Funk Soul Productions Vintage Rhythm Section KONTAKT

Vintage Rhythm Section is a virtual instrument for Kontakt 5 designed to emulate the classic rhythm section sounds of R&B, Soul, Funk, Jazz, and Rock records from the 1960's and 1970's.

Vintage Rhythm Section (VRS) is easy to use, with a simple interface that lets you work quickly and intuitively. If you're producing retro or indie-style music on a budget, or if you're a TV or film composer working on a tight deadline, VRS can be used to create live-sounding drums, bass, guitar, keyboard, and percussion tracks.



CAPTURING THAT VINTAGE RHYTHM SECTION SOUND

Like its sister-products, Vintage Horns and Vintage Strings, Vintage Rhythm Section was not designed to be a shiny, perfect-sounding virtual instrument. Instead, we tried to capture the way rhythm sections sounded back in the 60's and 70's, including some of the minor imperfections that added character to those instruments and made them sound so good.

For VRS, we sampled a large collection of vintage instruments - some amazingly still in mint condition, and others looking every bit as "vintage" as you'd expect a piece of 40-50 year-old gear to look.

Wherever possible, we used the same types of amps and mics that were used in the 60's and 70's. Some of this old gear was pretty funky-sounding, which probably would have disqualified it from being used on most other types of sample libraries. But for VRS, it was just what we were looking for.

VINTAGE RHYTHM SECTION GUIs

VRS features two easy-to-use GUIs:

1) A 12-channel mixer for drums

2) The main GUI, which is used for all of the keyboards, basses, and guitars.

Here's a quick overview of both.

THE DRUM MIXER

Reverb Select: This is a drop-down menu that allows you to select various types of convolution IRs.
Channel Strips: Each offers controls for Treble, Bass, Reverb Amount, Pan, and Solo/Mute. Note that not all kits have the same number of toms and cymbals. Instead, each kit was custom-built to fit the musical genre and era it came from.
Master Channel: Allows you to add tape saturation (SAT) and/or compression (COMP) to the entire kit.

THE MAIN GUI

From top to bottom and left to right, this GUI has the following controls:

- TAPE SAT adds tape-style saturation/compression

TREBLE adds or cuts high end
BASS adds or cuts low end
DISTORTION SWITCH - use this to turn the effect on or off
DISTORTION adds amp-style distortion
DELAY controls the amount of tape-style delay
DELAY SELECT allows you to choose from several types of delay
ROTATOR SWITCH turs Leslie-style effect on or off
ROTATOR allows you to select the speed of the Leslie-effect
REVERB controls the amount of reverb added
REVERB SELECT allows you to choose from a selection of high-quality Convolution Reverbs designed to replicate a number of vintage amp-reverbs and recording spaces
MOD-WAH SWITCH turns on your controller's Mod Wheel as a wah-wah pedal

Key-Switches
Key-switching is a function that allows the user to quickly change from one articulation to another. If an instrument has any key-switch options, it will have red keys located on the far left of the Kontakt virtual keyboard. Many of the basses and guitars offer key-switched long and short (sustain and staccato) articulations, and some of the keyboards offer different key-switched presets.

Details

- 67 Instrument Patches
- 19 Multi Patches
- Over 16.4 GB of uncompressed WAV data (7.4 Compressed)
- Instruments are divided into 3 categories:

R&B:
- R&B Basses
- R&B Drums
- R&B Guitars
- R&B Keyboards
- R&B Percussion

Jazz:
- Jazz Basses
- Jazz Drums
- Jazz Guitars
- Jazz Keyboards
- Jazz Percussion

Rock:
- Rock Basses
- Rock Drums
- Rock Guitars
- Rock Keyboards

Complete Patch List

The instruments in VRS are organized into three main Style Folders, which contain the following instrument patches:

R&B Instruments

R&B Basses:
- 70s Funk Bass
- Bright R&B Bass
- Slap Bass
- Slap Wah Bass
- Soul Bass Mutes

R&B Drum Kits
- 60s Motown Kit
- 70s R&B Kit
- 70s Tight Funk KIt
- Retro Soul Kit

R&B Guitars
- 70s Funky Telecaster
- Funk-Soul Wah Rhythm Guitar
- Mod-Wah Soulful Strat
- Philly Soul Electric Sitar
- Psychedelic Soul Lead Guitar

R&B Keyboards
- Clean Hohner D6 Clavinet
- Funk Wah Clavinet
- Funky Amped Rhodes
- Gritty Hohner D6 Clavinet
- Hammond Gospel Organ
- Retro Soul Vibes
- Warm Wurlitzer
- Wurlitzer Vibrato

R&B Percussion
- R&B Bongos
- R&B Congas
- R&B Hand Percussion

Jazz Instruments

Jazz Basses
- 70s Jazz-Rock Bass
- Fusion Slap Wah Bass
- Upright Bass

Jazz Drums KIts
- 60s Soul Jazz Kit
- 70s Fusion Kit
- Vintage Jazz Brush Kit
- Vintage Jazz Stick Kit

Jazz Guitars
- Clean Jazz Guitar
- Gritty Jazz Guitar

Jazz Keyboards
- Rhodes Clean Jazz
- Rhodes Fusion Amped
- Soul Jazz Hammond B3
- Vintage Jazz Upright Piano
- Vintage Jazz Vibes

Jazz Percussion
- Soul Jazz Bongos
- Soul Jazz Congas

Rock Instruments

Rock Basses
- 60s Hagstrom Rock Bass
- 60s Rickenbacker Rock Bass
- Psychedelic Fuzz Bass
- Surf Rock Bass
- Univox Picked Rock Bass

Rock Drum Kits
- 60s Surf Rock Kit
- 70s Prog Rock Kit
- Brit Rock Kit
- Classic Rock Kit

Rock Guitars
- 12-String Rickenbacker
- 68 Les Paul Clean
- 68 Les Paul Classic Rock
- 70s Fuzz Lead Guitar
- Clean Tremolo Surf Guitar
- Dirty Tremolo Surf Guitar
- Flower Power Guitar
- Martin Acoustic Guitar
- Psychedelic Electric Sitar
- Woodstock Lead Guitar

Rock Keyboards
- 60s Farfisa Organ
- 60s Vox Continental
- Bubblegum Rock Organ
- Hammond B3 Organ 01
- Hammond B3 Organ 02
- Hammond B3 Organ 03
- Wurlitzer Amped

Complete List Of Multis

- Brit Rock Rhythm Section 01
- Brit Rock Rhythm Section 02
- Bubblegum Rock Rhythm Section
- Classic Rock Rhythm Section
- Detroit Soul Ballad Rhythm Section
- Detroit Soul Rhythm Section
- Funkedelic Rhythm Section
- Jazz Fusion Rhythm Section
- Jazz Rock Rhythm Section
- Oakland Soul Rhythm Section
- Philly Soul Rhythm Section
- Prog Rock Rhythm Section
- Psychedelic Rock Rhythm Section
- Psychedelic Soul Rhythm Section
- Retro-Disco Rhythm Section
- Soul Jazz Rhythm Section
- Surf Rock Rhythm Section
- Vintage Jazz Ballad Rhythm Section
- Vintage Jazz Rhythm Section



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