Orange Tree Samples Kontakt Libraries Bundle – Evolution Guitars & Basses for $49.99

Programmed guitars usually announce themselves within two bars. Orange Tree Samples built its reputation on the opposite: Kontakt guitar and bass libraries so deeply sampled and intelligently scripted that listeners simply hear a player. This bundle gathers the Evolution series and more into one collection — a regular $1,900 value on the board at $49.99. That is a $1,850 saving, roughly 97% off, on the string section your productions have been missing.

The Guitar Shelf

The electric line covers every era a session could demand. Evolution Vintage Gent delivers the classic hollowbody tone of British rock. Evolution Strawberry is the versatile all-rounder for pop, funk and rock. Evolution Rock Standard brings the legendary single-cut roar, while Evolution Django Jazz recreates swing-era gypsy jazz in the spirit of Django Reinhardt. Evolution Infinity is the studio-grade texture guitar for ambient and cinematic work, Evolution Jumbo 12 shimmers with rich 12-string acoustic tone, and Evolution Baritone Electric goes low and dark. The roots instruments are here too: Evolution Clawhammer Banjo for authentic Americana and Evolution Mandolin for bright folk pluck.

The Bass Shelf

Low end gets the same respect. Evolution Vintage Violin Bass captures the classic short-scale warmth, Evolution Roundwound Bass covers the bright, modern electric sound, and Evolution Flatwound Bass delivers the smooth tone jazz and soul sessions live on. Between the guitars and basses, the bundle spans rock, pop, jazz, country, cinematic scoring, funk, bluegrass and soul without reaching outside the collection.

Why It Plays Like a Player

The secret is the scripting as much as the sampling. Multiple articulations — legato, sustains, mutes, slides, harmonics, chords and more — are layered across multi-dynamic samples with round-robin variation, so repeated notes never machine-gun. The engine handles natural fret positioning, a dedicated strumming engine and automatic chord detection, which means a keyboard part or a sequenced line comes out sounding performed. For composers scoring film and games, producers building tracks without a guitarist on call, and songwriters demoing ideas at 2 a.m., it is the closest thing to hiring the session player. Everything is royalty-free for commercial use.

The Deal, Plainly

Around a dozen flagship stringed-instrument libraries, a $1,900 regular total, priced at $49.99. Per library, that is roughly the cost of a set of strings — for instruments that never need restringing. This is the largest percentage saving in this batch of the board, and it buys permanent, professional tools rather than a month of access. If guitars or basses appear anywhere in your music, the maths settles the argument.

For Every Session You Will Ever Book

Picture the calls this bundle answers. A rock track needs a single-cut roar and a hollowbody jangle in the bridge: Rock Standard and Vintage Gent. A country session wants banjo and mandolin without a specialist player in the room: Clawhammer and Evolution Mandolin. A film cue needs an ambient guitar wash that never repeats: Infinity, with its studio-grade textural sampling. A jazz demo needs the bass to walk with roundwound bite one day and flatwound smoothness the next: both are loaded. Even the 12-string acoustic shimmer that producers usually rent a guitar to capture is here in Jumbo 12. That breadth is the economic argument beneath the discount — one bundle quietly replacing an entire session-musician budget line, available at midnight, in tune, every take usable.

Specs and Compatibility

These libraries require the full version of Kontakt 5.8.1 or higher — please note they do not run in the free Kontakt Player. They work on macOS and Windows 10/11, with 4GB of RAM minimum (8GB or more recommended) and approximately 50–80GB of disk space for the full installation. Delivery is instant. Load the Vintage Gent, play a chord, and hear why sampled guitars are not supposed to sound this good — except these do.