Impact SoundWorks Rosette Club 12 String

About the Library

For decades, the acoustic 12-string has been the secret sauce holding some of your favorite songs together. Ever since George Harrison used it to open "A Hard Day's Night" for The Beatles, it's been inescapable.

You've heard it in the legendary intro to "Hotel California." It takes center stage in "Free Falling," "More Than a Feeling," and "Stairway to Heaven." It strums and shimmers throughout Woodstock psychedelia, harder classic rock, and pop songs alike, classic metal tracks from Led Zeppelin to Mastodon to Metallica, and modern hits by Lorde, Phoebe Bridgers, and Sabrina Carpenter.

It's also a staple of Americana and country music, where it's used to add shimmer and body.

For celtic and folk music, it's a natural fit anywhere you'd use a mandolin, especially a deeper bass/baritone mandolin.

When we say this guitar is versatile, we mean it. With such a strong and varied pedigree, Rosette Club 12 String was the obvious choice to round out our Rosette series.

A Classic Guitar, Recorded with Obsessive Consistency

The acoustic 12-string is a unique guitar where each primary string is paired with a second string that's tuned to the same note but a higher pitch.

This results in a bright, wide, strikingly powerful sound that functions like a natural chorus effect, rich with harmonics in a way that no amount of studio doubling with a six-string could match.

It has a particularly powerful attack, especially in heavy play that takes full advantage of the body's resonance.

For Rosette Club 12 String, we sampled a Guild F212 guitar built in 1973. It's a gorgeous vintage instrument in excellent condition with a blocky, resonant body.

We called on a working professional who we knew would have the attention to detail that such an essential instrument would require. He rigged a contraption in his LA studio to ensure consistent sound on every note across nearly 100 hours of recording.

With his microphone stands bolted into position and a special cutout to make sure he sat in the exact same spot every time, he attained a seemingly-impossible level of recording consistency. His guitar is an LA legend that has seen a lot of session work, and now Rosette Club 12 String is part of its legacy.

The Powerful Rosette Engine, Better than Ever

The Rosette line is built on the Shreddage 3.5 engine, expanded for the needs of an acoustic guitar to emulate the way experienced guitarists adjust their performance to hone in on a particular sound, choosing certain fret positions or strings to bring out specific colors or timbres. If you're already familiar with the Shreddage series, you can dive right into Rosette.
We put extra care into making Rosette Club 12 String feel naturally expressive. In addition to mutes, hammer-ons, pull-offs, noises, and harmonics, it also includes the slide-up and slide-down articulations that are necessary for authentic 12-string performance. Plentiful round robins combine with a generous selection of articulations to give you a deeply-sampled, beautifully fine-tuneable guitar.
Rosette Club 12 String is also the first library to include a new feature called Workstation Fun. Built by a keyboardist for keyboardists, it's designed for you to play with natural keyboard expressiveness, which the engine then translates automatically into a more expressive guitar performance. Play as many notes as you'd like, regardless of realism; it will still sound natural and lifelike, picking the right articulations based on the velocity of your performance.

Features

• 24 bespoke presets
• Console FX rack and mixer
• 15,000+ immaculate 24-bit samples
• Next-generation virtual guitar engine
• Unique 12-string sound
• All crucial articulations
• Poly input feature for realistic chords
• Every string sampled up to highest fret, with up to 8x RR and 5 dynamic layers