Turkish Oud

Realistisches Oud Instrument

Mit der Turkish Oud Library liefert Impact Soundworks ein sehr detailliertes und realistisches Instrument ab, das auf Samples eines maßgeschneiderten OUD basiert. Eingespielt wurde dieses traditionell im Orient angesiedelte Instrument von Stelios Varveris unter der Leitung von Produzent Dimitris Plagianis, es beinhaltet alle gängigen Artikulationen und verfügt desweiteren über eine „Full Microtuning Engine“, die ein authentisches Spielgefühl garantiert.

Detaillierte Beschreibung in englischer Sprache:

The history of the oud extends back to antiquity, having been referenced in writings over 1,000 years old. It is a fretless, stringed instrument that has been used in both Middle Eastern and European music for many centuries, and is now played all over the world. The instrument we sampled is a custom-made, double soundboard Turkish oud by Faruk Türünz. The instrument was performed by Stelios Varveris and recorded with pristine Neumann & AKG mics through an SSL console in a treated studio room.

Key Features

• 3,860 x 24bit recordings with 2 mics
• All strings chromatically sampled
• 4x dynamics / 4x RR per key
• Up & downstrokes
• Sustain, hammer-on, pull-off
• Tremolo, glissando, vibrato
• Full control of string, articulation, stroke
• Intelligent voicing + fretting engine
• Microtuning with presets and oriental scales
• Major, minor, and fifth chords

Interface & Engine

The goal in creating this library was to produce an incredibly intuitive instrument that simply sounds great out of the box. The powerful script engine seamlessly voices notes and chords - no complex keyswitches required. Advanced users can delve into the gorgeous, inspiring user interface for custom mix controls like microphone blend, EQ, compression, and reverb, and microtuning presets can be used to achieve incredibly authentic performances.

The instrument also boasts a powerful microtuning engine, with adjustments of up to a quarter tone per note. This page includes a dropdown menu with preset tunings of various authentic tuning styles. Additionally, you can change the root note of your microtuning configuration, and if instead of prepared tunings, you wish to invoke microtuning on the fly, you can simply turn the key knob to the "custom" setting; this will enable bottom octave latching keyswitches for on-the-fly microtuning. In this mode, all notes that are microtuned are tuned down a full quarter tone.