8DIO has released Bulbul Tarang (aka Indian Banjo), a new Kontakt-format library, announced their Biggest Sale of the Year, and also an iPad2 + 8Dio Product Giveaway for subscribers to their newsletter.

Mega Sale
No details yet but 8DIO say to check out their website between Friday (11/25) to Saturday (11/27) as "It's gonna go nuts and we want you to join the party".

iPad Giveaway
8DIO are also celebrating the season of love with custom iPad2 and 8Dio product giveaways. Simply sign up for their newsletter and you'll be entered into a drawing for the following gifts:

• 1st Winner = Custom iPad2 + 500$ 8Dio Products.
• 2nd Winner = $500 8Dio Products.
• 3rd Winner = $250 8Dio Products.

The winners will be announced on 8DIO's website on December 25th, 2011. Winners are randomly drawn from their newsletter. Sign up for newsletter here.

Bulbul Tarang (aka Indian Banjo)

The Bulbul Tarang (aka Indian Banjo) is a 15 string instrument common in India and Pakistan. The instrument employs three sets of strings - a double set of melodic strings and two sets of drone strings. The melodic strings contains a bass- and treble-string. 8DIO deep-sampled both of strings individually and combined with multiple velocity layers on each string and round robin on the sustains. The drone strings are divided into group of 10 and group of 3. 8DIO deep sampled these guys too at multiple velocity layers and 10 round robin per layer.

The Bulbul also contains a variety of other deep-sampled articulations, including drone strings in both minor and major scales, muted notes on melodic strings, tremolo, typewriter keystyle and a wide assortment of FX. Additionally 8DIO added a large phrase collection focused on strums. The strums comes both as multi-samples and as phrase-samples, so you can create the ideal soundscape depending on your needs.

Summary:

• Deep Sampled 15 Stringed Indian Banjo.
• Deep Sampled Melodic Strings (Treble, Bass & Combined).
• Deep Sampled Drone Strings (Resonators).
• Deep Phrase Sampled BPM Strums.
• Bonus: Melodic Phrase Patches.
• Bonus: Ambient and Emotional Bulbul Drones.

Pricing & Availability

Bulbul Tarang has an introductory price of $99 (goes $139 on 11/25). It will be available on 11/23 for direct (cloud based) download at www.8dio.com. It requires the Full Retail Version of Kontakt 4.2+ / 5+.

Check out www.8dio.com for more information, demos, videos and offers.