Audiomodern Opacity II £88.99

Craving expressive guitar textures, but lacking the nouse to conjure them? This suite presents a six-string universe ready to explore…

Whether it’s moodily swelling, emotively plucking or chordally washing into our ears, cinematic guitar is a mainstay across the modern soundtracking world. Though this playing style is also prevalent in ambient music, it’s really in the generation of score-ready textures for working composers that Audiomodern pitch Opacity II – a highly manipulable guitar sample player, loaded up with some exquisitely well-recorded axe work.

Comprising 14 sessions delicately performed by Washington-based Terre Grande guitarist Justin Hodges, Opacity II’s recording quality is the first thing that hits us after loading up the software within Kontakt. Sumptuous arpeggios, gloomy swells and echo-sodden notes abound as we cycle through these preset Sessions. Each of the 14 tempo and key-defined Sessions contains four groups of looped performances, comprising elements such as Chords, Phrases, Sequences and Melodic Textures. Each of these groups have 12 different recordings of different approaches to these sound types that all gel together harmonically. This variation can be further increased by dragging across the individual sounds from other Sessions, too.