A complete Ethnic Orchestra at your fingertips! Featuring a great deal of never before sampled instruments and inspirational colours, this comprehensive collection grants you access to the finest folklore soloists from the Balkans.
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~50GB free space for the library (21GB for installation files and 28,6 GB extracted full size library)
min. of 16GB RAM
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About BALKAN Ethnic Orchestra
BALKAN Ethnic Orchestra is a highly unique and fresh sounding collection giving you access to a huge amount of Eastern European soloists. Balkan Ethnic Orchestra includes everything you need to write authentic eastern european Balkan music. From expressively playable folklore instruments and the infamous balkan brass sound to an ethnic vocal quartet and solo percussion. It's all right at your fingertips.
Every instrument inside this collection was recorded with the same attention to detail than our other libraries, featuring multiple mic positions, different short and long articulations, expressive phrases, true polyphonic legato and various ensemble sizes. Recorded at Sofia Session Studio using high-end recording equipement and the same approach towards liveliness and realism as our Next Generation Choir Series, Balkan Ethnic Orchestra provides inspiration from the roots. For a complete and detailed overview we highly recommend watching the official walkthrough video as well as checking out the manual
Overview:
- Authentic Ethnic Orchestra from the Balkan region recorded in Sofia Session Studio
- Two microphone positions close and hall recorded through high-end recording equipement + custom convolution reverb
- All performances combined in playable and easy to use patches with special attention towards the natural expression of the soloist
- Over 40 of the finest Ethnic Folklore Soloists from the Balkans (Wind, Bowed and Plucked String and Brass Instruments, Vocal Quartet and Percussion Soloists) with various ornamented short and long articulations including multiple True Legato recordings
- True Polyphonic Legato Ethnic Quartet Choir featuring Agile Legato for 10 syllables in three different speeds, special layer of 'shake' sustain singing for all patches and the Syllabuilder Version 3 from the Next Generation Choir Series
- Full deeply sampled Balkan Brass Band
- Special percussion section featuring Ethnic Percussion Players using the X3M Percussion Engine
- Organic Futuristic and Fantasy Pads created from the recordings of BALKAN
- Powered by Native Instrument's free Kontakt Player and NKS compatible
Crossgrade discounts for owners of Tupans X3M, Rhodope 2 Ethnic Bulgarian Choir and Jade Ethnic Orchestra are available upon login.
What our community shares
Once you open up Balkan Ethnic Orchestra, you'll bring it into your palette permanently. There's plenty of characterful sounds, sometimes guttural with human imperfections, and other times precise and well recorded. Love this.
Rupert Gregson-Williams
"Wonder Woman", "The Crown", "The Legend of Tarzan"
Being a lifelong fan of the Eastern European music tradition, I am so grateful to George for making parts of that rich vocabulary available as sampling libraries and instrument designs. They are made with the 'working composer' in mind, and have a unique, direct sound character.
Paul Haslinger
"Underworld", "Crank"
Strezov Sampling has knocked it out of the park with Balkan Ethnic Orchestra. Not only to cover instruments which just haven't been sampled before, but they have done that with precision and excellence.
Samples Spotlight
Balkan delivers a huge amount of instruments at a quality level you won't find in any other Ethno library out there.
Tim Heinrich
Recording.de
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