12 Strings • 14 Channels • Full Control
Explore creative sonic string theory for Kontakt 8 Player and NKS2
Authentic Sounds, Endless Possibilities
We’ve captured over a thousand pure electric guitar notes across every string, delivering two essential performance styles: lush sustains and punchy palm-mutes.
Switch seamlessly between layers, engage the scale-aware arpeggiator for instant patterns, or build ambient soundscapes. Guitarocracy effortlessly transforms your keyboard ideas into precise, authentic guitar performances—giving producers and composers that genuine edge without the learning curve.
Perfect For
- 🎹 Expressive MIDI Performers — Translate keys to strings instantly.
- 👁️ Visual Learners — See scales and music theory come alive in real time.
- 🎛️ Sound Designers — Explore unique textures impossible on a physical instrument.
What to hear the sounds of Guitarocracy?
Unleash patterns physically impossible on a traditional guitar. Dive into custom scales, automated harmonic lanes, and evolving generative modes.
This premium, multi-sampled instrument brings five velocity layers, per-string expression, and 128+ tweakable parameters right to your fingertips via any MIDI or NKS controller.
Don’t just play—explore. Use the Real-Time Theory Engine to swap scales on the fly and discover inspiring melodies you never knew were there.
Core Features
- Multi‑sampled DI electric guitar
- 5 velocity layers for sustain, palm‑mute, and noise
- 14‑channel architecture
- Per‑string envelopes (AHDSR)
- Built‑in effects
- Advanced 8‑Step Arpeggiator (Dual‑Group, Multi‑Lane, Generative)
- Real‑time fretboard
- 128+ tweakable controls
- Full‑module randomization
- Kontakt 8 Player compatibility
- NKS2-Ready
How Guitarocracy Stands Out
Guitarocracy breaks past the barriers that bound traditional guitar plugins. It is a live performance instrument built for deep expression, instant inspiration, and infinite tonal variation.
- 🌌 A Generative Arpeggiator Unlike Any Other — Explore 12 intelligent playback modes, custom scales, and automated harmonic lanes for effortless melodic movement.
- 🪵 Pure Wood and Steel — Every note on every string is captured through its total natural decay. No loops, no artificial fades—just raw, resonant realism.
Master Your Creative Workflow
Go beneath the surface. Guitarocracy provides deep, effortless control over every layer of your sound without ever pulling you out of your creative zone.
Shape your sound in real time, customize your performance feel, and unlock advanced sculpting tools that respond instantly to your control.
When Impossible Becomes Possible
Generative Performance at Your Fingertips.
Explore the Hidden Performance Logic
A modular guitar instrument built for real‑time creativity.
Forget traditional articulation switching. Guitarocracy’s Key Function System turns your MIDI controller into a live performance console.
Toggle individual strings on/off for both Sustain and Palm-Mute channels. “Play the mixer” live to introduce rhythmic gaps or carve space in dense arrangements.
Take command of your expression instantly. Isolate all Sustains with one keypress (C#1) or switch entirely to Palm Mutes (D1) without breaking your performance flow.
The Creative Spark. One press instantly re-rolls every hidden module—envelopes, effects, and internal routing—generating a brand-new sonic landscape from scratch.
Flip the virtual fretboard between right-handed and left-handed views instantly. The Real-Time Theory Engine dynamically mirrors your physical perspective.
Guitarocracy’s arpeggiator isn’t a loop machine — it’s a living, evolving performance system.
Generate organic variations that feel like a human player exploring a riff. It moves intelligently within your chosen scale for effortless musical ideas.
Route the MIDI output directly to a track in your DAW. Capture one-of-a-kind, evolving performances that will never repeat exactly the same way twice.
Perfect for ambient textures, shifting riffs, and generative composition that breathes life into static arrangements.
The on-screen fretboard acts as a second independent layer of performance. Triggered notes run independently from your MIDI keyboard while still inheriting global timing and shaping, feeling like playing two instruments at once.
Override natural decay instantly. Turn long, ringing sustains into tight, percussive stabs, or create gated rhythmic accents live without touching your DAW’s MIDI editor.
Sculpt the front of your sound. Skip pick noise for soft, pad-like entrances, or start deeper into the sample to generate swelling, cinematic textures.
Screen-triggered drones, arpeggiated riffs, and keyboard leads all share a central velocity channel, ensuring your entire performance maintains completely consistent tone and dynamics.
Interactive Fretboard: Play Beyond the Keyboard
Guitarocracy isn’t just a MIDI instrument — it’s a responsive, touch-compatible performance surface that acts as a second independent layer of musical play.
- ♾️ Infinite Sustain — Tap a note on the screen to latch it. It plays its full natural decay without forcing you to hold down a physical key.
- 🎛️ Manual Sculpting — Fire tight stabs or long, swelling drones with your fingers or mouse while your hands play leads on your keyboard controller.
- ⚡ Arp-Aware Timing — Screen-triggered notes instantly respect your global Sample Offset, Note Duration, and Arpeggiator clock for flawless rhythmic cohesion.
From MIDI Chords to Virtuoso Performances in Seconds.
Command Every String with the Ultimate Guitar VST
Creative Use Cases
- 🌌 Live Pad Generation — Pin a drone using the on-screen fretboard, then slowly shorten its tail using Sample Duration to build tension, create evolving ambient beds, or transition between arrangement sections.
- 🥁 Percussive Layering — Let the arpeggiator handle the main rhythm while you “tap in” manual accents pre-shaped with Offset and Duration. Add punch, syncopation, and movement without muddying your mix.
Design Tone Without Limits
Guitarocracy isn’t a single guitar — it’s a modular electric guitar engine capable of generating thousands of unique tones.
Create, don’t just play.
Turn simple MIDI chords into expressive guitar parts with a scale-aware arpeggiator, real-time fretboard visualization, and powerful randomization tools. Instantly generate new sounds, patterns, and ideas — or fine-tune every detail with precision.
Whether you’re producing, composing, or learning, Guitarocracy gives you a completely new way to interact with guitar.
Specifications
- Product Type: Kontakt Instrument / Library
- Compatibility: Kontakt 8 or Kontakt Player 8+ (NKS2-ready)
- Download Size: 2 GB
- System Requirements: 16 GB RAM recommended
- VST, AU, AAX compatible
- Windows & macOS (Intel + Apple Silicon)
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Virtual Guitar (VST) – Kontakt 8 Player Instrument
- How to Learn Guitar Fast with Guitarocracy
- Authentic Sounds, Endless Possibilities
- Virtual Guitar Instrument in a VST Plugin
- Advanced Mixing Architecture
- Advanced Per String Mixing Engine
- Built-in Effects & Tone Layers
- Per Channel Envelope Shaping
- Advanced Arpeggiator & Generative Performance Engine
- Performance Workflow
- Smart Randomization Engine
- Made for Kontakt Player and NKS
- Music Theory Visualized in Real-Time
- Why Guitarocracy?
- The Sounds of Guitarocracy
- Total Customization for Your Virtual Guitar
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Built from 30 Years of Guitar Passion
Play virtually any song via MIDI input and instantly visualize every note’s position on a dynamic virtual fretboard in real time—making it effortless to learn, perform, or record with precision.
Whether you are a student unlocking fretboard secrets, a teacher inspiring the next generation, or a virtuoso breaking creative boundaries, Guitarocracy empowers you to learn faster, teach effectively, and create beautiful music.
With hundreds of customizable controls that can all be saved as user presets, you can easily optimize, tailor, and recall your favorite custom guitar tones instantly across any production or project.
Virtual Guitar (VST) Plugin – Kontakt 8 Player Instrument
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Advanced Mixing Architecture
Go beyond the limits of traditional guitar libraries. Guitarocracy features a fully programmable, internal mixing console designed to give you absolute control over every element of your guitar signal.
Independently sculpt, pan, and automate individual strings and articulation layers in real time—delivering the precise separation and depth of an elite, multi-miked studio session directly inside your DAW.
Advanced Per-String Mixing Engine
Guitarocracy operates on a precision 14-channel architecture, giving you discrete control over every single string and articulation layer.
The 14-Channel Layout
- 🎸 12 String & Articulation Channels — 6 individual strings split across 2 dedicated performance layers (Lush Sustains + Punchy Palm-Mutes).
- 🔊 1 Dedicated Guitar Noise Channel — Dial in or automate realistic natural handling noise.
- 🌌 1 Dedicated Reverb Return Channel — Control the spatial depth and ambient return of your global space.
Stereo Channel Mixing & Routing Logic
Every individual string channel feeds a fully custom layout, giving you total mixing flexibility before the signal hits the main stereo output path:
- 📐 Per-Channel Envelope Tuning — Every individual channel features its own dedicated AHDSR envelope to shape transient response and decay independently.
- 🎚 Independent Volume & Pan — Carve out unique stereo spacing or automate panning per string for massive, wide arrangements.
- 🔇 Solo, Mute & Metering — Isolate specific strings or visually monitor your dynamics with real-time accuracy.
- 🎚️ Master Stereo Effects Chain — All channels sum into a dedicated stereo effects path, running a high-quality serial chain in exact studio order: Compressor –> Cry Wah –> Big Fuzz Distortion.
- 🌌 Spatial Send Control — Route your processed stereo signal into the master Reverb via a dedicated send-and-return loop before final audio output.
Shape every detail of your guitar performance with precision normally only possible in a full studio multi mic mix.
Per-Channel Envelope Shaping
Unlock absolute acoustic control. Every individual string and articulation channel features its own independent, studio-grade AHDSR envelope generator.
Instead of applying a blanket setting to the entire instrument, Guitarocracy lets you shape the transient behavior, note duration, and tail release of each individual string layer completely independently.
AHDSR Parameter Controls
- ⚡ Attack & Hold — Sharpen the initial transient punch for aggressive picking, or introduce slow, blooming swells.
- 📐 Decay & Sustain — Dial in immediate, percussive chugs or allow notes to ring out with natural, organic resonance.
- ⏳ Release — Perfect the tail-end damping to fit the exact pocket of your track’s tempo and groove.
Creative Production Examples
- 🎸 Tight Palm-Muted Chugs — Set an ultra-fast decay and minimal release on your muted layer for clean, modern metal rhythms.
- 🌌 Ambient Cinematic Layers — Keep long, lush sustaining envelopes active on the higher strings while carving space on the lower ones.
- 🎛️ Hybrid Performance Textures — Blend a fast-decay layer with a slow-attack layer to design completely unique hybrid sounds impossible on a physical guitar.
Built-in Effects & Tone Layers
Bring your sounds to life. Once your individual string channels are blended, they feed directly into a high-grade stereo group effects path to inject instant character, grit, and movement into your performance.
The Serial Signal Chain
- 🎛️ Studio Compressor — Smooth out your playing dynamics, glue the string layers together, and add sustained punch to clean melodies.
- 🎙️ Cry Wah — Introduce classic filter sweeps, vowel-like expression, and vintage movement that responds dynamically to your touch.
- 🔥 Big Fuzz Distortion — Drive your signal with saturated, amp-style clipping to create thick rhythmic textures or searing lead tones.
Dynamic Sonic Outcomes
Combining your per-channel envelope shapes with this master effects chain allows you to effortlessly design:
- ⚡ Dynamic Tonal Shifts — Automate the Wah or Compressor threshold to make the instrument breathe over time.
- 🌌 Layered Distortion Textures — Keep a palm-muted chug layer relatively clean while driving the sustain layer into absolute fuzz chaos.
Advanced Arpeggiator & Custom Sequencing Engine
Guitarocracy features a next-generation 8-step rhythm and time designer. Instead of rigid, repetitive loops, you have an open canvas to sculpt completely custom phrases, independent time offsets, and intelligent harmonic lanes.
The Engine Specs
- 📐 Dual-Group Transpose Architecture — A single, powerful 8-step sequencer split into two pitch automation zones (Steps 1–4 and Steps 5–8). Each zone features its own master group transpose control ($\pm36$ semitones), allowing you to instantly shift relative chord structures with a single slider.
- 🧠 Intelligent Note Selection (Musical Logic) — Select from 200+ scales and 84 modes. Rather than relying on chaotic, unmusical randomness, Guitarocracy utilizes a proprietary musical algorithm to automatically adapt and select smart, non-repetitive note paths that stay perfectly in key.
- ⏳ Elastic Time & Rhythmic Offsets — Break free from the grid. Combine global host sync (1/4, 1/8, 1/16) with independent per-step duration values and global time dilation to stretch, compress, or micro-offset your timing for completely humanized phrasing.
- 🛑 Per-Step Deep Sculpting — Fine-tune every individual step with dedicated interval (pitch) values, custom note durations, and independent step-muting.
- 🌊 3-Lane Velocity Layering — Command your dynamics across three separate, dedicated velocity paths: one for the main performance layer, one for the sub-octave (8vb), and one for the upper-octave (8va) accents.
Performance Workflow
Play chords naturally while designing your own rhythms. Guitarocracy keeps your physical keyboard inputs completely independent from the automatic note and scale generation.
- 🎹 Intelligent Input Separation — You focus on playing your chord progressions via MIDI, while the internal engine handles the intricate note layouts, harmonic scale tuning, and octave tracking.
- ✍️ Custom Pattern Generation — Build your own completely unique patterns and grooves from scratch using the highly customizable 8-step grid instead of relying on restrictive loop presets.
- 🛠️ Built for Any Project — Use it as a traditional playback instrument for direct lead control, an ambient pad generator for thick background textures, or an automated generative session partner that fills rhythmic gaps in your track.
Smart Randomization Engine
Shatter creative blocks instantly. Guitarocracy features a powerful, multi-tiered smart randomization system designed to deliver immediate inspiration without chaotic, unmusical noise.
- 🎛️ Per-Module Randomization — Dial in targeted variations by re-rolling specific elements—like just your custom 8-step arpeggiator pattern, specific AHDSR, Big Fuzz, and Reverb settings—while leaving your core tone untouched.
- ⚡ Instant Sound Generation — Generate entirely new, production-ready user presets in seconds with a single master click, effortlessly speeding up your creative workflow and reducing technical barriers.
Guitarocracy is more than Virtual Guitar more than a Music Theory Fretboard
Made for Kontakt Player and NKS
Built for the industry standard. Guitarocracy is an officially licensed, NKS-ready library designed exclusively for Native Instruments’ free Kontakt 8 Player (and full Kontakt 8+). It delivers seamless ecosystem integration right out of the box.
Advanced Hardware & DAW Automation
💡 System Note: While individual channel AHDSR shapes can be deeply adjusted and saved within your user presets, they utilize a shared master control layout. For timeline-based DAW automation recording, we recommend mapping and automating the master mixing levels, independent panning, and active effects paths.
- 🎚️ DAW Automation Lanes — Draw precision curve lines directly inside Pro Tools, Logic, Ableton, or Cubase to automate string mixes, mutes, articulations, or fx over time.
- ⌨️ NKS Hardware Integration — Enjoy instant parameter mapping, custom color-coded light guide feedback, and effortless browsing on Kontrol S-Series keyboards and Maschine hardware.
- 🎛️ MIDI Controller Mapping — Instantly assign any hardware slider or mod-wheel to control real-time scale changes, dynamic filter sweeps, and generative performance adjustments on the fly.
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Music Theory, Visualized in Real Time
Unlock the secrets of the fretboard directly inside your DAW. At the heart of Guitarocracy is an intelligent, real-time music theory engine featuring an interactive virtual fretboard that maps over 140 custom scales and 84 distinct modes instantly.
No more guessing note names, hunting for chord shapes, or scribbling down paper charts. Whether you are inputting live MIDI notes from your keyboard or drawing them into your DAW’s piano roll, every single interval translates instantly into flawless string positions and fret locations with hyper-realistic visual precision.
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Why Guitarocracy?
- 🎓 For Students — Dive into interactive fretboard visualizations to study scales and modes at your own pace, drastically accelerating your fingerboard familiarity from day one.
- 🏫 For Teachers — Exploit a powerful, real-time visual tool for demonstrating music theory in lessons, keeping students deeply engaged while making abstract concepts instantly intuitive.
- ⚡ For Virtuosos & Producers — Harness advanced scale structures, deep customization, and generative sequencing to dominate studio sessions, scoring projects, and modern tracking setups.
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Total Customization: Shape Your Visual Vibe
Your instrument should match your creative energy. Guitarocracy features a completely customizable graphical user interface, allowing you to fluidly alter the guitar body color and interface theme to fit your studio’s mood.
Colors go far beyond mere aesthetics—they instantly shift your mindset, influence your focus, and directly inspire the type of music you create:
- 🔥 Fiery Reds — Spark high-octane energy, perfect for tracking intense, aggressive rhythms and searing lead lines.
- 🌊 Serene Blues & Aquas — Foster deep, introspective focus ideal for ambient soundscapes, lush swells, and complex chord extensions.
- 🌿 Organic Greens — Ground your creative flow for natural, clean rhythmic beds and experimental acoustic-style textures.
- 🌌 Sleek Blacks — Unleash a mysterious, modern power tailored for heavy cinematic scoring and dark, driving electronic production.
