ANCIENT BUNDLE

Journey through the sounds the world

Unleash the sounds of forgotten realms with Ancient Kingdom, a brand-new virtual instrument collection produced by Doug Rogers and Nick Phoenix and featuring world-renowned recording artist Saulius Petreikis playing his rare selection of wind instruments from around the world. With four groundbreaking effects signal paths in addition to pristine multi-mic recordings, step into the unknown and let Ancient Kingdom transport your music into a dimension where the past meets the future and the spirits of lost worlds come to life with every note.

Ancient Kingdom’s intuitive user interface invites you to explore the primal essence of rare wind instruments while forging into transcendent sonic realms. Anchored by a vivid Center Display with striking 3D instrument models and immersive landscapes representing their origins, its interface offers effortless command over instrument libraries, articulations, multi-mic configurations, and more. The Left Panel empowers you to shape the sound with versatile Mood presets, powerful performance scripts, and precise MIDI controls, while the Right Panel transforms ancient tones into otherworldly textures through innovative FX mixes, convolution reverbs, and flexible channel routing.

Ancient Kingdom features 26 instrument categories, each with an array of highly detailed instrument articulations and combinations across a range of instrument type sub-categories that includes Long, Short, Effects, Legato, and Keyswitch.

RA- EastWest/Quantum Leap RA provides composers with access to a variety of rare and unique instruments from Africa, Europe, India, the Americas and Australia, the Far East, and the Middle East and Turkish Empires. Musicians will find that RA has an amazing sound quality and they'll marvel at the articulation of each instrument which has a wide range that goes from controlled to expressive. All of the instruments and ensembles featured in the collection were sampled extensively as a means of preserving the true character and expression of each instrument. For the first time, users will have more control over the sounds offered in the collection along with the ability to load even more instruments than ever before.

All instruments featured in SILK are multi-sampled with extreme attention to detail offering the maximum in expression. EastWest/Quantum Leap SILK contains extensive articulations, interval sampling (where appropriate), round robin (alternate samples), legato scripting, and phrases to give the feeling of smooth effortless performance - like silk. Each musician recorded for SILK is a master of his instrument, providing the best and most accurate sound available. SILK also allows users to adapt the instruments using dozens of useful micro tunings in the key of their choice. This microtuning system is the first of it's kind, and is a true breakthrough for OPUS.

GYPSY features a collection of extremely detailed Gypsy style virtual instruments capable of playing completely realistic performances. Gypsy is essential for film, TV and game composers. The nylon string guitar, violin and trombone can play in both Gypsy and Classical styles. In the classical realm these three instruments are unparalleled in the sampling world in terms of playability, diversity and sound quality. The new king of sampled violins has arrived. The violin and trombone feature many articulations, repetitions and even true legato intervals. All of the guitars were sampled with up and down strokes, many velocities and picking styles, release trails, chords and effects. GYPSY's guitars sound incredible and were played by one of the best session guitarists in Los Angeles, David Kole.

Features

Ancient Kingdom:
Armenian duduk- AVAILABLE IN A, C, AND G
Bansuri- traditional Indian bamboo flute, known for its warm, airy timbre?
Birbyne-(AVAILABLE IN A AND DB) a traditional Lithuanian woodwind instrument, typically made of wood, with a pure, nasal timbre
Dambrelis- a traditional Lithuanian jaw harp made from metal or bamboo, which produces sound by plucking a flexible tongue while holding the frame against the teeth or lips
Double shepherd flute- a traditional Slavic double flute, made from wood and consisting of two parallel pipes
Flugelhorn- a brass instrument with origins in Germany, known for its smooth, lyrical sound and rich timbre
Fujara (AVAILABLE IN HIGH AND LARGE) a large Slovakian overtone flute made from wood, producing a deep, resonant timbre with natural overtones
Goat Horn- traditional Lithuanian wind instrument featuring a simple design with a few finger holes
Goat Horn Ebony- a modern variation of the traditional goathorn, crafted from dense, dark ebony wood instead of animal horn
Hulushi (AVAILABLE IN HIGH AND LOW) a traditional Chinese free-reed wind instrument featuring a gourd wind chamber and bamboo pipes, including one main melody pipe
Irish Whistle (AVAILABLE IN REGULAR AND HIGH) simple six-holed woodwind instrument that produces a bright, clear tone, capable of expressive ornamentation
Labanoro duda- a unique and rare Lithuanian bagpipe traditionally associated with the Labanoras region
Native American Cedar Flute (AVAILABLE IN FLUTE AND PICCOLO) a traditional wind instrument used by Indigenous peoples of North America, known for its breathy, warm timbre and haunting, deeply
RA:
Intelligent performance section including portamento, repetition, legato
Features round robin reset
Offers improved articulation window and controls
State-of-the-art convolution reverb with pre-delay
The instruments featured in the OPUS Editions are newly-programmed for OPUS from the original recordings
SILK:
25 GB instrument: 20 GB's of multi-samples and 5 GB's of authentic performances
Recorded legato intervals for erhu, zhonghu, jinhu, electric cello, kemenche, duduk, 30 piece string section, dilruba, bansuri?
Master musicians recorded at East West Studios, using vintage Neumann microphones, Neve consoles and Meitner converters
The OPUS interface features state of the art convolution reverb, scripting and a new revolutionary micro-tuning system
Gypsy:
11 GB of samples spread across violin, trombone, multiple guitars, accordions and more?
Fast and slow true legato violin slides for maximum playability and authenticity
Comes preloaded with optimal settings for out-of-the box performance, minimizing time spent tweaking and mixing
Traditional percussion and flamenco dancer foot stomps and castanets