Big Fish Audio - Apollo: Cinematic Guitars - Capture the ambient guitar sound design revolution
Skip to content
 

Final Hours! 50% Off Top Libraries! Our Green Tag Sale Ends Tonight. Shop Now

Final Hours! 50% Off Top Libraries!
Our Green Tag Sale Ends Tonight. Shop Now

Vir2 Instruments

Apollo: Cinematic Guitars

Capture the ambient guitar sound design revolution
Apollo: Cinematic Guitars - Capture the ambient guitar sound design revolution
Instrument Type:
Guitar/Bass
Related Instrument Types:
Sound Design , and Texture/Atmosphere
$299.95
$299.95
$299.95
INCLUDED FORMATS:
Kontakt, Plug-in, Kontakt Player
  Please make a selection above
QUICK DETAILS:
  • Instrument

Apollo: Cinematic Guitars Bundle

Vir2 Instruments
For more information about Apollo: Cinematic Guitars, visit Vir2 Instruments.

Sound On Sound Magazine"5/5! You can muster some beautiful conventional guitar sounds from it, but it also impresses as a tool for sound design. Very cinematic, very guitar, very good." - Sound On Sound
Ask Audio"Great for indie-folk, sample library, television, and film composition. Amazing patches, amazing workflows."
- Ask.Audio
Computer Music Magazine"10/10! Apollo gives the ambient/chillout/soundtrack producer a source of deeply manipulable guitar-based sounds that are endlessly diverse and expressive."
- Computer Music Magazine
Music Tech Magazine"8/10! This is a great tool for anyone working with scores who wants to bring a new level of atmosphere to their productions."  - Music Tech Magazine
Electronic Musician Magazine"Vir2's sound design team has released a focused, yet vast collection of guitar-driven beauty."
- Electronic Musician Magazine
Sample Library Review"5/5! Apollo is a beautifully recorded, easy to use library with loads of MIDI controller points that may leave my guitar amp collecting dust in the corner."
- Sample Library Review
Sounds And Gear "4.5/5! The first thing I noticed about this library is how real it sounded, not that other libraries sound fake, but each sound retains the feel and character of a real guitar." - Sounds And Gear
AudioFanzine "Apollo is significantly different from other guitar libraries and one that’s well worth exploring."  - AudioFanzine
Audio Spotlight "The library will be a great addition to my palette of sounds for giving tracks some nice background glue."
- The Audio Spotlight



From the award-winning creators of Electri6ity, Acou6tics, and MOJO Horns, Vir2 Instruments presents Apollo: Cinematic Guitars, a revolutionary new guitar-based sound design instrument. Created for all genres of music production, Apollo offers five innovative categories packed with features to enhance the creative process, as well as save time and increase productivity. The goal of Apollo is to provide the modern composer with real guitar samples, real strums, and real sounds made straight from the best guitars, the best effects pedals, the best amps, and the best signal flow available. Vir2 worked with some of the industry's best composers and producers to bring you a comprehensive collection of sounds, giving you exactly what you need for your next composition.

Apollo provides five unprecedented categories which will generate endless opportunities for creativity. These categories are: Ambient Designer, Swells, Pads, Phrase Builder, and Instruments.



AMBIENT DESIGNER


Apollo GUI

The Ambient Designer category delivers an experimental approach to sound design by engineering various tonal and non tonal sounds to create custom guitar-based atmospheres. Sounds include the utilization of various noises and sounds made solely with the guitar. Sounds included are guitar plucks, phrases, violin bow on strings, fingers sliding on strings, white noise, amp buzz, and much more. Each of these sounds can be combined, mixed, and panned to create the perfect atmosphere for compositions across all genres.

Apollo GUI

SWELLS


Apollo GUI

The Swells category is a vast collection of sounds giving you the option to trigger strums of both high and low iterations of major and minor chords for each sound. Individual notes were also sampled per sound in order to give the user the ability to create their own voicings.

Apollo GUI

PADS


Apollo GUI

The Pads category puts sound design into the hands of the user. Apollo features the ability to load and mix two unique sounds, allowing for the creation of thousands of unique guitar based pads.

Apollo GUI

PHRASE BUILDER


Apollo GUI

The Phrase Builder category places common phrase options at the user's fingertips. These types of simple phrases underscore much of what is used for film and television. Vir2 worked with top television guitarists to create an unparalleled approach for combining these phrases in such a way that a user can effectively build their own performance.

INSTRUMENTS


Apollo GUI

The Instruments category is an asset which allows users to create simple performances on the fly with various instruments. The instruments included are acoustic guitar, acoustic guitar harmonics, electric guitar harmonics, electric bass, electric guitar, and sitar.
System Requirements:
Kontakt Player 5.6.8 or higher
• 4 GB RAM or more
• 16 GB hard drive space once installed

General:
    • Over 22 GB uncompressed
    • Real samples, strums, and sounds made straight from the guitar
    • Samples from the best guitars, amps, and signal chain available
    • Immersive user experience
    • 5 innovative categories created for effective composition and endless creativity

Swells:
    • 129 patches sampled with unique combinations of guitars, pedals, and amps
    • Over 13 GB of uncompressed samples
    • Chose between chords and notes
    • Swell speed and LFO controls

Pads:
    • Utilize Apollo's dual pad engine for creative sound design
    • 70 unique pads
    • Create up to 4,900 pad combinations with blending
    • Guitar based pads created by renowned sound designers for The Dark Knight, Inception,
      Pirates of the Caribbean, Modern Warfare, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and more
    • ADSR and LFO controls
    • 88 preset patches

Ambient Designer:
    • 538 organic guitar sounds and phrases
    • Reverse each sample for an entirely new sound
    • Millions of possible ambient beds
    • Custom mixer page for in-depth mixing

Phrase Builder:
    • 26 patches
    • Each patch contains multiple groups that trigger different phrases within the same key
    • Easily create unique performances

Instruments:
    • 8 multi­-sampled instruments
    • 46 preset patches
    • Up to 3 velocity layers and 5 round robins
    • Electric Guitar 1, Electric Guitar 2, Electric Guitar Harmonics, Electric Guitar "Air" Harmonics,
      Electric Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Acoustic Guitar Harmonics, and Sitar


Download Sizes


Version Compressed Download Size
 
Kontakt Player/Kontakt/Plug-in Download includes
  Installation Instructions:  
  Apollo Pt.1:  2 GB
  Apollo Pt.2:  2 GB
  Apollo Pt.3:  2 GB
  Apollo Pt.4:  2 GB
  Apollo Pt.5:  2 GB
  Apollo Pt.6:  2 GB
  Apollo Pt.7:  2 GB
  Apollo Pt.8:  329 MB

*When ordering the download product from Big Fish Audio you will be given one or more links for each of your product purchases. The links will be active for 24 hours. During this time you should download the file and expand it. You can return to your Big Fish Audio account at any time and download your products. You will find your products in the "My Products" area of your account page.



License Agreement


The Following End User License Agreement is included with Apollo: Cinematic Guitars. This License is only valid for the individual who has purchased an unopened, new and lawfully made copy of Apollo: Cinematic Guitars from a dealer or distributor authorized by Big Fish Audio.

"The samples contained herein are licensed, not sold to you, the individual end user, by Vir2 Instruments. This non-exclusive, non-transferable license is granted only to the individual end user who has purchased an unopened, new, and lawfully made copy of this product from a dealer or distributor authorized by Vir2 Instruments. All samples remain the property of Vir2 Instruments and are licensed only for use in the creation of a live or recorded performance that includes the licensed samples as part of a derivative musical work created by the licensed end user. This license expressly forbids resale, rental, loan, gift, or transfer of these samples in any format or via any medium, except as part of a derivative musical work. The samples may not be included, whether unmodified or as part of a derivative work, in any sample library product. Any unlicensed usage will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible under the law."


Ask.Audio

If you’re itching to bring in some ethereal, ambient and beautiful guitars into your tool belt for film composition, ambient orchestrations and television sound tracks, you really should take a look at Apollo, a new, amazing guitar, and effect library from Vir2. This...

Read Full Review

AudioFanzine

By combining acoustic and electric sound-production techniques, electric guitars and basses are the modern world’s most prevalent electro-acoustic instruments. Their uniquely musical timbral qualities ensure their enduring popularity as each new generation of guitarists...

Read Full Review

Electronic Musician

Although many instruments can be forged into pads and other atmospheric sounds, it’s hard to beat the chaotic behavior of guitar strings. Vir2’s Apollo Cinematic Guitars is a new 22GB sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt 5.3 that takes advantage of the...

Read Full Review

MusicTech Magazine | 8/10

Guitars are capable of much more creative sound design than some people realise, and they feature heavily in many soundtracks, whether in raw or heavily processed...

Read Full Review

Sample Library Review | 5/5

Apollo has launched into orbit leaving other textural guitar libraries staring at it's contrail. I am a guitar player so I don't say this lightly: Apollo is a beautifully recorded easy to use library with loads of midi controller points that may leave my guitar amp...

Read Full Review

Sound On Sound | 5/5

The content is organised into five sections. The Instruments group provides 11 different ‘playable’ instruments with multiple velocity layers and round-robin samples. This covers acoustic and electric guitar and bass, nylon string guitar, mandolin, banjo and sitar as...

Read Full Review

Sounds And Gear | 4.5/5

What is Apollo: Cinematic Guitars? It’s a brand new cinematic guitar library from Vir2 Instruments for Kontakt. The idea behind it is to provide you access to high quality pads, ambiences, swells, and chords. In addition to the sound design stuff you also get traditional...

Read Full Review

The Audio Spotlight

Vir2 Instruments, the creator of such sample libraries as Mojo: Horn Section, Electri6ity, Violence and Q has entered the cinematic guitar ring with a new contender named Apollo. But instead of trying to compete with the likes of Cinematic Guitars from Sample Logic, Vir2...

Read Full Review

Tutorial Videos


OVERVIEW



IN-DEPTH WALKTHROUGH



SWELLS WALKTHROUGH



AMBIENT DESIGNER WALKTHROUGH



PADS WALKTHROUGH



PHRASE BUILDER WALKTHROUGH



INSTRUMENTS WALKTHROUGH

Back to top
history
clear list
opener
close