Traveler Series: Gypsy Fiddle

• Deep-sampled Gypsy fiddle recorded in Sofia, Bulgaria by violinist Stoimen Peev
• Playable multi-sampled instrument
• 20 standard & extended articulations
• 15 traditional Gypsy ornaments
• Over 650 Phrases & FX including hundreds of 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
• 4.4 GB of content / 10,562 samples (24 bit/44.1 kHz NCW)

CORE & EXTENDED ARTICULATIONS

• Sustain
• Sustain – Prog Vib
• Sustain – Accented
• Legato
• Portamento
• Trill (minor, major)
• Spiccato
• Pizzicato
• Gypsy Sustain
• Gypsy Trill (minor, major)
• Gypsy Tenuto
• 8th Rep.
• 16th Rep. (normal, 2x)
• 16th Rep. Spiccato (normal, 2x)
• Bartok Pizzicato
• Sforzando (2 lengths)
• Decrescendo

ORNAMENTS

• Horse (2 variations)
• Ghost (up & down)
• Passion
• Slide Up (minor, major, long)
• Flourish (2 variations)
• Czardas
• Pull Off
• Hammer On
• Triplet
• Crescendo Release

PHRASES & FX

• FX – Percussive
• FX – Chops
• FX – Fiddler Whistles
• FX – Fiddler Shouts
• FX – String Noise
• FX – Scrapes
• Energetic Improvs
• Lyrical Improvs
• Polyphonic Improvs
• Romani Improvs
• Runs & Arpeggios

Gypsy fiddle playing is known the world over for its passion, romance and virtuosity and the music is synonymous with the campfire and the open road. Gypsy fiddlers tend to be highly skilled. Their playing swoops dramatically from the highest to the lowest positions, using cascades of arpeggios, chromatic runs, harmonics, pizzicato, exaggerated vibrato and extreme ornamentation.

For our Gypsy Fiddle we traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria where we had the pleasure of working with renowned violinist Stoimen Peev. Stoimen is a member of the elite Sofia Soloists and Sofia Quartet ensembles as well as the Sofia Session Orchestra & Choir and has performed classical and traditional Bulgarian music all over the world. Our lively sessions were superbly directed by co-producer George Strezov and engineer Ivan Boshev at “The Bakery” studios in Sofia.

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.

• NI Kontakt (full), version 5.8.1 or above
• 5 GB disk space
• 4 GB RAM (8 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.

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