Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Where to find good Tin Whistles samples? I want to add a Celtic flavors to my song!

Category: Soundpatch analysis / Link to other useful websites
I surf the web for a long time and finally came to this page, called Raw Acoustic Waves (enter these keyword in Google). You have to submit your email first and finally get an access to the website, where you can find many useful ethnic / world music samples in gigasampler and kontakt format. So if you use another sampler, you have to convert it first using software like Chickensys Translator or Cdextract.

One of the samples is Tin Whistle in Bb. Although the samples were recorded on Bb, but you still can use it in other keys, however the samples may sound slightly out of tune caused by improper interpolation of the sampler you use. The cons likely give the samples more real instrument sounding for me.

I blend it with the solo violin samples from Synful Orchestra, playing the same notes and get an instant melodic Celtic music we usually hear.Other free sound samples that you will find on that sites are for example: Breton Bombarde, Peruvian Tarka Flute, Indian Whistle, Thai Mouth Organ, Indonesian Suling and many other.

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