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Native Instruments releases Drumasonic collaboration.
4 July 2022
Native Instruments has released Session Guitarist — Electric Mint, its latest collaboration with Drumasonic, and the newest instalment in its guitar-focused series of Kontakt-based instruments.
Delivering the versatile flavour of one of the most iconic electric guitar models, Electric Mint is sampled from an original 1960 solid-body guitar made in the USA. With a focus on songwriting, the new instrument allows users to create their own melodies or explore 222 patterns across 53 song presets covering a wide range of genres, styles, and performance techniques.
Sampled to the highest quality, the instrument features three combinable single-coil pickups for five distinct ways to shape tone, suited to rock, pop, hip hop, jazz, and more. Electric Mint also features an improved playback engine for ultra-realistic funk patterns, plus a tremolo bar feature for greater pitch expression.
Users can craft licks, grooves, and solos right out of the box, with 71 ready-to-go sound presets ranging from clean and DI to crunchy and high gain, as well as a range of life-like articulations. The instrument builds on previous features in the Sessions Guitarist collection, with a variety of amps and speaker cabinet emulations, new effects including the Supercharger-GT compressor, auto-wah ‘Cry Wah’ effect, and convolution reverbs to simulate the sound of amps in different rooms.
Electric Mint can also be used as a chord library by dragging any of the four-bar chord progressions, patterns, or voicings into a DAW for further editing, or to use the MIDI elsewhere in a session for expansive songwriting capabilities. The walkthrough video below takes a look under the hood to run through some of the instrument’s key features.
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