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Yemenite
Sonokinetic’s very unique and one of a kind, richly sampled Middle Eastern vocal library. It captures both the mysterious beauty from the female voice and the impressive magic of the Mesopotamian male voice. Whether you need to create an authentic Middle Eastern composition, or just add some spice and originality to any production, Tigris & Euphrates provides the necessary elements to set your music apart. These intriguing melodies and phrase improvisations will give you a broad range of diversity in your composition.
We’ve gone all the way and recorded all Middle Eastern melodic styles. It is available in all western contemporary harmonies. These melodic phrases, words , melody lines and many of vocal and Middle Estern sfx can easily be triggered and comes with a dedicated scripted interferface for Konakt 4.1.
Sonokinetic pushes the limit to capture a generic soundscape with a wide selection of user-friendly, easy to use collection of Middle Eastern vocal samples.
We wish you the best inspiration and creativity
But enough talking, let the music speak.
Review: Computer Music Magazine Sept. 2010 – score: 9/10 Testimonial: “Very creative, inventive sounds and beautiful use of ambient space in the mix! This library would be perfect for scoring a sequel to “The Fifth Element” ” – Bill Brown
Responsibility disclosure; We have been touched by the generosity and warm felt friendship of the Muslim community. We have been treated with much respect and given all freedom to record inside the mosque during live prayer sessions. All the texts are about love, friendship and peace. We would like apply to the users respect for these texts and use them in a properly fashion. The proper use of this library is the sole responsibility of the user.
Disclaimer: Middle Eastern music theory and character is very different form western music.
Due to it’s many microtones used in these makams. But as a general reference we found that a lot of our minor and major keys go well with these samples. We specifically applied western tuning while recording these samples. For instance, the root key goes well with major as the 4th and 5th go well in minor. But all these harmonic references are interchangeable and can be combined to create thousands of original combinations. The full potential of this sample library is yet to be unleashed.
What’s in this volume:
- Base samples: 2 Voices; 1 male , 1 female. Ottoman empire / Mesopotamian styled sound
chanting, singing, whispering, talking; phrases and elements - 12 instruments , 1 Multi instruments for Kontakt 4.2.4 with up to 5 tab screens -
Main View, Convolution, Envelope, Scale Indicator and a credits tab: - Convolution reverb applied to all patches. 3 rooms available
- Envelope Editor: Attack, decay, sustain and release knobs
- Scale indicator: key zone linked. Generic harmony view with tone distances
- 2370+ samples. (2,21 GB sample content)
- 7 recorded vocal styles. The most commonly used melodic styles:
Hicaz, Huseyni, Kurdili Hicazkar, Nihavent, Rast, Saba and Segah. These are applied to songs and chants. - Male folder: Chants & Songs in all keys, voice effects; whispered and spoken texts (ancient Mesopothamiam poems).
Chants are wordless melody lines, Songs contain words. - Female folder: Chants & Songs in all keys, voice effects; whispered and spoken texts (ancient Mesopothamiam poems) ,
special folder with traditional Kurdish songs and shouted words & sentences. - Song and chant patches programmed key switches linked to the harmony root.
With corresponding interface views. Root harmony and scales are presented for each key zone. - “Zilgit”, another very exclusive one of kind original Middle Eastern recording. Female traditional celebration shouts / yelling / singing.
- Time stretching patches. (NKI + _time); all male and female chants and songs are available with
pitch bend function to slow down and speed up the phrases and melody lines. - 3 impulse responses: 24 bit wave format. Large Istanbul Dome Mosque, smaller dome mosque and Turkish empirical hall.
- Interface installer: “Tigris&Euphtrates_interfaces_installer” for mac,pc and manual installation.
- Royalty and copyright free content license.
- License and Usage Agreement for Tigris and Euphrates
- Artwork : “Tigris & Euphrates” dvd cover. Designed by Pavel Fuksa
- Demos & Promos: Michal Cielecki, Lorenzo Pigicci, Bill Thompson, Till Sommer , Erik Ekholm, Verbal Vigilante and Sonokinetic.
Format:
- All files in 48 kHz
- 24 Bit Wave
- Programmed for Kontakt 4.2.4 and higher
Kontakt interface features:
Main view: keyswitches, key zones for makam styles, harmonic root and style labels
- Red zones: Keys witches. All patches start at B0 when loaded. So the root harmony when loaded is tuned in western well tempered root key “B”. Green zones: Breathing sfx samples
- Blue & cyan zones: All makam styles are mapped alphabetically in groups as follows:
- Hicaz (sample abbreviation: H)
- Huseyni (sample abbreviation: HS)
- Kurdili Hicazkar (sample abbreviation: KH)
- Nihavent (sample abbreviation: N)
- Rast (sample abbreviation: R)
- Saba (sample abbreviation: S)
- Segah (sample abbreviation: SG)
- Labels: When a blue or cyan colored key is pressed, a label appears above the wood carved emblem at the bottom right of the interface to show which Makam style is applied. For a detailed scale view refer to the “Scale indicator tab”. Notice: When there is no style available in the chosen root key it starts with the first in line. The same is applied when one is missing in between. It jumps to the next in line.
Convolution view: three Ottoman empire halls (Mosques and imperial hall)
- Impulse Response: by pressing the wooden buttons above the IR picture another of the three available rooms is activated.
- Available IR’s
- Suleyman Ye Mosque: Largest dome marble mosque (cathedral-like)
- Hagia Sophia Mosque: Mid size dome stone mosque
- Royal Hall: Mid size stone/granite imperial Ottoman hall
- Envelope view: full A-D-S-R modulation (attack, decay, sustain & release)
- With this tab models the full sample set ADSR. So all groups are affected by changing these setting. To keep the your custom setting please resave the patch. Next time when loaded it load the custom settings. (Consider renaming to have a backup when needed)
Scale indicator: linked to the style key zones. Presented with individual note intervals.
- The scale indicator is linked to the key zones colored blue and cyan. When pressed the corresponding makam style and its harmonic translation is displayed and stays displayed until another makam style is activated.
Note: Middle Eastern music theory and character is very different form western music.
Due to it’s many microtones used in these makams. But as a general reference we found that a lot of our minor and major keys go well with these samples. We specifically applied western tuning while recording these samples. For instance, the root key goes well with major as the 4th and 5th go well in minor. But all these harmonic references are interchangeable and can be combined to create thousands of original combinations. The full potential of this sample library is yet to be unleashed.
Composed and performed with dedicated care and ear by professional musicians and composers.
Listen to the demos
Promo “Mesopothamia – Short teaster”: scored by Lorenzo Pigicci
- MAC & PC
- Compatible with Kontakt 4 – Full version of Kontakt is required. ( This library is NOT compatible with Free Kontakt Player )
- All files in 48 kHz, 24 Bit wave format
- For more information or support please check our FAQ or support service
- Available as DOWNLOAD ONLY!
1) Remove the Instruments and Multis folder and the content in these folders from your 1.Base folder
2) replace them with the folders (including the content) from “THIS GOES IN 1.BASE” folder
3) Do the same for 2.ADDITIONALS and replace the documents folderBUGLIST:
-Timemachine updates
-Patches cleaned
-Text updates
Note: we discontinued the Morphious patches.
If you like to keep them , make sure to backup those before trashing your instruments folders.
Sonokinetic | Tigris & Euphrates: Voices Of The Ottoman Empire
Sample Library
Reviews : Sample / Sound / Song Library
Simon Langford
There are relatively few sample collections released these days that focus specifically on vocals, and even fewer that deal with Middle Eastern vocals in the same depth as this library from Sonokinetic. Indeed, with a size of over 3GB there is plenty to play with… so play with it I did!
The samples themselves are grouped into folders of Male, Female and ‘Specials’, and there are also Kontakt 4 presets and multis. For both sets of samples, there are further groups of Chants, Makam and SFX, with both the Chants and Makam groups being further subdivided by musical key. Within the Kontakt patches are key-switches that quickly allow you to choose different root notes, and which will alter the samples played accordingly. There’s also a handful of patches with various background noises and sound effects, for added atmosphere. First impressions were that they definitely invoked images of sand dunes and noisy bazaars.
this is a valuable addition to the sound library of anybody working in film, TV or games, and even those working with more esoteric music.
October 2010 – Reviewed Tigris & Euphrates (DUTCH!)
UPDATE INSTRUCTIONS:
Download Interface Update
1) Extract zip file
you’ll find these files and folders: (example for Voices of Israel)
2) Delete the “instruments” folder from your original library:
3) Move or copy the “instruments” and .nkc & nkr files to your original library folder:
Download Time Machine Pro Updates (Kontakt 5 only)
1) Extract the zip file
2) You’ll find patches with “K5″ added to the title
move or copy the “K5 instruments” to your original library “Instruments” folder:
DONE!
Enjoy this update
Release Notes:
GUI Kontakt 5
Kontakt 5 updates are configured with Timemachine Pro pre settings and labeled as TMP (Disclaimer: these Kontakt 5 Patches use a lot of memory, make sure you are running sufficient resources to load these updates. Tested on Macbook Pro i5, 8 GB RAM)
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