Description

Proudly presenting, Sonokinetic’s very unique and one of a kind, richly sampled Middle Eastern vocal library.

It captures both the mysterious beauty from the female voice and the impressive magic of the Mesopotamian male voice. Whether you need to create an authentic Middle Eastern composition, or just add some spice and originality to any production, Tigris & Euphrates provides the necessary elements to set your music apart. These intriguing melodies and phrase improvisations will give you a broad range of diversity in your composition.

We’ve gone all the way and recorded all Middle Eastern melodic styles. It is available in all western contemporary harmonies. These melodic phrases, words, melody lines and many of the vocal and Middle Estern sfx can easily be triggered and come with a dedicated scripted interface for Konakt 4.1.


Testimonial:
“Very creative, inventive sounds and beautiful use of ambient space in the mix! This library would be perfect for scoring a sequel to “The Fifth Element”
– Bill Brown: composer, CSI: NY, The Devil's Tomb, Trapped


Tigris & Euphrates Release Promo Video:



Sonokinetic pushes the limit to capture a generic soundscape with a wide selection of user-friendly, easy to use collection of Middle Eastern vocal samples.


Promo “Mesopothamia – Short teaster”: scored by Lorenzo Pigicci




KONTANKT INTERFACE FEATURES

Main view: keyswitches, key zones for makam styles, harmonic root and style labels

Red zones: Keys witches. All patches start at B0 when loaded. So the root harmony when loaded is tuned in western well tempered root key “B”.

Green zones: Breathing sfx samples

Blue & cyan zones: All makam styles are mapped alphabetically in groups as follows:
1. Hicaz (sample abbreviation: H)
2. Huseyni (sample abbreviation: HS)
3. Kurdili Hicazkar (sample abbreviation: KH)
4. Nihavent (sample abbreviation: N)
5. Rast (sample abbreviation: R)
6. Saba (sample abbreviation: S)
7. Segah (sample abbreviation: SG)

Labels: When a blue or cyan colored key is pressed, a label appears above the wood carved emblem at the bottom right of the interface to show which Makam style is applied. For a detailed scale view refer to the “Scale indicator tab”.
Notice: When there is no style available in the chosen root key it starts with the first in line. The same is applied when one is missing in between. It jumps to the next in line.

Convolution view: three Ottoman empire halls (Mosques and imperial hall)

Impulse Response: by pressing the wooden buttons above the IR picture another of the three available rooms is activated.

Available IR’s
1. Suleyman Ye Mosque: Largest dome marble mosque (cathedral-like)
2. Hagia Sophia Mosque: Mid size dome stone mosque
3. Royal Hall: Mid size stone/granite imperial Ottoman hall

Envelope view: full A-D-S-R modulation (attack, decay, sustain & release)

With this tab models the full sample set ADSR. So all groups are affected by changing these setting. To keep your custom setting please resave the patch. Next time when loaded it loads the custom settings. (Consider renaming to have a backup when needed)

Scale indicator: linked to the style key zones. Presented with individual note intervals.

The scale indicator is linked to the key zones colored blue and cyan. When pressed the corresponding makam style and its harmonic translation is displayed and stays displayed until another makam style is activated.

For a detailed reference to each makam, we strongly advise to read our “Historical and musical origins” documentation.

Note: Middle Eastern music theory and character is very different form western music. Due to it’s many microtones used in these makams. But as a general reference we found that a lot of our minor and major keys go well with these samples. We specifically applied western tuning while recording these samples. For instance, the root key goes well with major as the 4th and 5th go well in minor. But all these harmonic references are interchangeable and can be combined to create thousands of original combinations. The full potential of this sample library is yet to be unleashed.


Additional Information:

Responsibility disclosure
We have gone a long way to record the Holy Scriptures in the “Mosque” samples (Mosque NKI). We have been touched by the generosity and warm felt friendship of the Muslim community. We have been treated with much respect and given all freedom to record inside the mosque during live prayer sessions. All the texts are about love, friendship and peace. We would like apply to the users respect for these texts and use them in a properly fashion. And take notice that the use of these “Holy texts” can be offensive to the Muslim community if applied in the wrong fashion. With that said, Sonokinetic is not responsible for any mistreatment of any of these samples of the Holy Quran texts in any context and we distance ourselves from these misinterpretations. The proper use of this library is the sole responsibility of the user. This disclosure only applies to those texts that are marked as “Texts from Holy Quran”. This is found only in the “Male_fx_Mosque_holy_prayers.nki”.

Contents

Format:

All files in 48 kHz

24 Bit wave format

Programmed for Kontakt 4.1 (64bit)

You get 2750+ samples. (3,59GB) of downloadable content organized into x5 450MB and x1 218MB downloadable files (Note: files will remain available for downloading in your Order History for 7 days after purchase)

Content Overview:

Core samples: 2 Voices; 1 male , 1 female. Ottoman empire / Mesopotamian styled sound chanting, singing, whispering, talking; phrases and elements

16 instruments , 4 Multi instruments for Kontakt 4.1. with up to 5 tab screens - Main View, Convolution, Envelope, Scale Indicator and a credits tab

Convolution reverb applied to all patches. 3 rooms available

Envelope Editor: Attack, decay, sustain and release knobs

Scale indicator: key zone linked. Generic harmony view with tone distances

2750+ samples. (3,59GB sample content)

7 recorded vocal styles. The most commonly used melodic styles: Hicaz, Huseyni, Kurdili Hicazkar, Nihavent, Rast, Saba and Segah. These are applied to songs and chants.

Male folder: Chants & Songs in all keys, voice effects; whispered and spoken texts (ancient Mesopothamiam poems). Chants are wordless melody lines, Songs contain words.

Female folder: Chants & Songs in all keys, voice effects; whispered and spoken texts (ancient Mesopothamiam poems), special folder with traditional Kurdish songs and shouted words & sentences.

Environment ambiences. Live morning prayers recordings in a big Middle Eastern City.

Morning“Ottoman” city ambiences (“Istanbul waking up”).

Song and chant patches programmed key switches linked to the harmony root. With corresponding interface views. Root harmony and scales are presented for each key zone.

2 Morphious sound artist patches. A handpicked set of the best vocal performances from Tigris & Euphrates, morphed, edited , analog and digitally remixed and remasterd by two professional sound designers.

“Mosque”, an exclusive one of a kind original Imam recording of a live Holy Quran prayer inside a Turkish Mosque. Close/inside and outside effected edit recordings (bullhorn). These patches are the real deal. Sonokinetic is proud to present this as a special feature. A Modwheel crossfade between the clean and outside samples is also added.

“Zilgit”, another very exclusive one of kind original Middle Eastern recording. Female traditional celebration shouts / yelling / singing.

Time stretching patches. (NKI + _time); all male and female chants and songs are available with pitch bend function to slow down and speed up the phrases and melody lines.

3 impulse responses: 24 bit wave format. Large Istanbul Dome Mosque, smaller dome mosque and Turkish empirical hall.

Interface installer: “Tigris&Euphtrates_interfaces_installer” for mac,pc and manual installation.

Royalty and copyright free content license.

License and Usage Agreement for Tigris and Euphrates

Historical and Musical Origins , manual (pdf). A musical theory about Middle eastern music specified to the makam style used in “Tigris & Euphrates”.

Artwork : “Tigris & Euphrates” dvd cover. Designed by Pavel Fuksa

Demos & Promos: Michal Cielecki, Lorenzo Pigicci, Bill Thompson, Till Sommer , Erik Ekholm, Verbal Vigilante and Sonokinetic.

NKI instruments:

NKI Multi instruments:

How to Install

Please Note: files will remain available for downloading in your Order History (Click on the "Product Info" button) for 7 days after purchase.


To download the EXTRACTION SOFTWARE for both Windows and Mac:
Click Here for MAC Extraction Software

Click Here for PC Extraction Software (wrar380.exe)

PLEASE NOTE:
Due to the large sizes of Sonokinetic's sample packages, Sonokinetic have split them up in multiple files: _part1, _part2, _part3, etc. using the .rar extension. You should use the software provided above to unpack the files. Smaller packages (containing only 1 file), are zipped. For this you can use your OS (XP, OSX etc.) to extract the samples from the zip-file.

When extracting Sonokinetic sample packages only open the “.part1″ files with your extraction software. All other files will extract automatically!

NOTE TO MAC USERS:
If your .rar files download with an HTML extension on the end, please delete the .html extension so the .rar files will extract correctly.


License & Usage Agreement:
Click Here to download PDF


F.A.Q.

Do I need a serial number, license or product key to activate Sonokinetic products?:
No, all products are instantly ready for use without any time consuming and administrational organizing troubles.

Should I register my product?:
No, there is no registration required by Sonokinetic.

Do I need the full version of Kontakt to use Sonokinetic products?:
Yes. All Sonokinetic products require the full version of Kontakt 2 or higher. Tigris & Euphrates requires Kontakt 4.1 or higher.

Do Sonokinetic products support with other formats?:
With the exception of the RMX format. Each product is created for its specific labeled formats. For this information please check the provided format descriptions on the product page. We in no way guarantee 100% compatibility when using any form of translation software. All sales are final and neither Alexander Publishing nor Sonokinetic shall not be held responsible for importing said samples into a non-native sampler.

Do You offer a return policy?:
No. Because this is downloadable software that cannot be returned once purchased all sales are final. If you're unsure about purchasing, please contact us through our Contact Us page prior to purchasing.