Traveler Series - Bluegrass Fiddle

STANDARD ARTICULATIONS

• Reel Sustain
• Air Sustain
• Bowed Legato
• Fingered Legato
• Tenuto
• Spiccato
• Pizzicato
• Strummed Pizzicato
• 8th Repetition Shorts
• 8th Repetitions (tempo synced)
• 16th Repetitions (tempo synced)
• Crescendo (short & long, tempo synced)

ORNAMENTS

• Bend Up Fast (HT, WT)
• Bend Up Slow (HT, WT)
• Bend Down Fast (HT, WT)
• Bend Down Slow (HT, WT)
• Bend Turn
• Turn (HT, WT, Min3, Maj3)
• Unisons
• Fall Release

PHRASES & FX

• FX – Percussive
• FX – Fret Noise
• Bend Up Unisons (HT & WT, Fast & Slow)
• Intros
• Chops Rhythms (tempo synced)
• Rhythms (tempo synced)
• Various Phrases

Bluegrass fiddling is a distinctive American style characterized by bold, bluesy improvisation, off-beat “chopping”, and sophisticated use of double stops and old-time bowing patterns. Notes are often slid into, a technique seldom used in Celtic styles. Bluegrass fiddlers tend to ignore the rules that violinists follow: they hold the fiddle the “wrong” way and often don’t use the chin & shoulder rests.

We journeyed right to the heart of the Bluegrass State for our Bluegrass Fiddle – Clay City, Kentucky – to the private studio of one of the most renowned names in Bluegrass music, Rickey Wasson. Rickey hooked us up with a true Bluegrass fiddle legend, multi-instrumentalist Ronnie Stewart. Ronnie has appeared on hundreds of records and toured with some of the genre’s biggest names. Working with Rickey & Ronnie was an honor and an absolute blast

• Deep-sampled Bluegrass fiddle recorded in Clay City, Kentucky by Grammy nominated multi-instrumentalist Ronnie Stewart
• Playable multi-sampled instrument with 12 standard articulations and 14 traditional Bluegrass ornaments
• Over 400 Phrases & FX including rhythmic loops and free-form improvisations
• 2 types of sampled legato
• 4 performance modes including customizable Double Stops
• Scale Lock feature automatically selects ornament intervals in the key of your song
• TACT (Total Articulation Control Technology)
• 8-slot FX rack
• Modern, easy to use, feature-packed GUI
• Watermarked for copy protection
• 1.3 GB of content / 3,435 samples (24 bit/44.1 kHz NCW)

• NI Kontakt (full), version 5.8.1 or above
• 1.5 GB disk space
• 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
• 2008 or later processor. Your system must also meet the requirements for version 5.8.1 of Kontakt. If you cannot run that version, you will not be able to load this library.

Welcome to Red Room Audio’s Traveler Series, an ongoing collection of boutique sample libraries featuring traditional world instruments faithfully recorded on location from destinations around the globe.

Traveler Series libraries focus on delivering a genuine purity that can only be captured where the instrument and musical style originated, preserving its true character and history. We seek out a region’s most skilled and renowned performers; amazing folks with stories and bloodlines who live and breathe traditional provincial music. We leave with an education and appreciation for their culture and the role these beautiful instruments serve (as well as a tale or two of our own). We hope our Traveler Series adds an authentic native spirit to your music.