Iron Pack 5 – Baritone 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 #5 is built on a collection of electric baritone guitar multisample recordings. This edition features 12 unique plucked 6-string notes, evolving pads and atmospheric instruments, with over 200 MB of content. The natural plucked sustain presets encompass the baritone guitar’s natural range and beyond – both clean and distorted – while the ambient and sound designed content takes the sound in whole new directions.

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.