Angklung

Indonesian bamboo tuned percussion

Angklung is a full-ranged traditional tuned percussion instrument originating from Indonesia, dating back to roughly the 7th Century AD. Over the past thousand years, it has spread widely throughout Southeast Asia and Polynesia and can be heard in a variety of traditional and modern genres, from gamelan orchestras to pop bands and jazz ensembles.

The Angklung is actually best thought of as a set of several individual single-note instruments, each one comprised of a pair of bamboo tubes in a higher/lower octave pair sounded by a loose rattle. The result is a uniquely full, clear but short-sustaining, dry note. For this massive dedicated Angklung multi-sample library, Soundiron have recorded a set of 18 Angklung notes, tuned over a major scale spanning nearly 3 full octaves. They captured them up close in a dry studio and out in a large open hall with 3 mic positions (close, mid, far). Soundiron recorded each up and down stroke separately, with 48 round-robin variations per-velocity/per-note for the dry (24 up/24 down) and 16 round-robin variations per-velocity/per-note for the hall samples (8 up/8 down). They also recorded natural hand-played sustaining loops at different speeds and intensities, with smooth dynamic cross-fading between layers and adjustable release samples. And finally, Soundiron created a full collection of sustaining pads, ambiences and soundscapes from the raw bamboo angklung recordings that complement the sonic flavor and soul of the library.

Product Specs

• 18 bamboo tubes recorded dry and in a large hall with three microphone positions: Close, Mid, Far

• 12 ambient pads and evolving drones created from the source content

• 21 Powerful Kontakt .nki instrument presets

• 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples

• 6,838 stereo samples

• 3.82 GB Installed

• Flexible and intuitive multi-layer user interface controls, with LFO, filter, glide, and arpeggiator

• Full FX rack with convolution reverb with custom rooms, halls, chambers & FX environments

The full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt version 6.2.2+ is required