Description

Three-Body Tech Heavier7Strings


Bring Heavy Metal Back to Your Music

Three-Body Technology proudly presents Heavier7Strings, a real-time playable sample-based virtual instrument that brings back Heavy Metal to your productions. Equipped 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 a 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

  • 19 Heavy Metal Effect Modules: Screamer, EQ12, AMP, Flanger, Pingpong delay, etc.
  • 16 Amps with styles from heavy metal to clean sound, processing sample rate up to 8X
  • 66 cabinet IRs, four can be mixed simultaneously with different delay, volume, and phasing
  • Preset manager allows you to store your own effect presets, along with 200 factory 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.

  • 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

Samples and Sampler

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

  • 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

A built-in DSP engine named THRASH (Tonal/Harmonic Reconstruction and Shaping) is included in Heavier7Strings to provide various tone adjusting functions:

  • +∞RR: in addition to 16x recorded RR at maximum, random timbre and envelope changes are applied on samples to provide more vivid RR playing
  • True doubling: two guitars playing simultaneously on the left and right channel, each has individual random note delay and RR selection
  • Sample-based LFO: modulate sample pitch with pitch curves extracted from real-world vibrato playing. This technique is adjustable in both degree and frequency and is more realistic than just modulating the pitch by sine/ triangle wave
  • Dynamically recoups the formant during pitch-bend
  • Digitally emulated tone knob and pickup switch
  • Adjustable tension and resonance

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 fretboard position
  • Up/down picking
  • Strumming: deduce complete chord from part of composing notes
  • Trigger power chords from root note

System Requirements

  • MacOS 10.9 Mavericks and above
  • Windows 7 and above (32 or 64-bit)
  • Intel Core Duo / AMD Athlon CPU 64 or better
  • 4GB RAM or more
  • 10GB free storage space

Plugin Formats

Mac: AAX Native, AU, VST2 (all 64-bit only)

Windows: AAX Native (64-bit), VST2 (32 and 64-bit)

size chest(in.) waist(in.) hips(in.)
XS 34-36 27-29 34.5-36.5
S 36-38 29-31 36.5-38.5
M 38-40 31-33 38.5-40.5
L 40-42 33-36 40.5-43.5
XL 42-45 36-40 43.5-47.5
XXL 45-48 40-44 47.5-51.5