This is useful when you don’t know much about Indian music and have the instrument but struggle to get a more genuine sound. It comes with many traditional Indian scales and, also, the well-known major and minor scales. This feature allows you to set a scale for the melodic instruments. You can control the tone with the two EQ knobs, adjust everything in the mixer ( including the reverb with a send channel ), and many more features. Users get a lot of control over the sound and yet don’t get overwhelmed as they’re very easy to manipulate. But also, the MIDI mapping is designed to make it easy for the users to get a realistic performance using the modwheel, pitch bend, and key switches to get different articulations and add ornaments. We can tell a lot of hard work was put into sampling these instruments by how good they sound. It’s also worth mentioning that NI went the extra mile sampling these instruments, not only conforming with basic hits/plucks/blows but also going deep with different ornaments for each of them to make sure the instruments not only sound authentic but also like a real musician is playing them. With India, Native Instruments surprised us with this fantastic selection of traditional instruments divided into two sections: percussion (dhol, dholak, ghatam, kanjira, khol, mridangam, pakhawaj, and tabla) and melodic (bansuri, harmonium, santur, sitar, tanpura, and tumbi). This Kontakt library is part of Native Instrument’s Spotlight Collection (previously known as Discovery Series), which, as its name indicates, is a set of collections of traditional instruments from many different cultures in an attempt to capture their sound. Some of the plugins and libraries listed also contain other instruments to help you achieve that Indian sound, and we’ll soon get to that. Luckily, technology has given us VST instruments with quality of sound and performance as good as the real thing. Also, a person who can play it is hard to find. īut there’s an issue, sitars aren’t that easy to find they’re not just an instrument that you can go and purchase in any music store. In this article, we’ll discuss the VST plugins for the sitar, the most representative instrument of Indian culture.Įver since its introduction to western pop culture in 1966, thanks to The Beatles (Love You To) and The Rolling Stones (Paint It Black), many producers and composers – mystified by its unique sound – have sought to add the sitar to their music, whether they’re working on a project that contains music inspired by Indian tradition or adding an “Indian vibe” to a song, or experiment with its sound and possibilities.
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