World Instruments Vol.1
FANTASTiC | 22 August 2022 | 43.34 MB
A selection of ethnic instrumental loops including bamboo flute, Bolivian ronroco and Shakuhachi.
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A selection of ethnic instrumental loops including bamboo flute, Bolivian ronroco and Shakuhachi.
The Shakuhachi is an ancient Chinese bamboo flute that was later instroduced to Japan, with a distinctive warm body and thick harmonic character. We’ve wrapped it up into an awesome playable virtual instrument sample library for you to enjoy, absolutely free! Handy tip – layer up the static sustained notes with a staccato articulation, delay the static track by 50-100ms and allow the classic Shakuhachi articulations to shine through and add character! Choose from a number of articulations and play around with the pitch to get monstrous sounding organs and pads! The samples come pre mapped into Ableton Sampler, Kontakt, EXS24, Mach-5, SFV, Halion and Reason NN-XT, each with 4 articulations and multiple round robins and velocities.
It was originally introduced from China into Japan in the 8th century and underwent a resurgence in the early Edo Period. The shakuhachi is traditionally made of bamboo, but versions now exist in ABS and hardwoods. It was used by the monks of the Fuke school of Zen Buddhism in the practice of suizen. It was also a favorite of film composer James Horner and used on countless of his film scores.