All the sounds of myriad acoustic guitars + applied effects and processing = Ambient Guitar, the new sample library and Kontakt instrument from Tonehammer.

Ambient Guitar is a massive collection of carefully crafted ambient samples made from a number of different guitars, FX, and amps. All source material is comprised of live guitar with various effects applied in real-time, with minimal post-production processing. If you're looking for melodic guitar lines and recognizable chord progressions, this library is not for you, since the focus of this library is the unrecognizable, ambient side of the stringed instrument.

Tonehammer writes, "Beyond the strums, palm-mutes, plucks, picks, squeals, pinch-harmonics, and lightning fast, finger-bleeding leads typically played on guitars, there lies a dreamy, synthy, rarely heard realm of droning beauty in the guitar. Of course there is still room for plenty of range within this realm. You'll find sounds from awe-inspiring beauty to fist-clenching rage, from the eerie unknown to somber loneliness, from pulse-pounding horror to gentle, soothing harmony. Taking a small step back from the realm of pure ambience is a select group of bonus post-apocalyptic-inspired, minimalist phrases. These phrases are all still very ambient in nature and are meant to work perfectly on top of the purely ambient patches."

For those who still want to eek out a melody or two from this library, Tonehammer included multi-sampled bass and guitar, providing a massive range of standard plucked notes to play any melody you wish.

Ambient Guitar's sounds are organized into five major emotional categories (Awe, Horror, Mystery, Rage, Sadness), and it includes over 280 .NKI files (2.6 GB), 379 samples, and bonus custom convolution reverb impulse files.

What's included with Ambient Guitar:

• Ambiences, phrases, and multi-samples made with guitars and amps
• Ambiences in core emotional categories for easy scoring:
• Awe ambiances
• Sadness ambiances
• Mystery ambiances
• Horror ambiances
• Rage ambiances
• Ambient plucked guitar
• Ambient plucked bass
• Custom convolution reverb
• FX controls (verb, filters, stereo, lo-fi, and so forth)
• 289 Kontakt .NKI files
• 379 Samples
• 24-Bit, 44.1 kHz stereo PCM WAV format
• 1.5 GB (compressed) download / 2.6 GB (uncompressed) installed
• Requires a full version of Native Instruments Kontakt 3.5 or higher (not the free Kontakt Player)
• Runs standalone or as plugin via VST, AU, RTAS (Pro Tools 7 and 8)

Tonehammer Ambient Guitar is now available at the introductory price of $79. After July 1, 2011, the library will be available for $99. For more details, visit tonehammer.com.