Ethnic VSTs

[nonie]

I'm really feelin those ethnic sounds right now. If anyone has any links or names of some VSTs with clean ethnic sounds, let me know cuz I don't have any knowledge of that many VSTs besides Trilogy and Sampletank haha.

 

[Elementree]

Hey bro i usually use garriton orchestra for all my ethnic strings but before that I used syntheway strings which are only $35 online and you can get a pretty good indian string bend with the portamento on it. As for alot of other ethnic instruments, most are plucked or struck so soundfonts work great for them. Sometimes you really have to eq the fuck out of the soundfont though to make it sound good. I just use a standard FL soundfont player that has a filter on it so you can also manipulate the attack and release of the soundfont. www.sf2midi.com has some really great sounding fonts. They have alot of ethnic instruments i have aquired that sound crispy such as flutes, kotos, sitars, tamburas, tablas, harps, ect..

I know about how shitty those ethnic sampletank sounds are too. The tambura was the only thing i used out of like 50 instruments.. lol

 

[bobhellbringer]

i've never used it but SwarPlug could be good. google it.

 

[nonie]

Yo thanks Tree. I downloaded some, but I'm still waiting to try them o ut. I'll probably do it tonight while I'm working on some new beats. It seems like some of them aren't that good though. A lot of the reviews I read said a lot of them were whack.

 

[Relic]

Ethnic, heheh... how general...Sounds cool.

 

[StressWon]

Ethnic, heheh... how general...Sounds cool.

lol,,yeah right. "Umm, I was looking for some Mexican sounds,,,you know, it sounds like tables being bused and dishes being washed."

 

[Big Tone]

lol,,yeah right. "Umm, I was looking for some Mexican sounds,,,you know, it sounds like tables being bused and dishes being washed."

holy shit!!!! wtf. that was funny as hell

 

[Elementree]

Id def. download that soundfont!!! Im makin a beat with construction sounds right now like drills, cranes, and hillbilly vocal samples

 

[Nuff B]

i got to hear that tree lol let me know when ur done... check out the sf2 indian instruments on www.sf2midi.com got some great tablas, sitars, saringaa riffs, and koto's.