Three-Body Technology Heavier7Strings

Premium 7-string virtual instrument

• High-quality A/D conversion and ultra-low noise level.
• 4 Years of recording and engineering to bring you unrivaled samples.
• 10000+ samples, 24-bit 48khz, 10GB in total.
• Individual samples for infinite sustain to freely adjust decay rate.

Bring Heavy Metal back to your Music
Three-Body Technology proudly presents Heavier7Strings, a real-time playable sample-based virtual instrument thats brings back Heavy Metal to your productions. Equiped with a complete effect rack and a patterns library, this metal-style guitar library has everything you need!

The love for music, and a desire to create innovative studio technology was the mainspring that made Heavier7Strings possible. With total of 4 years in the making, using only top quality equipment, more than 10.000 samples were painstakingly recorded in 24-bit and 48 kHz. To top it all off Heavier7Strings comes with a self-developed sampler with no compromise on sound quality.

The Effect Rack
What is the first thing to do when one starts a virtual guitar? Usually it is to bypass all built-in effects, as they are mostly too primitive for any serious work. However, the effect rack provided in Heavier7Strings is complete and of production-level quality, not just a toy!

Effects Rack:

• What is the first thing to do when one starts a virtual guitar? Usually it is to bypass all built-in effects, as they are mostly too primitive for any serious work. However, the effect rack we provide to you is complete and of production-level quality, not just a toy!
• Clean samples + Effect rack = Complete electric guitar solution
• Effect Rack can be used alone on an audio track, with third-party instruments or even with a real guitar!
• 21 effect modules including; Screamer, EQ12, AMP, Flanger, Ping-Pong delay, etc.
• 16 AMPs with styles from heavy metal to clean. 2x – 8x sample rate processing.
• 66 cabinet IRs, up to four at once with adjustable delay, volume and phasing.
• 200 factory presets, along with a preset manager to store your own presets.

MIDI Patterns Library
Heavier7Strings contains a number of 200 predefined MIDI patterns, together with effect rack configuration. The style of these patterns ranged from metal, rock, pop, clean, and along with non-rhythmic noise and ambient sounds. All these patterns can be dragged into host DAWs, and users can define their own patterns by MIDI clip.

Patterns Overview:

• 200 factory MIDI patterns together with effect rack presets
• Various styles: metal, rock, pop, clean, along with non-rhythmic noise and ambient sounds.
• Draggable into host DAWs
• Users can define their own patterns by dragging MIDI into

Samples and Sampler
The sampler used in Heavier7Strings is self-developed, no third-party samplers were used.

It has following characteristics:

• Direct read from disk
• Shared sample buffer between instances to reduce memory consumption
• Automatic fade out on disk-read overtime to avoid clicks & pops.

Built-in DSP Engine

• Self-developed sampler with no compromise on sound quality.
• Direct-from-disk stream allows for more efficient resource usage.
• The THRASH (Tonal/Harmonic Reconstruction and Shaping) DSP engine.
• Dynamically adjustable sample harmonics.
• Dynamically reconstructed formants.
• Realistic pitch-bend and pitch-shift.
• PitchBend: instead of barely doing pitch shifting, real-world pitch-bend has changes on formant. With THRASH engine, Heavier7Strings dynamically recoups the formant and produces refined pitch-bend sound.
• (round robin) gives you different sound when notes are played repeatedly. The samples in Heavier7Strings have at most 16 RRs recorded, but with THRASH engine we are able to induce randomized tone changes in addition to actually recorded samples, thus produces more realistic repeated playing than just randomly repeats samples.
• Adjustable real-world sampled-LFO for authentic vibrato: many samplers simply use sine wave to modulate pitch to produce vibratos. However, real vibratos played from a guitar player are far from sinusoid-modulated pitches. To pursue realistic and adjustable vibrato sound, we recorded the pitch shift curve from real-world vibrato playing, and use it to modulate the normal playing samples.

Performance

• Infinite sustain
• Hammer-on & pull-off
• Legato slide in/out
• Pinch harmonics
• Tremolo
• Gliss
• Palm-mute
• Picking-noise
• Polyphonic legato
• 24 “inspiration keys” to directly trigger specially played sounds/complex performances
• String and fret board position
• Up/down picking
• Strumming: deduce complete chord from part of composing notes
• Trigger power chords from root note

Mac:

• Mac OS X 10.9+ (64bit)
• Intel Core Duo
• SSE 4 or higher
• 4GB RAM
• 10GB free hard drive space
• VST 64bit, AudioUnit 64bit, AAX 64bit on Mac OSX
• Logic Pro X or higher, Logic Pro 9 is not supported

 PC:

• Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 ,32 or 64 bit
• Intel Core Duo / AMD Athlon 64
• SSE 4 or higher
• 4GB RAM
• 10GB free hard drive space
• VST 32bit, VST 64bit, AAX 32bit, AAX 64bit on Windows