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軟體簡介:
We created Koto Nation out of a desire to see traditional Japanese instruments
receive a deep, thorough sampling treatment, much like our acclaimed North
Indian sample library Sitar Nation. While there are a handful of libraries
which include samples of the koto and shamisen, they feature only the most
basic articulations and few (if any) velocities or round robins. To our
knowledge, the bass koto has never been sampled at all! Given the popularity
of the shakuhachi and taiko in many Western film soundtracks, we wanted to
allow film composers, hobbyist producers, ethnomusicologists, anime fans and
everyone in between access to these classic instruments and complete the
repertoire of traditional Japanese sounds available.
This library includes a massive number of samples spanning a wide variety of
both traditional and extended playing techniques all recorded by koto legend
Masayo Ishigure (Memoirs of a Geisha). This includes close and stereo room
mic positions! A total of 25 main patches spread among the three instruments
cover all crucial playing techniques, such as sustained picks with a plectrum,
pizzicato, octaves, glissandi of multiple types and speeds, vibrato, tremolo,
mordents (pitch bends), and mutes, as well as extended techniques such as
atonal glissandi, finger scrapes, string hits and hard plucks.
