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12th June 2006
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| Gear maniac  Joined: Aug 2005 Location: Holland
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Thread Starter | Iranian/Persian instrument samples..?
I'm looking for samples from Persian instruments, like Setar, Daf, Tar, Kamanc  , Tombak, Santur etcetc.It's somehow difficult to find good stuff of these. I know the library Campbell's Origins has few, but that seems about it. Anyone knows of another site/ title with persian instruments samples? Much obliged! |
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12th June 2006
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| Gearslutz.com admin  |
A fellow Gearslut, based in Germany I belive, just completed the Iranian world cup anthem! Pehaps he has some samples he can trade with you.
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12th June 2006
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Oct 2002 Location: Hamburg
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Good to see more people dealing with arabic/persian music on this board  Quote:
It is in fact VERY difficult, to find good samples for Oriental Stuff... Most Libraries I checked had lots of phrases and "ready to go" styles, but that's not something I'm looking for, so I cannot recommend anything to look for, sorry! Since Tuning is crucial, I cannot imagine a (workeable) collection of those instruments, I usually go with musicians. What I _can_ recommend is the "Darbuka" virtual Percussion Ensemble by Wizoo?? Good luck on your search, and please post if you dig something useful for you on your quest  It might be worth to look for .sf2 and .gig - files on the net.... Cheers, Niko
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12th June 2006
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| Gear addict Joined: Aug 2005 Location: Gothenburg Sweden
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silk road by sonic implants is pretty cool... http://www.sonicimplants.com/GnReviewsSilkRoad1.htm as is big fish audio Roots of the middle east and north africa...(although its basically perc based) http://www.loopwise.com/shop/product...ducts_id=54738
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12th June 2006
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Sep 2003 Location: San Francisco
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funkynuts - do you own "silk road"? i was thinking about buying but it looked more like loops than actual instruments. seemed a bit sketch for the price without being able to try. i'd rather just sample vinyl and cd's for way cheaper. electric |
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12th June 2006
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| Gear maniac Joined: Aug 2005 Location: Holland
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Thread Starter | Quote:
Yes, I was indeed thinking someone might have posted some simple patches somewhere.. I'll post it if I find something. It is indeed disappointing, most tuned instruments are "authentically" tuned when looped, but seperate samples suddenly go western tuning on you! I wouldn't even mind having a lot of phrases and loops, but they also are very scarce. And the seperate samples are terrible, who is interested in western tuned persian instruments anyway!!? | |
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12th June 2006
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| Gear maniac Joined: Aug 2005 Location: Holland
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Silk road, although cool now & then, has the exact problems stated above. Plus; barely any samples! turkisch & arabian instruments are easier to find, like the darbuka etc. there's more of those on Silk Road I believe | |
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12th June 2006
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| Gear nut Joined: Mar 2004 Location: brooklyn, ny
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swarshala has decent daff, darabouka/doumbek, and finger cymbal samples, as well as a whole slew of pretty solid indian stuff--the dholki and pakhwaj samples are especially good. the string samples are simple but OK; the winds are horrible.
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13th June 2006
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| Gear maniac  Joined: May 2006 Location: All around
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Hi MArbarbaar I am in a network with some GREAT ( I mean OURSTANDINGLY SKILLED & INSPIRED ) Persian musicians ... Yes , Kamanche, Daf, Darbouk, Santurplayers, the singing & Nay ... Nothing beats the real thing! So PM me, if interested .. to hear some samples check http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ic&v=glance&n= RA from East West does have a very nice SAntoor as well as some percussion and other great world-sounds .. very playable .. they also implemented the different strokes & grace-notes and trillers etc .. check that out too if that is what you need .. Again : Nothing beats the real thing ! |
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14th June 2006
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| Gear maniac Joined: Aug 2005 Location: Holland
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Way cool! Speak 2 you soon! Anyone else may still comment of course if you know something. I already tried looking for some free stuffs (soundfonts etc), I found several cool things but noone of them Persian ;-) So I think the net is ruled out on this one. | |
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21st June 2006
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| Gear nut  Joined: Nov 2004 Location: LIC, NY
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I am Persian, I live in NYC and I play dombak and Daf. I also have a very nice santur. What kind of samples are you looking for exactly. Maybe I can pull something up for you. Alternatively, if you're in the area, we can work something out at my studio and do a sample cd for exactly what you need. PM me and we can talk. Sasha |
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21st June 2006
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| Gear addict Joined: Apr 2006 Location: Australia aka heaven
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My father is a professional musician (persian) and plays all of those instruments. If you need anything done from my end, let me know.
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21st June 2006
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| Gear maniac  Joined: Oct 2005
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NOTHING beats the real thing!!! good samples are hard to get....find a good player...i work in the middle east..depends on what you are doing! i found one cd but im abusing it,,,tell you the name after im done  |
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21st June 2006
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Jan 2006 Location: El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula
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i defintly backup the DARBUKA recomendation. is defintly the best. also, ethnic worl from ZeroG dont get orient world or silk roads those suck. swarplug is really good but some samples are more for indian stuff. i met a dude that makes pro iranian music in australia ("which is interesting") he had a korg keyboard i never seened before. it was geard for the arabic/persian styles music. so it was loaded with cool patterns of rythms i couldnd even pronounce and where awsome. he also loaded samples catriges also. other things included a fast acces to samplekey tunning , so he could tune down a quarter of the mayor seventh of the scale he was playing at the moment to give that distint middle eastern sound. of course when i tried to sample the rythms and multipatches my PC machine didnt want to work. damn i totally forgot the model but didnt find it in the korg website. the casing of the keyboard said something like middle eastern module or kyboard. well i still like darbuka from Wizoo. i have every ethnic library out there and i think its true, there should be more. and better!. | |
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21st June 2006
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| Gear addict Joined: Apr 2006 Location: Australia aka heaven
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samples dont' cut it IMO. If you've got a good chain then a good musician will give you the best results. |
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21st June 2006
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Sep 2005 Location: Berlin-London
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if you don't end up going down the live muso route, check out the group buy on Quantum Leap's 'RA' (soundsonline.com, I think) This is a NI Kontakt Player based sample replay sound set, with a lot of Middle Eastern sounds, in addition to the shedload of stuff from around the globe. It's half price until 30th June. I just picked up a copy, but it's too early days to give a thumbs up or down. I can say it 'sounds' great - well engineered (at Ocean Way, apparently) and fairly comprehensive. A mix of some 'ready-to-go' phrases and a huge number of multi samples |
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21st June 2006
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| Gear nut Joined: Nov 2004 Location: LIC, NY
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I do agree as well. | |
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