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peterdh · Post by **peterdh** » Mon Aug 29, 2022 2:49 pm

I like my Ethnic instruments of Omnisphere and NI Komplete 12. In search for more, I discovered Best Service “Forest Kingdom 3” and “Ethno World 6 Complete”, UVI “World Suite 2” and Garritan “World Instruments”. Which World Music software do you consider best? I favor patches like: Flutes, mallets, singing of non-lexical vocables, guitars, percussion and hybrids (layered sounds as found in Omnisphere). Searching for instrument patches, no loops or patterns.

Krakatau · Post by **Krakatau** » Mon Aug 29, 2022 4:23 pm

Swarplug for indian instruments

www.swarsystems.com

Volko Audio for middle-east instruments

www.volkoaudio.com

BTW these are culture-bounded companies in the VST market

peterdh · Post by **peterdh** » Tue Aug 30, 2022 6:22 am

fairlyclose · Post by **fairlyclose** » Tue Aug 30, 2022 8:34 am

I like UVI world suite 2,soniccouture Gamelan, evolution series have some beautiful instruments as does Three Body Tech, AMA1 from the amazonic is incredible

mixyguy2 · Post by **mixyguy2** » Tue Aug 30, 2022 5:11 pm

All of these are free except the Bar Chimes, which is cheap and all IMO good:

Flutes: Fluffy Audios' Xaxophone
Percussion: Healing Lite, Thai Gongs and Chau Gongs by Alan Vista, Quik Quak's Bar Chimes
Strings: Fluffy Audio's Koto and Khim (a hammered dulcimer), Nu Guzheng. I also have a plugin simply called "Zither" which is IMO good for that instrument as well (I'll have to check who made it later).
Misc: Dr Tikov's Jew Harp

And of course there are numerous patches in numerous synths.

peterdh · Post by **peterdh** » Wed Aug 31, 2022 9:08 am

Thanks for your replies. Bump.

Dencheg · Post by **Dencheg** » Wed Aug 31, 2022 4:37 pm

May be Chromaphone will pass the test? It's a modeler, can produce pretty convincing mallets or other instruments with non-string vibrating elements

rasmusklump · Post by **rasmusklump** » Wed Aug 31, 2022 4:49 pm

UVI World Suite 2.

peterdh · Post by **peterdh** » Wed Aug 31, 2022 6:17 pm

Dencheg wrote: Wed Aug 31, 2022 4:37 pm May be Chromaphone will pass the test? It's a modeler, can produce pretty convincing mallets or other instruments with non-string vibrating elements

Got version 1,2 and 3. Use it a lot.

peterdh · Post by **peterdh** » Thu Sep 01, 2022 10:10 am

Read some similar topics on the internet and found the following VSTi's: Lots of Eduardo Tarilonte, some titles of Spitfire Audio, Evolution Series World Percussion core and EastWest RA.

Krakatau · Post by **Krakatau** » Thu Sep 01, 2022 12:54 pm

Eastwest SILK too, the work is more recent than RA . better quality IMO

peterdh · Post by **peterdh** » Sun Sep 04, 2022 9:35 pm

Found a new one: MOTU Ethno Instrument 2 https://motu.com/products/software/ethno/body.html . And bump.

mixyguy2 · Post by **mixyguy2** » Fri Sep 23, 2022 9:04 pm

Sample Science has a nice freebie zither FYI: https://www.samplescience.info/2022/09/ ... sance.html

Stefken · Post by **Stefken** » Fri Sep 23, 2022 11:45 pm

Sound magic has some nice stuff as e.g. their China ensemble.
On sale now.

https://neovst.com/product/china-ensemble/

jamcat · Post by **jamcat** » Fri Sep 23, 2022 11:48 pm

mixyguy2 wrote: Tue Aug 30, 2022 5:11 pm Quik Quak's Bar Chimes

Seems to be abandonware, unfortunately.
And no word from quikquak about its future.

It's not even 64-bit on Mac.
Too bad, too, because a lot of MODO DRUM users like myself would have purchased it.

Best World Music Vsti