ChineeErhu VSTi released!

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Kong Audio proudly presents the third product of the Chinee Series line: ChineeErhu.

Dongsheng Shan, the developer behind the well-received ChineeWinds and ChineeKong V2, this time chose to re-animate Erhu in the VSTi sampling
world.

Erhu is a bowed instrument with two strings, originally dated back to Tang Dynasty(7th century A.D.), and is still being widely used today all over China in all kinds of music, from movie scores to opera. It's one of the most representative classical Chinese instruments nowadays. It's also very popular in the whole Asia.

Erhu has a special synthetic flavour which is drastically different from the Western violin. Whilst violin sounds like a splendid soprano in a grand musical, Erhu tells her life story in a hoarse tone from the dark alley. This gives Erhu an unique sound character that's like nothing else.

For the musicians who are after the purist Chinese sound, ChineeErhu is a must-have. For the musicians who are after exotic and inspirational string sound, ChineeErhu fits the need as well.


Three different genre of demo songs featuring ChineeErhu:

Audio demo 1(slow, orchestral) - by HuangXu

Audio demo 2(fast, pop rock) - by HuangXu

Audio demo 3(classical Erhu) - by Greg Schlaepfer

Kong Audio recorded the sessions with a distinguished Erhu musician, Mr. YuSheng Liu(who has won in several national/provincial Erhu competitions), to capture the nuance and brilliance of various delicate Erhu playing techniques.

ChineeErhu contains extensive alternative expressions of legato, vibrato, F-p-F, staccatos, pizzicato, tremolos, glide and trills, cleverly woven and programmed to be used with MIDI aftertouch/modwheel, along with the keyswitch feature provided by the plugin, to bring the users the most lively articulations as easily accessible as possible.

System requirements and specs:

Windows 98/ME/2000/XP. 256mb RAM. *Windows platform only

All samples are recorded in 24bit 44.1khz.
The Playback samplerate is 16bit, 44.1khz.

*registered users of other Chinee Series plugins should have received special discount info. Drop us a line if you haven't received it.

[Stairsteps]

indeed very nice sounding and very useful even in rap or r&b eps to add that middle eastern touch or should I say far east.