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Sinjin · Post by **Sinjin** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:30 pm

im always in search of good methods for recreating traditional asian instruments, esp. erhu and koto.

i used to know a good trick for faking a shakuhachi on a guitar but i forgot the GD tuning....

anyway, ive got umm..wtf is it called...aw bloody hell..oh right, Swarplug.its the Indian music VSTi...i dont have a need for iNDIAN instruments as im not talvin singh, but i still thought it was damn cool. came with appropriate midi files too. anyway point being, the tonal and scale structures work different for a lot of traditional eastern music that doesnt rely on bach for its tone division model. its good learning material.

so anyway, if anyone has any good tips or recommended VSTis, pass em on please.

Shi-shi eh!

jahnlay · Post by **jahnlay** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:09 pm

Try Ethnic and World sample cd's, you get some pretty wicked stuff out there

tribalogical · Post by **tribalogical** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 3:28 am

shakuhachi..... is not........ chinese................

but I get the drift....

check out this lib... it's not the cheapest, but it's great (everything I've heard or used from Spectrasonics is top-flight). The complete library is recommended...

http://www.spectrasonics.net/libraries/asia.php

(be sure and listen to the demo clip)

enjoy....

peace,
tribalogical

computo · Post by **computo** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 3:46 am

Then you'll probably appreciate this game....

http://www.killsometime.com/games/game.asp?ID=72

Oh...

Shit.

I thought you said you like CHEESE.

Oh well.

ManxRed · Post by **ManxRed** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:32 am

You could try using soundfonts. load sfz (or whatever its called, free soundfont vst) and then go to

http://www.sf2midi.com/

and do a search for the instruments you need. There is a shakuhachi, I looked, but I didn't get around to loading it and seeing how good it was.

Nixon · Post by **Nixon** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:39 am

http://3voor12.vpro.nl/plundertmusea/in ... uments.jsp

it's dutch, so ti's free! these are traditional chinese instruments from the museum, wich they all sampled!

Sinjin · Post by **Sinjin** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:51 pm

right on..thanks gang.

and yes i know shakuhachi is not chinese..i was demonstrating that i like JAPANESE sounds TOO.

husker · Post by **husker** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:25 pm

this stuff is bl**dy fantastic

http://www.chineekong.com/

Sinjin · Post by **Sinjin** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 2:30 pm

yahyahyah! i just read about that in cm yesterday. imma go check it now.