Throw up the devil horns and prepare to ruthlessly hammer your plastic MIDI keyboard. Volume 17 is what happens when polite 90s sound designers decide it’s time to get aggressive. E-MU proudly boasted that this was the “most ruthless collection of electric guitar samples ever assembled,” which translates to a digital buffet of carefully recorded angst for producers who don’t actually own an amplifier.

The Instant Chug: Power chords and palm mutes. Finally, you can lay down a brutal, drop-tuned metal riff perfectly aligned to a rigid 120 BPM quantization grid, just as the dark synth lords intended.

Shredding via MIDI: Leads and harmonics. Experience the profound absurdity of melting faces with a blistering guitar solo using only your index fingers and a plastic pitch-bend wheel.

On-Demand Sonic Chaos: Scrapes, scratches, and slides. The gritty, authentic noise of a pick sliding down a fretboard, conveniently and permanently mapped to C#3 for your producing pleasure.

Polite Feedback: The visceral danger of standing entirely too close to a roaring Marshall full-stack, safely contained within a digital file. Turn the feedback on, turn it off. Totally safe, completely ruthless.

As always, this raging, distortion-soaked beast of a library is ready to be unleashed inside the quiet, clinical confines of your E4 Ultras, EOS, and ESI samplers.