Introducing: The Commodore - Timeless Soul Guitar

Congrats on a brilliant library. It's downloading to my PC as I write this.

A very nice library, I noticed I could easily replicate many things with it that I could only find in guitar loops previously, which other guitar libraries could not replicate. Or they kinda could with lots of work but they did not sound nearly as good. I did go and enable the pitch bend in the octaves instrument though as it gave it more versatility. 5/5!

AceAudioHQ said:

A very nice library, I noticed I could easily replicate many things with it that I could only find in guitar loops previously, which other guitar libraries could not replicate. Or they kinda could with lots of work but they did not sound nearly as good. I did go and enable the pitch bend in the octaves instrument though as it gave it more versatility. 5/5!

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Glad you're liking it! I'll add pitch bend in an update. Someone recently asked for that on the Space Age Rhythm bass too.

Great news.
Don’t know what happened with the original announcement thread, but congratulations to the release.

I love the interface, intelligent keyswitching with round robins in chords, up- down strokes, all this little wonderful things, you did for authenticity (2 different legatos), well - hence the name .
Just looking at the in-depth walkthrough.

*Edit: Bought

authentic-soundware said:

Glad you're liking it! I'll add pitch bend in an update. Someone recently asked for that on the Space Age Rhythm bass too.

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I especially love the ghost note sounds, in all the other guitar libraries I have (and I have many) they sound mostly awful, these are just perfect!

I think these kinds of libraries are what I need more of, it's not a phrase library which are very rigid in what they can do and the playable instruments in those are usually very simple and they can't often be even used to reproduce (or add to) those phrases believably. It's not a detailed guitar emulation with which you can do anything like with a real guitar. Making nice riffs, especially rhythm guitar stuff with those is usually a time consuming process, and the end result is most of the time still not that realistic. This kind of library where there are several special articulations, falls, bends, trills (and not just the basic sustain, staccato etc) and recorded chords is much faster, much more realistic and much more fun to use. I think it's a perfect combination of the best features in both of those library types.

Sounds fabulous! And the demos are great, such an authentic and enjoyable sound. Enjoyed your walkthroughs also. I'll be purchasing the Commodore.

Curious about the drums on the demo, what libraries were used?

Huge congrats Jared!! Sounds great.

berndfri said:

Curious about the drums on the demo, what libraries were used?

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It's a mix of different sources, but on the tracks called Five Alive, Spin It, Sunny Day in Memphis, and Mr. Softee, the drums and any percussion/tambourine are from Space Age Rhythm.

I just posted an exciting new episode of BEHIND THE DEMO! In this video, I show how I made one of the demo tracks for The Commodore, and you can download a multi-track MIDI file of the sequence to further study how you might use the library yourself.

bought! It's an outstanding library! Also, thank you very much for your detailed walkthrough & info material. Really appreciated.

Can we finger our own inversions, like Pettinhouse, or do we have to choose chords for each key like Indiginus?

Ashermusic said:

Can we finger our own inversions, like Pettinhouse, or do we have to choose chords for each key like Indiginus?

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Hi there,

I'm not familiar with the instruments mentioned, but The Commodore chords are samples of actual complete chord voicing performances, which can be selected either by fingering (in detect mode) or via key switch. It's not the type of instrument where a number of single-note samples are played back to create a chord. We opted to sample a wide array of quintessential voicings for this style, which was a deliberate decision to compromise somewhat on flexibility to achieve greater realism and stylistic authenticity. However you could always use the melodic single-note patch to create a specific voicing or overlay an extra note to chord. And, of course the loops also have all the chord voicings baked in as well.

Hope that helps!
-Jared

authentic-soundware said:

Hi there,

I'm not familiar with the instruments mentioned, but The Commodore chords are samples of actual complete chord voicing performances, which can be selected either by fingering (in detect mode) or via key switch. It's not the type of instrument where a number of single-note samples are played back to create a chord. We opted to sample a wide array of quintessential voicings for this style, which was a deliberate decision to compromise somewhat on flexibility to achieve greater realism and stylistic authenticity. However you could always use the melodic single-note patch to create a specific voicing or overlay an extra note to chord. And, of course the loops also have all the chord voicings baked in as well.

Hope that helps!
-Jared

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"which can be selected either by fingering (in detect mode"

EDIT: I just watched the walkthrough video. This is incredibly well thought out. I just bought it, and it is fantastic.

authentic-soundware said:

I just posted an exciting new episode of BEHIND THE DEMO! In this video, I show how I made one of the demo tracks for The Commodore, and you can download a multi-track MIDI file of the sequence to further study how you might use the library yourself.

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No bass part in the MIDI file?

Ashermusic said:

"which can be selected either by fingering (in detect mode"

EDIT: I just watched the walkthrough video. This is incredibly well thought out. I just bought it, and it is fantastic.

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Hey, thanks so much taking the time to check out the video and for purchasing the library!

Sorry for the confusion about the midi file, when I said "multi-part" I just meant that it had all three guitar parts from the demo in one midi file. But here's a full midi file with bass, drums, and percussion. The drums and percussion are from Space Age Rhythm and not standard GM mapped (although close-ish).

authentic-soundware said:

Hey, thanks so much taking the time to check out the video and for purchasing the library!

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Great, thanks. What is the percussion, shaker? Congas?

Ashermusic said:

Great, thanks. What is the percussion, shaker? Congas?

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Bongos, conga and tambourine. (There's a tamb loop and also some single accent hits.)

Btw, on the Motown records both Dennis Coffey and Robert White generally played Gibsons while Joe Messina usually played a Telecaster.

This sounds more like a Telecaster?

Yes, it's a tele. Steve Cropper also often played a tele. Junior Lowe at Muscle Shoals too, I believe. it seemed like the most versatile way to go. We used Di Marzio Area T bridge pickups because, for sampling, hum is not a good thing.