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Prominy Hummingbird v1.22 KONTAKT screenshot
KONTAKT | Update ONLY - 52 MB | FULL - 40,44 GB
Ultra Real-sounding Virtual Acoustic Guitar - The true sound of Gibson® 1963 Hummingbird - includes approx. 80GB, 89,000 samples.
Hummingbird enables you to compose and create powerful and natural acoustic guitar
tracks that imitate real acoustic guitar playing!


Incredible real-time playability - Hummingbird SPI (Super Performance Instrument)
With Hummingbird SPI, you can play ultra realistic acoustic guitar performance in real-time. You can access various playing techniques instantly without stopping your performance and create convincing guitar tracks very quickly.

Single note, Emulated 2-strings dyad chords (minor 2nd, 2nd, minor 3rd, major 3rd, 4th, flat 5th, 5th, #5th, 6th, 7th, maj7th, octave), Sampled real chords (octave, major, minor, 7th, m7, maj7, add9, sus4, 9th, m7(9), maj7(9), dim7, aug, open / low chords, etc.), Emulated chords (major, minor, 7th, m7, maj7, add9, sus4, 7sus4, 9th, #9, m7(9), maj7(9), dim, dim7,m7-5, aug, open / low chords, etc.), User chords (You can make any chords using User Chord Editor.), Realtime Hammer-on & Pull-off, Realtime Legato Slide, Vibrato, Trill, Picking Tremolo, Mute & picking noise, Gliss down, Natural Harmonics, Percussion, Fret noise, Pick stop noise, Bridge mute noise, Release noise, Position change noise, Special FX, etc..

You can play ultra realistic acoustic guitar performance in real-time!

Fretboard Monitor
The SPI automatically selects a proper string / fret position depending on the situation. You can also change the string manually by key switches. The Fretboard Monitor visualizes the current fret position / playing technique you are playing.

Intelligent Instrument Key Switch with chord recognition
You can instantly select an instrument (articulation) using the Instrument Select Key Switches. All the instruments can be assigned to any key switches and you can create your own key switch mapping. The key switches have a chord recognition feature that enables you to select a chord instrument by not only hitting a key that the chord is assigned, but also by hitting the chord notes in the key switch range. In other words, you don’t need to memorize the key switches for the chord instruments. Just hold the chord notes in the key switch range, and you are ready to play the chord.

Real sampled chords
The extensive number of the ‘real’ chord samples makes your guitar tracks very convincing. (octave, major, minor, 7th, m7, maj7, add9, sus4, 9th, m7(9), maj7(9), dim7, aug, open / low chords, etc.) Hummingbird includes the huge number of ‘real’ recorded (in other words, ‘pre-recorded’ or ‘pre-played’) chord samples. You can instantly access the various types of guitar chords. Prominy’s guitar libraries are the only ones that include such a huge number of the real chord samples.

Real emulated chords
Though Hummingbird already includes a huge number of real chord samples, more chords (and more chord shape variations per each chord) are available with the emulated chords. Our unique recording / programming make it possible for you to get a realistic chord sound that is close to a real sampled chord sound, even if you are playing emulated chords.

minor 2nd-dyad , maj2nd-dyad, minor 3rd-dyad, major 3rd-dyad, 4th-dyad, flat 5th-dyad, 5th-dyad, #5th-dyad, 6th-dyad, 7th-dyad, maj7th-dyad, octave-dyad, major, minor, 7th, m7, maj7, add9, sus4, 7sus4, 9th, #9, m7(9), maj7(9), dim, dim7, m7(b5), aug, open / low chords, etc.

User Chord
User Chord Editor enables you to build your own chord shapes and make any chords you like. Each string is fully customizable and you can configure how the string is played using the User Chord Editor. (For example, normal sustain or mute or picking noise, always play open string regardless the fret position, strum the string or not, root string, etc.)

A large number of guitar percussion samples
Hummingbird includes a larger number of percussion samples (hitting, tapping, knocking the various part of the guitar’s body) that enable you to play and create percussive and rhythmic guitar tracks.

Customizable Strum Key
As well as the User Chord Editor, you can configure how each string is played when you hit the Strum Keys and the Normal Key.

Arpeggio Key
Arpeggio Key is a dedicated key for each string. When a chord instrument is selected, each note of the chord is automatically assigned to the Arpeggio Key for the string so you can play arpeggio with the keys.

*This is not a so-called ‘Arpeggiator’. This is a feature that enables you to play a certain note (string) of the chord individually.

True stereo recording
The samples were recorded using three microphones; a pair of small diaphragm microphones for stereo recording, and one large diaphragm microphone for monaural recording. As a stereo option for the large diaphragm microphone, a Double-Tracking instrument is available (see below).

Double-Tracking
In addition to the stereo recorded samples that capture a natural stereo sound, Double-Tracking instruments are available as another option to get a stereo sound. ‘Double-Tracking’ is a technique that is frequently used in recording guitar tracks. It gives the guitar track a nice, wide-spread stereo images and thickness. With Hummingbird SPI, you can reproduce it very easily just by loading the double-tracking instruments. No identical samples are played simultaneously in both channels. You don’t need a stereo delay or tweaking your midi data to emulate the double-tracking.

Realtime Legato Slide / Realtime Hammer-on & Pull-off
With Hummingbird’s Realtime Legato Slide feature using ‘real’ legato samples, you are able to get perfectly real expressions of the human finger’s legato slide that cannot be reproduced with a slide emulation by changing pitch. Hammer-on & Pull-off samples are real recorded samples as well. Realtime Legato Slide is available with all the instruments including chord instruments except FX instruments and Percussions. Realtime Hammer-on&Pull-off is available with single note instrument.

Auto Stroke Detection
With the SPI’s Auto Stroke Detection feature, SPI automatically detects the current beat position and identify proper stroke direction (down or up). There are several stroke detection modes and you can also control stroke direction manually.

NKS (Native Kontrol Standard®) ready
Hummingbird officially supports NKS (Native Kontrol Standard®) that allows for intuitive and seamless interaction between Hummingbird and KOMPLETE KONTROL and MASCHINE hardware. You can control major parameters via KOMPLETE KONTROL S series keyboard / Maschine hardware and software. KOMPLETE KONTROL S series keyboard’s Light Guide shows available key switches, playable key ranges of each articulation.
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ver.1.22
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[New]
- User chord shape editor can preview chords higher than the 5th fret by clicking the left / right arrow buttons.

- User chord shape editor displays fret numbers and note names.

- User chord shape editor displays the available Normal Key Range of the user chord and the note name of the Normal Key to play the chord on the selected preview position.

[Fixed]
- The picture of the pick on the Fretboard Monitor is not displayed correctly in some situations. That has been fixed.


This update requires Kontakt Player (or Kontakt FULL) 5.8.1 or later!


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comments

  Resident 20.09.2017 20 322
+1713
Always amazed by this demo video.
Do they have demo midi available anywhere?
  Member 18.10.2020 28
+4
Can't thank you enough for this. I missed out the last time it was posted, and besides I really didn't have the storage space at the time anyway. I've been waiting and hoping for ages to be able to try this out and see if my setup can handle this before I actually buy it. You've definitively made my lockdown year bearable! Many many thanks
  Member 26.12.2015 117
+32
Do they have demo midi available anywhere?

I hope someone posts
  Member 22.06.2020 22
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  Releaser 22.10.2007 1914 1195
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ViP Team - true legends stays in history!
  Member 22.06.2020 22
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  Resident 21.06.2011 4 923
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I was really reluctant about this one -- it's Prominy, so I was sure the controls would suck, and it's 43 GBs, so it's waaaaay too big to justify putting on my drive, but I figured I'd take it for a test drive. Couldn't have been more wrong. After five minutes of messing around with it, I was sold. There's a steep learning curve with the keyswitches and whatnot, but there's also an incredible amount of innovation. Mod wheel to control muting?!? Auto-sensing up and down strokes? Double tracking acoustic guitar? Damn you, Prominy! You just filled up my hard drive!
  Resident 30.01.2014 7 2163
+364
Thanks a TON, Talula!!
  Resident 21.01.2014 46 1514
+4318
Woahhh damn I remember sharing the initial release of this on here back in 2016 haha. Funny I actually long forgot about this library's existence and don't think I ever used it, which is sad considering the amount of money I paid for it lol. I hope someone who has downloaded it online has at least used it for something in their songs. I really hope it went to use somewhere
MOIST.

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