South American wind samples

[eduardo_b]

I really love some of the wind instruments from the Andes -- quenas, zamporas and toyos -- but have never seen a comprehensive commercial set. I've managed to snap a few wav samples from sites selling the instruments, but nothing done at CD quality resolution. Any suggestions or recommendations?

[precisionsound]

Maybe our upcoming "Bolivian Panpipe" could be of interest?

[eduardo_b]

Maybe our upcoming "Bolivian Panpipe" could be of interest?

I did check out your site and listened to the chimes, which were nice, and the prices are almost too reasonable. Not a Giga guy, but I do have Kontakt 2. Apparently all samples are not offered in multiple formats?

I listened to the panpipe teaser and liked the first third or so, but the sample became a multi-instrument song. I need on-their-own samples. Or was this simply a demo? I think I might be interested.

[precisionsound]

The demos on our site is the multisamples played by keyboard in a musical context. They are all on their own note by note, velocity by velocity. No music phrases.

[eduardo_b]

The demos on our site is the multisamples played by keyboard in a musical context. They are all on their own note by note, velocity by velocity. No music phrases.

Okay, I'd like to be notified (if that's possible) when the pan pipes samples are available. Also, how many samples are in the chimes packages?

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[precisionsound]

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Bottom of the page:
http://www.store.precisionsound.net/index.php

Here is the chimes info page:
http://www.store.precisionsound.net/chimesinfo.php

[eduardo_b]

1. Why do you need wind samples? Synths do a good job

I've never heard a synth-created wind sound that had the hollow tube, breathy qualities of these instruments -- or at least that was as convincing as the real thing. I'd love to have someone prove me wrong with some presets for a synth I have.

2.Why would South American Wind sound different?

They are quite distinctive. I first heard them as background music to a nature film on PBS many years ago -- Flight of the Condor. Very cool sounds.

3.Do you have any rain Samples?

Actually, good rain samples are not easy to come by. Many, at least to me, sound like someone washing dishes or the car. Some enviromental CDs come close to sounding like real rain.

Now I feel silly

Been there, done that.

[eduardo_b]

Here is the chimes info page:
http://www.store.precisionsound.net/chimesinfo.php

So I can import these into Kontakt and save them as non-Giga samples? Never done this before, so I need some advice on this.

[precisionsound]

Yes you can. All our soundfont archives is compatible with EXS24, HALion & Kontakt.
And almost all other SoundFont compatible samplers.

[Improv]

1. Why do you need wind samples? Synths do a good job

I've never heard a synth-created wind sound that had the hollow tube, breathy qualities of these instruments -- or at least that was as convincing as the real thing. I'd love to have someone prove me wrong with some presets for a synth I have.

2.Why would South American Wind sound different?

They are quite distinctive. I first heard them as background music to a nature film on PBS many years ago -- Flight of the Condor. Very cool sounds.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but he seems to think you are looking for the sound of the wind itself (which many synths do well); but you seem to be looking for the sound of wind as it goes through chimes,etc. At least the ones at Precision Sound are more the latter rather than the former.

Am I close?

[eduardo_b]

1. Why do you need wind samples? Synths do a good job

I've never heard a synth-created wind sound that had the hollow tube, breathy qualities of these instruments -- or at least that was as convincing as the real thing. I'd love to have someone prove me wrong with some presets for a synth I have.

2.Why would South American Wind sound different?

They are quite distinctive. I first heard them as background music to a nature film on PBS many years ago -- Flight of the Condor. Very cool sounds.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but he seems to think you are looking for the sound of the wind itself (which many synths do well); but you seem to be looking for the sound of wind as it goes through chimes,etc. At least the ones at Precision Sound are more the latter rather than the former.

Am I close?

Well, sort of. The chimes are totally separate from this. I've been looking for these for some time now.

The Andean instruments are unqiue because of both the sound of the instruments and the hollow sort of wind ambience these instruments have when notes are played. You've probably heard these but maybe didn't know what they were. I certainly didn't until I did some research on music of this region. I've never heard anything like them from a synth, but that's probably more about my skills -- or lack of them -- than about any of the synths I own. It takes a square wave plus a lot of fiddling to come close, but close isn't really the same as the real thing.

[james0tucson]

1. Why do you need wind samples? Synths do a good job

I've never heard a synth-created wind sound that had the hollow tube, breathy qualities of these instruments -- or at least that was as convincing as the real thing. I'd love to have someone prove me wrong with some presets for a synth I have.

2.Why would South American Wind sound different?

They are quite distinctive. I first heard them as background music to a nature film on PBS many years ago -- Flight of the Condor. Very cool sounds.

3.Do you have any rain Samples?

Actually, good rain samples are not easy to come by. Many, at least to me, sound like someone washing dishes or the car. Some enviromental CDs come close to sounding like real rain.

Now I feel silly

Been there, done that.

I got the distinct impression you were being trolled there by Jonny_X asking about "wind" samples not "wind instrument" samples.

[james0tucson]

A convincing armadillo-shell charango would be cool too.

[Herman Witkam]

Free bolivian panpipes, and peruvian Tarka here:
http://www.herman-witkam.com/raw/

I do performances too btw
http://www.herman-witkam.com/audio/road ... _andes.mp3