for atmospheric pads and other synth-instruments.

That's just scratching the surface of what Gtak does for Kontakt and MIDI-guitarists. There's also:

• Extends note range of many instruments to cover range that guitar is capable of
• set different instruments for different strings and fret zones like you would with a split-keyboard
• sophisticated support for legato instruments
• support for "keyswitching" instruments (e.g. change violin playing style with the guitar's low E-string)
• Groovebox and Drum Computer sequence triggering from the guitar's low E-string
• Set transpose values for each strin for open tunings.

Gtak is downloadable, and purchasable from the Even Harmonics website for €69.