Ethnic-World Collection by Aria Sounds

The Bansuri is an traditional, ancient Indian flute. Get that fantastic, well known and loved ethnic sound in your scores/soundtracks. Featuring true legato interval playing, we have sampled this instrument extensively with a wide variety of expressional playing, vibrato, no vibrato, artiulations including different types of turn, more complex ornaments, FP (loud – sudden quiet), accelerating vibrato and airy soft vs harder attacks. These are all switchable throughout playing via two conveniently placed keyswitch areas below the main playing range on your keyboard.

The Xiao is an ancient traditional Chinese, end-blown bamboo flute, also known as the dòngxiao. We have sampled this instrument with true legato intervals all the way up to the octave, and, like the bansuri, have artificially filled in the notes which actually are not possible to play on the instrument physically. With our instrument, you can play it in any key, as you would any other VST instrument on the keyboard, without worrying about which notes are possible etc.

This VST instrument was created with a harp recorded in a very warm and soft sounding room, for a much more intimate and pleasing sound. It has also been recorded in such a way that it can easily be applied to all sorts of mixes and styles of music and fit wonderfully with other instruments, reverb etc.
It comes complete with three true dynamic levels, and a brilliant maximum nine true variations per note!