What are the the Guitar Harmonics?

On string instruments, players can cause a string to vibrate only in sections by touching it lightly at the appropriate point. This can produce a pure and clear note of a cool, silvery quality. It is called ‘flageolet notes’ or ‘harmonics’. Guitar Harmonics’ consists of an assortment of electric and acoustic guitars and basses. We spent a lot of time finding the perfect setup to achieve a warm and realistic sound. In the end we decided to record the guitars tuned in open E with 3 Round Robin variation and particulary several velocity layers – sufficient for our purposes. Besides, each instrument provides a lot of useful scripting tools such as note length control (release and attack), EQ switch, amp simulation, distortion and reverb amount.
Summing up these tools enable each instrument to produce a wide spread of sounds such as organic reverse guitars, fragile string notes or warm e-piano tones.

Update:In 2015 we updated the Guitar Harmonics and put together all separate patches into one complex patch covered by a brand new GUI. It is now possible to select between all instruments in one patch enriched by several new fx options.

Get your Free HALion Version of the Guitar Harmonics

We gladly offer a free verion of the Guitar Harmonics on the platform fo HALion Sonic 3. This is a limited version of our Kontakt version with just one articulation. But even this version is pure fun and shows how the instrumnent sound.