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stephenpaulharper · Post by **stephenpaulharper** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 2:06 pm

I need opinions on the best Ethnic soundset, sample cd, downloads - whatever.

I'm not looking for yet another VST (Ra) or loops (Ethno World), just a nice collection of one-shots and/or multi-samples of instruments from various cultures and parts of the world.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Stephen

Armadillo · Post by **Armadillo** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:05 pm

Maybe Origins from Ilio or a sample CD like the Roots from India/South america/Pacific. or "Voices of Instanbul/Native america/Aztec series.

Phil Greens · Post by **Phil Greens** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:21 pm

Have a look at Doru Malaya's website: "http://www.dorumalaia.com/freerefillswavsamples.htm". The free downlaodable examples might convince you to buy the DVD (great sounding samples of real instruments in 16 or 24bit - wav or other formats)

Phil

Phil Greens · Post by **Phil Greens** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:30 pm

Sorry! the link has now been updated:
http://www.dorumalaia2.com/

Phil

precisionsound · Post by **precisionsound** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:33 pm

algodon wrote:I need opinions on the best Ethnic soundset, sample cd, downloads - whatever.

I'm not looking for yet another VST (Ra) or loops (Ethno World), just a nice collection of one-shots and/or multi-samples of instruments from various cultures and parts of the world.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Stephen

Hello!

You can check out our site for multisampled instruments. We have a lot of different stuff.

Best,

Lars

StrangeCat · Post by **StrangeCat** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:57 am

The Best is simply RA the next would be Ethno World 3 those are the best period.

stephenpaulharper · Post by **stephenpaulharper** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:23 pm

Thanks for the replies.

My impression has been that Ra has excellent sound quality, but that you don't get a huge variety, considering the price. Plus, I really don't want yet another VST - really more something that I can use with my current gear (Sampletank, but I can convert several formats).

Ethno World has a bunch of loops (that I don't need) does it not?

Thanks again.

Stephen

loophead · Post by **loophead** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:16 pm

Check out the sample discs from Q-UP Arts (the world) and Northstar (phase4) Both long in the tooth but I have not found better for small libraries (ie non-giga type stuff).

StrangeCat · Post by **StrangeCat** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:52 am

Ethno world 3 has some loops yea But it has tons of great winds and multisamples of instruments! so you could do say World Winds Akai, then RA and you would be set. There really isn't anything that compares to RA. But Ethno World 3 has that Chinese Harp^_-
For bigger sounding drums you go Storm Drums.

Best Ethnic/World Soundsets