Soundiron Bizarre Sitar Indian string library for Kontakt. The Bizarre Sitar may not seem so strange at first glance. It has most of the elements found on any other sitar, with its traditional gourd body, both main playable strings and sympathetic resonating strings, parda adjustable curved frets, kunti tuning pegs, dandi neck, ghoraj main bridge all complete with orante hand painted accents. At just over 2. 4 in length, however, this little beauty is barely half the size of a standard sitar. Simply being small isnt bizarre by any means, but what is bizarre is how it can achieve such a lush, full bodied sound while being so small. Electric Guitars For Sale' title='Electric Guitars For Sale' />Intended as more decoration than instrument, we feel this little guy has been highly underestimated. Although soft spoken and possessing fewer strings than normal 5 main and 6 sympathetic, all this baby sitar needed was someone to listen closely. And we did. Very close. At the heart of our Bizarre Sitar library are the strumming patches. Two main strumming tunings are included, a fifth and and octaveunison. An onboard Speed knob MIDI assignable and defaulted to the modwheel allows you to sculpt the speed of the individual strum from very tight, fast strums to slower, plucky strums. The unison articulation was tuned with strings in unison and in several octaves to give a very full sound. Bass Guitars For Beginners' title='Bass Guitars For Beginners' />
The fifth articulation was tuned with strings in unison and in fifths, similar to the Pancham Kharaj tuning popularized by Ravi Shankar. By recording several different strumming speeds for both the fifth and the unison strumming articulations, this library allows you to create realistic sounding strums by adjusting the speed in real time. The strums are tuned and spread across the entire keyboard, providing deep, droning sounds in the low end and sharp, mandolin like plucks in the high end. In addition, weve also included individual string plucks for lead lines and accents. Get thousands of guitar rig presets from 1 place. Make your guitar sound quickly and easily. I had a Coral Sitar sitar style Danelectro. Im settling for the sitar patch in my Roland guitar synth for the occasional times I want that sound. The first string on the sitar was recorded in several different tunings with multiple velocity layers. The natural tendency of this instrument is for the pitch to be slightly sharp on the initial attack and bend down gently over time. The effect is increased in the higher velocity layers. Special combo patches give you both plucks in the high end and strums in the low end for easy playability. Also included are a number of effects fret scrapes, mutes, etc., staccato bowing, tremolo bowing and sustained bowing. Though not traditionally bowed, we decided to include several bonus patches of bowed sitar sustain, staccato, and tremolo. The tremolo patch features an intensity knob to adjust through three different intensity layers and a Speed knob to adjust the playback speed of the tremolo samples. This allows you to more closely match a specific tempo or crank it up and go crazy. Acoustic Guitars For SaleThere are also a number of sound designed ambient drones sculpted entirely from the recorded source material. All of these things combine with our custom front panel performance controls and extended DSP FX and arpeggiation systems to make this an extremely flexible and versatile virtual instrument. Bowed staccato, tremolo and sustainsPlucked 1. Strummed 1. 0x rr, 4 8 velocitiesFX includes mutes, scrapes and other special effectsAll plucked, strummed, bowed and ambience patches are tuned and spread across the entire keyboard range in Kontakt. The FX section provides 7 preset patches with specially dialed in effects to demonstrate the power of our custom controls, convolution reverb impulses and pre loaded effects. Also included are fret scrapes, strum mutes and other effects. Also included is a set of ambient drone patches created from bizarre sitar source material. There are four master patches with a Pro 5. A cross fade patch is included to blend between the first three ambiences cross fade assigned to the modwheel by default. Several presets also include our Uberpeggiator system, which allows both simple and complex free form and rule based arpeggios and step sequences. Youll need the full retail version of Kontakt 3. Weve also included legacy K4 versions of the main presets as well for Kontakt 4 users. Kontakt is an industry standard advanced virtual instrument software sampler platform. Learn more about Kontakt by Clicking Here. Check out screenshots of our custom graphical user interface for Kontakt in the image gallery above. They provide a wide range of sound shaping parameter controls, each one totally automation ready in your host environment or Kontakts stand alone mode. This is a standard Kontakt open format library, so the free Kontakt Player doesnt support this open format Kontakt library. Mu Season 6 Episode 3 here. However, the sample directories are fully accessible to allow user customization, import and mapping into other wav compatible software, sampler and synth formats. The special Libraries tab doesnt support this open format Kontakt library, but you can use the standard File browser tab, or import this library into the Kontakt database and Quickload tools for easy navigation, loading and organization. Product Specs. 1. GB installed. 59. Samples. 25 instrument presets. Hz uncompressed PCM wav samples. Formats Kontakt 3. Unlocked Kontakt presets and wav samples to allow user customization. Includes a bonus collection of custom sound designed ambiences, drones and special FX presets, as well as some of our favorite custom convolution reverb impulses and an advanced Kontakt user interface with full automation support. Documentation. System Requirements. The full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt version 3. The free Kontakt Player and Add Library import process do not support this standard open format Kontakt library. Windows XP or higher. Mac OSX 1. 0. 6 or higher. Dual Core CPU, 2 GB System Ram, SATA or SSD hard drive recommended for this library. Note This digital product is delivered as a download via the Amazon S3 cloud network. A broadband internet connection is required. Please see our Help Page for licensing information, download and installation instructions, tutorials and to read our End User Licensing Agreement before ordering. All sales are final.