Renaxxance is a low-cost, easy-to-use nylon-string guitar (and more) library for Kontakt 4+ that is instant gratification in a box. By Dave Townsend, May 2015 Executive Overview Renaxxance is a classical nylon-string guitar sample library for Kontakt (full product only, version 4 and above), the latest product offering from Indiginus. Bottom line for the impatient reader: it’s a must-have for the faux-guitarist who doesn’t already have a top-tier nylon-string library.

I dislike the term “no-brainer”, as I personally feel that one’s brain should be engaged at all times. However, at a mere $45 let’s just say this one’s not a particularly tough decision.

About Indiginus Who is Indiginus? It’s the Florida-based enterprise of Tracy and Brenda Collins, an actual for-real mom ‘n pop operation. In case you missed the previous SoundBytes coverage of Indiginus products, here are some links you might want to check out for background: Solid State Symphony: Three Great (and Cheap) Kontakt Libraries: Sample Library Technology with Tracy Collins: After reading those articles, you will probably come away thinking that we here at SoundBytes are unapologetic Indiginus fans, and you’d be right.

We love these libraries because they’re high-quality, useful, and best of all, affordable. They also stand out in another special way: they invite playing in real time. Playing in Real Time I have deeper and more sophisticated sample libraries in my collection. But as much as I like, say, Kirk Hunter Concert Strings, I can’t imagine sitting down at a keyboard and composing with it.

Such instruments are versatile and complex building-blocks to be painstakingly engineered into a composition. Indiginus’ Solid State Symphony, on the other hand, makes me want to sit down at the keyboard and jam. In fact, more than once have I used SSS to compose a piece that was later realized with Concert Strings and other industrial-strength orchestral libraries. Collins has given us yet another instantly-playable instrument; this time it’s a nylon-string guitar. The full product name was originally “Renaxxance Epic Nylon-String Guitar”, but that was more Tracy’s wry sense of humor than a desire to further abuse the over-used adjective “Epic”. “Renaxxance Really Cool and Fun to Play Nylon String Guitar” would have been a mouthful, so now it’s called “Renaxxance Exprexxive (sic) Nylon String Guitar”. (At least he didn’t call it “cinematic”, although there are obvious cinematic applications for it).

No thanks 3 months free. Find out why Close. Indiginus Renaxxance Exprexxive Nylon String Guitar - Demo Working In Kontakt Player For Protools - Logic Pro X - Sonar X - Cubase - Fl Studio.

Epic or not, it’s a real joy to play, right out of the box. When I first got my hands on it, I set my ASIO driver for low-latency real-time playing, started up standalone Kontakt, loaded Renaxxance and hit a chord on my keyboard. I was immediately sucked in and before I knew it an hour had passed while I happily jammed away, completely forgetting that I was supposed to be reviewing the product. What makes Renaxxance so instantly accessible is the same simple trick used with Solid State Symphony and Delta Blues: velocity-based sampled articulations. Hit a key hard, and you get a natural-sounding slide.

Hit it softly and you get a mute. Enable auto-vibrato and with very little effort you’re getting a natural-sounding, believable finger-picked guitar sound with just enough finger noise and release sounds to add authenticity. It’s almost too easy. Watch Tracy playing Renaxxance live here: Slides are the Key Believable slides are essential to making a nylon-string track that’s convincing enough that a listener might not immediately guess it was sampled.