Iron Pack 12 – Prepared Guitar

The Iron Pack series is a line of compact, affordable, unique and great-sounding virtual instrument libraries for Kontakt and universal SFZ formats.

Iron Pack 12 brings you a range of different prepared acoustic guitar string plucks. Each string was modified with various attached bits and pieces of metal wires, scraps, nuts and bolts. You also get a cool set of 14 different synth leads, ambiences and evolving atmospheres that they sound designed from these highly distressed strings. It’s 165 MB installed, with 33 presets and 37 samples.

If you’d like to use the sounds in these Iron Pack libraries in other synths and samplers outside of Kontakt, or you do not yet own the full version of Kontakt, you can still enjoy using all of the content and many of the main control features. They’ve included universal sfz presets. These open-format presets can be imported into any sfz opcode spec 2.0 compliant soft-synth or sampler engine.

There are many SFZ-compatible VST, AU and AAX Plugin engines to choose from. If you’d like an easy to use sampler plugin that can load these presets with a full-featured GUI, they highly recommend the free Sforzando player by Plogue. They’ve optimized these presets to let you experience the full range of features they’ve included in their SFZ presets for this library. Sforzando is compatible with vst, au and rtas plugin format standards. It’s available for Mac OSX 10.6 and up and Windows XP and up.