>We last featured an Impact Soundworks product in these pages when looking at one of their Shreddage range and, despite the name, the fretless bass in question wasn’t only suitable for extreme shredding. It is in fact the underlying engine that gives the instruments their name, and Impact’s Shreddage 3.5 engine is adaptable to all kinds of guitar. It therefore comes as no surprise to find that IS have turned their attention to the more polite end of the sonic spectrum in the form of Rosette Fingerstyle, which takes a steel-strung Taylor 141ce acoustic as its source. This has been recorded using Neumann KM184 and U87 mics alongside the guitar’s built-in DI piezo pick-up signal. In terms of raw recordings, each string and fret was captured at five dynamic levels and with 10 round-robin versions to maximise potential realism. Articulations include strums, legato (hammer-on/ pulls and slides), mutes, tremolo (and muted tremolo), chokes, harmonics and body taps. Besides the many tweaks possible to the raw material in the playback engine, there is a mixer section on the so-called Console page that adds a comprehensive effects sections to each of the three audio sources as well as the master output channel.