Fractured: Prepared Acoustic Guitar is an innovative new collection of instruments

featuring creative and esoteric samples and manipulations of various acoustic guitars.

Following the tradition begun by Violence, Vir2’s virtual dismembering of a solo violin,

Fractured features 2.3GB of compressed samples and more than one hundred new

instruments with numerous variations and effects built into each. Each patch

features the organic goodness of the acoustic guitar, but stretches its timbre in new

directions to create previously unheard musical effects. Drum kits were made from such

varied techniques as hitting the guitar with a mallet, scraping strings with

fingernails, cardboard, or copper, and for one patch, rice was poured over the guitar.

Long evolving pads were built from acoustic guitar samples that blur the line between

electronic and acoustic. Fractured also features playable and dynamic rhythmic loops

and patterns, multitimbral arpeggiated creations, huge cinematic impacts, gritty electronic

drums, gnarly and etherial melodic instruments, and more innovative sonic goodness.

Depending on the instrument loaded, appropriate knobs for tweaking the instrument appear

in the interface, such as:

– Quantization

– Envelope controls (attack and release)

– Stereo spread

– Lopass and hipass filters

– Layer blend controls

– Effects (reverb, delay, drive, flanger, vibrato, rotator, wobble, and others)

– Autopan control

– Repeater