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carlbe · Post by **carlbe** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 11:32 pm

Howdy folks -

I'm looking to find any samples or sample libraries (pay or free) of animal horn "calls". Shofar, and counch shells would be cool too. Anyone have any ideas?

Cheers
Carl

Baard · Post by **Baard** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 4:15 pm

Try theese..
http://www.starbirthmusic.com/
Under "Instrument Samples"

And theese (not free)
http://www.boldersounds.net/granular-co ... cPath=3_18

Best Regards
Baard

iain_morland · Post by **iain_morland** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 5:40 pm

There are some shell calls in Sounds of Polynesia (available for download from Zero-G), but I'm not sure if it would be worth buying the whole library for them.

Chester Desmond · Post by **Chester Desmond** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 6:12 pm

Bela D has a war horn that is made from an animal horn. It's in the Celtic Winds anthology. It is also available separately to registered Bela D users.

http://www.beladmedia.com

carlbe · Post by **carlbe** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 10:44 pm

thanks - I'll listen to the Shofar horn. The granular-ized conch doesn't fit my production; I do need the more classic hunting horn calls.
The Celtic horn looks interesting - I wish I had a Bela-D library but for some reason I have never bought from them. I'll look more closely at the entire library to see if I can use the other components.

Anyone else? where are all those ram's horns! LOL.

carl

synaesthesia · Post by **synaesthesia** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:56 pm

Have you tried the Freesound project? I would have thought that might have some since I suspect you don't want to spend several hundred pounds/dollars on ethnic libraries to pick up the odd conch horn!

Reverend Rhythm · Post by **Reverend Rhythm** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:02 pm

carlbe wrote:Howdy folks -

I'm looking to find any samples or sample libraries (pay or free) of animal horn "calls". Shofar, and counch shells would be cool too. Anyone have any ideas?

Cheers
Carl

Whenever you find what you're looking for, please post back. I'd like to see the conclusion.

Baard · Post by **Baard** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:07 pm

carlbe wrote:thanks - I'll listen to the Shofar horn. The granular-ized conch doesn't fit my production

I was under the impression that the granularized conch also had natural samples of the shell, but I am on deep water here (pun intended), as I never heard one, I just knew about the patch.

As for flutes of bones and horns, "Early Patches" has a consort of Gemshorns (which sound more like flutes), and "Banchetto Musicale" has a signal horn. I just ordered Banchetto, so I cant speak for quality, but I do own Early Patches, and I find it very good indeed. As I understand it, Banchetto has even better quality, and for me their consort of Krummhorns is worth half the price. (Btw.. its on sale for two more days)

Check out www.soundbytes.de for some very inspiring sounds.

synaesthesia · Post by **synaesthesia** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:09 pm

Actually, whilst I'm thinking about it... it's a shame that Herman Witkam disbanded his RAW ethnic instrurments pages, as that had a very nice Midwinterhorn on it which would have been right up your alley and was free too.

Not entirely helpful, but if Herman ever Googles his own name, he might see this and have a think!

C00kie · Post by **C00kie** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:17 pm

synaesthesia wrote:Have you tried the Freesound project?

+1.
http://www.freesound.org/searchText.php and enter "conch" instead of counch. The snailhorn sample could be very useful...

carlbe · Post by **carlbe** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:47 am

LOL - wow I can't even spell "conch"! Actually the conch is not getting there for me, but this shofar is exactly what I want - this recording is distorted beyond help, but hits the mark perfectly.

thanks for pointing to freesound, I forgot about them. There is a fairly good "shophar" there - sjofar.wav (how many ways are there to spell 'shofar'?)
If I pitch this down a bit it should be passable.
Also I haven't converted in Kontakt the gigasampler set of the Shofar mentioned earlier in the thread and that indeed may also do the trick.

I didn't find anything else that met my "hunting horn" idea on freesound - there are some brass fanfares but not what I need.

I'm not too surprised that there isn't a bunch of professional level recording libs of just these "animal horn" calls. I have some large SFX collections and didn't find it there either... But I thank you all for the pointers.

Maybe the MircoHammer folks will take pity on me in the next few weeks and record a shofar!!

carl (now looking for his old freesound login)

nielsdolieslager · Post by **nielsdolieslager** » Fri Jan 05, 2018 10:51 pm

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nielsdolieslager · Post by **nielsdolieslager** » Fri Jan 05, 2018 10:52 pm

nielsdolieslager wrote:on sale until the Jan 21 2018

http://tangentedgeinstruments.com/produ ... -trumpets/

carlbe · Post by **carlbe** » Fri Jan 05, 2018 11:22 pm

- I don't know what to say - LOL.
It's been 8 years since I needed them but hey - this is neat!

Cheers
Carl

nielsdolieslager · Post by **nielsdolieslager** » Fri Jan 05, 2018 11:31 pm

See? You know what to say, thanks

I mostly posted here because other people might google the same question. That's how I found this thread

Listened to the videos? There's also a free version you can download

Samples of Animal horns, Counch Shells?