Guitars have often been badly emulated by synthesizers and even sample libraries. So much is the fact that you tend to question whether is there anything good enough out there to fool me into thinking that it's a real guitar. Sometimes the inherent listener situation out there can be so bad that some people might even mistake your guitar playing for a keyboard emulation (take it from my experience; they sometimes do). One release is there to be another contender for the most realistic guitar sample library in the market: the Prominy LPC Electric Guitar LE.

Even if the samples were taken from a real guitar, say a Gibson Les Paul Custom, it still wouldn't mean that it would sound like a real guitar. Prominy says that the LPC Electric Guitar LE can be used to create those natural guitar tracks. How so you might ask? LPC Electric Guitar LE features realtime playability with emulation of articulations such as legato slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs, vibrato, mute, picking noises, tremolo, pinch harmonics, and most of the other articulations done with power chords. This instrument has auto stroke detection which carefully considers beat position to accurately emulate the effects of upstrokes and downstrokes. Double tracking can be reproduced easily to thicken up the sound, and this instrument makes use of samples derived from real legato slides. Each of the articulations described above can be accessed and created instantly without interrupting your performance.

Prominy LPC Electric Guitar LE also comes with a .kpe file for Kore 2 and Kontakt 3 that is already double tracked and effected with the built-in amp simulator of Kore. Now, to make that rather convincing guitar playing as featured in the demo MP3 on their website, I believe it is best used within a compositional aspect where you can plan ahead where to play particular notes and insert appropriate articulations and other effects. Prominy LPC Electric Guitar LE has an MSRP of 169.00 USD and can be ordered from the Prominy website.