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EastWest - Silk (Ethnic Instruments)

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Original price $199.00
Original price $199.00 - Original price $199.00
Original price $199.00
Current price $119.60
$119.60 - $119.60
Current price $119.60

Effortlessly pull your listeners into the ancient world of your choosing. Produced by award-winning sounds producers Doug Rogers and Nick Phoenix, Silk features a large collection of world instruments from the lands of the Silk Road: China, India, and Persia.

These bowed, plucked, and wind instruments were performed by master instrumentalists who have spent years perfecting their craft and were recorded using vintage Neumann microphones at legendary EastWest Studios. Using SILK's broad range of articulations, live-recorded legato and full phrases, you can quickly create an ensemble that sounds like it was recorded in a time and place far removed from our own.

  • Incredibly detailed Silk Road instruments from China, India, and Persia, part of the most ambitious world instrument collection ever created
  • Created by award-winning sounds producers Doug Rogers and Nick Phoenix
  • 25 GB instrument: 20 GB's of multi-samples and 5 GB's of authentic performances
  • Recorded legato intervals for erhu, zhonghu, jinghu, electric cello, kemenche, duduk, 30-piece string section, dilruba, bansuri
  • Master musicians recorded at EastWest Studios, using vintage Neumann microphones, Neve consoles and Meitner converters
  • Now included in OPUS, along with individual downloads, custom keyswitches, and dozens of MIDI Tools and Mixer Effects

Features

  • User interface custom designed for each virtual instrument, including only the controls needed.
  • 64-bit support allows you to load many more instruments and voices, limited only by your system RAM.
  • Easy to use browser displays all of your instruments. Interface automatically changes to display current instrument.
  • Articulation list shows all expressions within the instrument. No need to look up key-switches.
  • Real time performance analysis detects legato and repetitive playing and responds accordingly.
  • Stereo handling allows swapping left and right channels, mono from left, mono from right, or mono sum.
  • Load, unload, mix, pan, mute mic positions with built-in mic mixer (Pianos, Symphonic Orchestra, Symphonic Choirs).
  • The best sounding and most powerful effects engine available, including impulse response reverb, filters, and specialized effects such as Artificial Double Tracking (ADT).
  • Highest quality resampling engine.
  • Custom engine allows us to design instruments without compromise.
  • Load as many instruments as your computer can handle in one application.
  • AU, VST, Standalone, Intel Mac 7 and later, Windows 7 and later, 64-bit, 32-bit
Instruments from Persia
  • Electric Cello (bowed string)
  • Kemenche (bowed string)
  • Nay (wind)
  • Duduk (wind)
  • Tar (string)
  • Qanun (string)
  • 30 piece string section (bowed string)
Instruments from China
  • Erhu (bowed string)
  • Zhonghu (bowed string)
  • Jinhu (bowed string)
  • Pipa (string)
  • Guzheng (string)
  • Yangqin (string)
  • Sheng (accordion)
  • Suona low (brass)
  • Suona high (brass)
  • Dizi low (wind)
  • Dizi hi (wind)
  • Xiao (wind)
  • Bawu (wind)
Instruments from India
  • Dilruba (bowed string)
  • Sarod (string)
  • Tanpura (string)
  • Bansuri (wind)

“Silk is beautiful. It was initially designed as an extension of East West Quantum Leap's RA, THE go-to library for world/ethnic instruments in the TV/film/video game world. It is much more than that; it definitely stands on its own.

The detail in the instruments is stunning, and the playability factor is high. In regarding to the TV/film/documentary world, this should be in every composer's collection”
— Audiomidi

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System Requirements

MINIMUM SYSTEM

  • CPU: Quad-core (four cores), running at 2.7 GHz (or above)
  • RAM: 16 GB
  • OS: macOS 10.13 (or later); Windows 10 with ASIO sound drivers
  • Drive: HDD (7200 rpm, non-energy saving)

RECOMMENDED SYSTEM

  • CPU: Octa-core (eight cores), running at 2.7 GHz (or above)
  • RAM: 32 GB or more
  • OS: macOS 10.13 (or later); Windows 10 with ASIO sound drivers
  • Drive: SSD (SATA or PCIe)

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