Folk music instruments and samples

An intricate, detailed Kontakt sample library featuring the authentic and beautiful sound of the Chinese Guzheng! Performed by Qianqian Jin, this virtual instrument includes both crucial articulations and extended bowing techniques.ConceptGuzheng is the 5th installment in our acclaimed Plectra Series.

Precisionsound Folk Lute Guitar [Kontakt] The Folk Lute Guitar has a round resonant body and nylon strings on a short neck. It has both bite and weight, making it ideal for ballads, folk songs and classical guitar pieces. The Folk Lute Guitar requires the full version of Kontakt 5.5.1+! Description The...

QUANTUM LEAP - RA - THE DEFINITIVE RARE AND ETHNIC VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT In ancient Egypt, RA was regarded as the creator of everything, the god of the sun. RA is usually represented with the body of a man and the head of a hawk, holding an ankh & sceptre. The chief location of RA worship was Heliopolis...

Rast Sound Ceremonial Vocals [WAV / Kontakt] Ceremonial Vocals is the second library within the world vocals series of Rast Sound. We feel lucky and excited to have met/worked with an amazing performer who spends most of her time within the ceremonial act and performance. The library provides vocal performances...

We are very excited to release the 4th installment in our World Vocals series from the authentic lands of Middle East, Persian Vocals.This is one of the  first (if not “the first”) vocal library (incl Kontakt instruments) from todays Iran, offered to the use of producers and composers worldwide.

Sample Logic Bohemian CINEMATIC STREET & NEW WORLD INSTRUMENTS. Product features Power Play BOHEMIAN's innovative interface is equipped with 8 studio-quality effects, providing the freedom to infinitely transform samples into awesome twisted evolving soundscapes, crushing impacts, unprecedented sequences.

Sample Logic Gamelan MORPHED & MUTATED FOR A NEW WORLD. Gamelan capabilities GAMELAN includes over 750 soundsources, 700 soundcores, 1,700 instruments, and a 14 GB compressed sample library using Kontakt’s lossless sample storage compression. All samples were recorded at 88.2 kHz and are delivered at 44.

Welcome to "Shevannai, the Voice of Elves" ! A perfect tool for composers and sound designers to create ambience and music for films, documentaries, video games and new age music. Unparalleled realism...Pure inspiration Shevannai is a beautiful solo vocal library aimed at easily creating your...

Impact Soundworks Shou Drum [DVD / Kontakt] Shou Drum A beautiful tuned drum handcrafted from tempered steel and performed with a variety of articulations and mallets. The Shou Drum's pure tone is perfect for atmospheric music, film & game scoring, evolving textures, and ambient moods. A wonderfully...

2.13 GB of superior psy-trance samples! Singomakers are very proud to present a brand-new pack - Psytrance Mantra Vocals 2! Recently, we've heard so many psy-styled tracks being released from top global artists, and not only from big names in the psy-trance scene such as Astrix, Vini Vici, Ace Ventura...

The most deeply sampled sitar, tambura, tabla and baya library ever released! Includes multiple mic positions, all important playing techniques, FX patches, and MIDI grooves. Concept We came up with the idea for Sitar Nation in mid-2007, after noticing that despite the growing popularity of ethnic instrument libraries.

Producer and guitarist Michael Hewett has created a gorgeous palette of custom loops and samples from his 25-year plus practice of nylon/steel string guitars & charango. Michael focused on capturing the intimate sound of the nail contacting the strings, ethereal ebow sheets of sound, enchanting charango...

Shakuhachi, the third release in the Virtuoso Japanese Series, is now available as a software instrument in Kontakt format.Singing sonorous intonation, deep yet delicate breathing, and a Japanese sound aesthetic spilling into the periphery: The shakuhachi — an instrument symbolic of Japan —...

SHO - Virtuoso Japanese SeriesSho, the fourth release in the Virtuoso Japanese Series, is now available as a software instrument in Kontakt format.The sho is free reed musical instrument and one of the three primary woodwind instruments used in gagaku court orchestra music. Consisting of 17 slender bamboo pipes.

Tsugaru Shamisen, the second release in the Virtuoso Japanese Series, is now available as a Kontakt instrument library. Sonica Instruments has painstakingly recreated every aspect of the revered tsugaru shamisen — the stirring percussive sounds, the powerful playing techniques, and the blazing...

Virtuoso Japanese Series KOTO 13, an exquisitely crafted virtual 13-string koto — the first release in our new Virtuoso Japanese Series of Kontakt instruments The 13-string koto is one of Japan’s most dignified traditional instruments. Capable of everything from elegant, single plucked notes to aggressive glissandos.

SCANDINAVIAN KEYED STRINGSFamiliar yet somehow different, the sound of the Nyckelharpa walks a delicate line. Dating from the middle ages, Nyckelharpa translates as ‘keyed fiddle’ in Swedish.The pitch of the notes is altered by pressing a wooden key, which frets the string. There are also 12 sympathetic strings.

ELEGANCE. BALANCE. RHYTHM.The Chinese Sheng, Laotian Khaen, and Japanese Sho are three very similar instruments with a common ancestor.  They have been traditionally made from bamboo, the aluminium of the east, since the 14th century BC.Sound is created by both inhaling and exhaling - as with a western mouth-organ.

Sonokinetic Ethnic Desert Voice [DVD][Kontakt] An Arabic Male Vocalist Phrase-based Sampled Library. Samples 44.1 kHZ - 24 BIT WAVE format 1.750+ SAMPLES 1.21 GB uncompressed Royalty and copyright free content license Format FOR NATIVE INSTRUMENTS Kontakt 4.2.4 & 5 FULL VERSION NOT COMPATIBLE WITH...

Sonokinetic Gediz [Kontakt] Male Turkish Vocal Performance Samples. Samples 44.1 kHZ - 16 BIT NCW format 2.400+ SAMPLES 600 MB uncompressed royalty and copyright free content license Format FOR NATIVE INSTRUMENTS Kontakt 5 FULL VERSION NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE FREE KONTAKT PLAYER! Instrument Patches Native...

A Turkish Female Vocalist Phrase-based Sampled Library. Samples 44.1 kHZ - 24 BIT AIFF format 3.400+ SAMPLES 1.36 GB uncompressed Royalty and copyright free content license Format FOR NATIVE INSTRUMENTS Kontakt 4.2.4 & 5 FULL VERSION NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE FREE KONTAKT PLAYER! Instrument Patches...

Sonokinetic Hurdy Gurdy [DVD][Kontakt] A Medieval Automatically Bowed String Instrument Multi-sampled Library. Samples 48 kHz, 24 bit mono aif format 1416 Samples 1.04 Gb uncompressed royalty and copyright freecontent license Format FOR NATIVE INSTRUMENTS Kontakt 4.2.4 & 5 FULL VERSION NOT COMPATIBLE...

Sonokinetic Kemence [2 DVD][Kontakt] A Middle-eastern Bowed String Instrument Sample Library, Both Phrase-based and Multi-sampled. Samples 44.1 kHz, 24 Bit AIF format 4800+ SAMPLES 8.4+ GB uncompressed royalty and copyright free content license Format FOR NATIVE INSTRUMENTS KONTAKT 4.2.4 & 5 FULL...

Sonokinetic Masaai [DVD / Kontakt] Traditional Tribal Music. Samples: Vocals: (Boys & Girls Choir Umoja, Village Boys Choir, Female Village Choir, Choir Kombe, Maasai Hunting Chant, Maasai Male Singing, Village Male Choir, Singing Shaman, Girls Choir, Zulu Chant) Tribe Ensembles: Kenyan Village Music.

Sonokinetic Ney v1.1 [2 DVD][Kontakt] A Middle-eastern Bamboo Flute Instrument Sample Library, both Phrase-based and Multi-sampled. Samples 48 kHz, 24 Bit NCW format 13600 SAMPLES +7 GB uncompressed royalty and copyright free content license Format FOR NATIVE INSTRUMENTS Kontakt 4.2.4 & 5 FULL VERSION...

Sonokinetic Qanun [2 DVD] [Kontakt] A Middle-eastern Hammered String Instrument Sample Library, both Phrase-based and Multi-sampled. Samples 44.1 kHz, 24 Bit NCW format 14934 SAMPLES 6.6 GB uncompressed royalty and copyright free content license Format FOR NATIVE INSTRUMENTS Kontakt 4.2.4 & 5 FULL...

Sonokinetic Rojin v1.2 [DVD][Kontakt] A Kurdish Female Vocalist Phrase-based Sampled Library. Samples 48 kHz, 24 BIT AIFF FORMAT 2000+ SAMPLES 1,26 GB uncompressed royalty and copyright free content license Format FOR NATIVE INSTRUMENTS Kontakt 4.2.4 & 5 FULL VERSION NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE FREE...

A Yemenite Male Vocalist Phrase-based Sampled Library. About Yemenite With this library Sonokinetic is back where it all began. At the cradle of cultural history we found another intriguing and mystical vocal art form. Mr. Abraham Acharak blessed us with a divinely stunning performance and showed us...

SOUNDS OF KNIGHTS AND TAVERNSOur first phrase library focusing on plucked instruments, MEDIEVAL PHRASES LUTE & THEORBO brings you into a world of classic imagination, booming with bards and taverns, questing knights, and roving robber barons and bandits.In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the bards...

Pairing a radiant 12-STRING guitar with the signature sound of the BALALAIKA, we bring you the third entry in our Origins series.The powerful Multi-Arpeggio-Designer (MAD) opens up a whole new world of possibilities with these carefully selected plucked string instruments: Enrich your composition with ethereal textures.