Sonica Instruments – SHAKUHACHI (KONTAKT)

Publisher : Sonica Instruments
Website : sonica
Format : KONTAKT 5.4+
System Requirements : Mac OS X 10.10 or newer recommended
Intel Core 2 Duo or better
Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10
Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2
A minimum of 4 GB of RAM (6 GB is recommended) is needed on both Mac and Windows systems.
Quality : 24 bit 44.1 kHz stereo

Description : Shakuhachi, the third release of the Japanese Virtuoso series, is now available as a software tool in the Kontakt format.
Singing sonorous intonation, deep but delicate breathing, and Japanese sound aesthetics spreading around the periphery: shakuhachi – an instrument symbolizing Japan – finally joins the Virtuoso Japanese Series family.
Ray Jin played shakuhachi for sampling. He gave us a whole kaleidoscope of sounds of a bamboo instrument – from soft, sweet long tones to the most bombastic sounds – which can be produced only by the most experienced player. In the studio, we used careful tuning of the microphone along with high-quality, unpainted mic preamps to ensure that we caught the real voice of the instrument. And in order to recreate the liveliness of the special game techniques, the development of special mechanisms and interfaces of articulation was required. Key Trigger Connection allows an artist to switch playing methods on the fly without interrupting sound.
As a wind instrument, various techniques are played on the shakuhachi from time to time, while maintaining one sound: for example, from a direct tone to yuri (vibrato), and then from yuri to a strong and loud air explosion. We designed Key Trigger Connection from scratch to reproduce this typical shakuhachi performance approach. Key Trigger Connection allows you to seamlessly connect articulations by simply pressing the assigned keys during the game. Connected articulations include various techniques of yuri, sforzando, muraiki (breathing), fingering, teach and oshi and tamai (tongue trill). You can combine as many articulations as you want while holding the base note to feel a live instrument.
Blast control. This mechanism allows the performer using the controller to manipulate the duration from the initial breath noise until any sound is made, until the full power of the note is reached. This control makes you play the keyboard like a wind controller, giving you access to smooth, dynamic expressions of breath, even though it is based on samples. When playing legato, this function automatically generates alternating legato, which are necessary for shakuhachi. Atari legato recreates a unique fingering technique that causes the pitch to pop up when the note changes. The Oshi and uchi function allows the performer to add optional fingerings during an exploding note as desired, for accents or tremolo effects.
The library contains almost all the possible articulations of the shakuhachi, including vertical and horizontal yuri and other vibrato, sforzando techniques, many expressions of Muray breathing, tamae trill, korokoro, karakara and other sound effects techniques, as well as improvisations based on short scales. Each chromatic height throughout the register can be individually adjusted. This allows you to access the traditional scales and tones of Japanese music and the “sensations” unique to a particular artist. And, of course, pitch settings can be saved and loaded.