Publisher: Impact Soundworks
Website: impactsoundworks.com/product/koto-nation
Format: KONTAKT
Quality: 24 bit 44.1 kHz stereo
Description: Koto is the national instrument of Japan, and one of the oldest stringed instruments in the world, the library has 2 microphone positions, 25 main patches among the three instruments covers all the most important playing techniques – pizzicato, glissando of several types and speeds, vibrato, tremolo.
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.
Activation: not required
KONTAKT 5.5.2 +
