Harbiger 8

8-string Madness

Unleash the heavy tones of a customized Regius 8; deep-sampled, playability-focused, with a plethora of options to satisfy any workflow.

Chromatic String Sampling with up to 16 RRs

Legato bends & one‑octave slides with MPE support

Capo & drop‑tune engine for instant range shifts

Multitracking with up to 5 signals and zero extra RAM

Built‑in channel strip with EQ, compressor & shaper

Experience uncompromising guitar sampling forged for metal hellscapes. Each note is captured up to 16 times across velocity layers and round‑robins, so riffs hit with raw, organic unpredictability—no machine‑gun chatter, no copy‑paste fatigue.

Eight strings with 24 frets cover everything from standard tuning down to Bb0, while per-string voicing and capo support ensure chords are voiced exactly as a guitarist would play them.

A built-in EQ, transient shaper, filters, and dual-stage compressor let you finalize the core sound inside the plugin. One-octave slides, legato bends, and RAM-free multitrack doubles combine with humanization and randomized round-robins for performances that stay natural no matter how dense the riffing.

Demo Tracks

Hear the Harbinger 8 in action.

Apocalyptic Overdrive

Soundtrack to The Apocalypse

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Blood Infiltration

Soundtrack to The Apocalypse

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Controls

The heart of the plugin is a guitar engine that bends to your will. Use Vibrato Depth and Rate for quaking trem‑storms, hitch the virtual Capo up to 20 frets for instant modal shifts, or drag up to 100 ms of Offset to turn gallops into sludge. Engage Solo and velocity decides whether two notes fuse in liquid legato or rip through a molten pitch‑bend, while the wheel pulls a full octave of slide squeal complete with fret bumps and noise.

When it’s time to thicken the assault, ignite up to five lanes of Multitrack doubling that borrow neighbouring samples without touching your RAM. Velocity‑triggered rules keep the performance human, so soft strokes choke into palm‑mutes, brutal hits spark pre‑note rakes, allowing programmed passages to dodge the machine‑gunning curse.

Channel Strip

Tone sculpting lives inside the instrument, no extra plugins required. Dual Low‑ and High‑Cut filters carve out mud or grind, then a four‑band solid-style EQ lets you scoop mids for djent clarity or push a bell to pierce the mix. A Transient Shaper sharpens pick attacks to razor edges or sands them smooth for ambient washes.

Lock the dynamics down with a two‑stage Compressor that moves from gentle glue to 20:1 grid‑iron, blendable via wet/dry Mix so you can parallel slam while keeping natural transients alive. Every circuit sits before your DAW chain, slashing latency and session clutter. Dial the Output above 0 to engage the second stage: a transparent limiter with up to 40 dB of Gain, pushing even the tiniest noises to the front.

Preferences

Beneath the surface sits a war room of tone hacks. Move Tonal Shift and the instrument swaps to higher-pitched samples, then drags them down for a darker snarl. Keep RAM on a diet with Dynamic Purging. Need to nudge a dozen instances at once? Engage Crosstalk, twist any knob, and watch a fleet of guitars snap to attention. Three dedicated noise faders—Stop, Slide, and Foley—decide whether every squeak and click screams through the mix or vanishes in silence.

Switch on MIDI Guitar to map each MIDI channel to its own string for surgical riff control, then enable Attack Compensation so the engine reports offset latency back to the DAW—keeping every chug locked to the grid even at lumbering doom tempos. Add micro‑timing chaos with Humanize, fine‑tune Legato Overlap and Bend Time, and set a custom Pitch‑Bend Range. Dial once, modifier‑click, and your entire rig follows orders.

At a Glance

  • Range: MIDI 22 – 88 (Bb0 – E6, where C4 = Middle C)
  • Neck: 8 strings · 24 frets · perfect-fourth tuning (5 st)
  • Drop depth: Lowest string can dive a full 7 semitones
  • Articulations: Sustain, Palm-Mute, Rake, Power-Chord Sustain, Power -Chord Mute
  • Round robins: Palm-Mute 16, Sustain 8, Rake 8, Power-Chord 4
  • Velocity layers: 2 for Sustain; 1 for every other articulation

System Requirements

  • Operating System: Windows 10 (build 17063) or newer · macOS 10.15 Catalina or newer
  • Storage: 2.95 GB installed · 5.90 GB free required during installation
  • CPU: Any processor capable of running the supported OS versions
  • RAM usage: 500 MB per instance when Dynamic Purging is disabled · 20 MB – 500 MB with it enabled
  • Verified Hosts: Cubase 12+, Reaper 7+, Studio One 6+, Ableton Live 11+, FL Studio 20+

Find more details and the full specification sheet in the docs.