I’m proud to announce that the sampling project I have been working on with my good friend & business partner Will Roget, II is finally complete! Entitled Sitar Nation: Classical Instruments of India, this Kontakt-format sample collection contains over 2.7gb of the most detailed sitar, tampura, tabla and baya samples ever released. Our goal was to really focus on extensively sampling a select number of instruments, doing lots of articulations, velocities, round robins, multiple mic positions - the type of depth you would normally expect from a piano or violin library.

Sitar Nation was released through our company, Impact Soundworks, and it is now available for download at a price of $119. You can listen to demos at the product page as well as read much more about the samples and what was recorded. I’m very happy to have been part of this project and since its release a little over a week ago, it has been doing very well. Whether you’re a professional composer, producer, or hobbyist, I think you’ll really enjoy these sounds, which not only include traditional timbres, but highly processed and scripted patches as well.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 at 10:34 am and is filed under Sounds.