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Traveler Series Bluegrass Fiddle

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Description

THE TRAVELER SERIES

Welcome to Red Room Audio’s Traveler Series, an ongoing collection of boutique sample libraries featuring traditional world instruments faithfully recorded on location from destinations around the globe.

Traveler Series libraries focus on delivering a genuine purity that can only be captured where the instrument and musical style originated, preserving its true character and history. We seek out a region’s most skilled and renowned performers; amazing folks with stories and bloodlines who live and breathe traditional provincial music. We leave with an education and appreciation for their culture and the role these beautiful instruments serve (as well as a tale or two of our own). We hope our Traveler Series adds an authentic native spirit to your music.

BLUEGRASS FIDDLE

Ronnie Stewart

Bluegrass fiddling is a distinctive American style characterized by bold, bluesy improvisation, off-beat “chopping”, and sophisticated use of double stops and old-time bowing patterns. Notes are often slid into, a technique seldom used in Celtic styles. Bluegrass fiddlers tend to ignore the rules that violinists follow: they hold the fiddle the “wrong” way and often don’t use the chin & shoulder rests.

We journeyed right to the heart of the Bluegrass State for our Bluegrass Fiddle – Clay City, Kentucky – to the private studio of one of the most renowned names in Bluegrass music, Rickey Wasson. Rickey hooked us up with a true Bluegrass fiddle legend, multi-instrumentalist Ronnie Stewart. Ronnie has appeared on hundreds of records and toured with some of the genre’s biggest names. Working with Rickey & Ronnie was an honor and an absolute blast.

 

 

FEATURES & REQUIREMENTS

FEATURES

Deep-sampled Bluegrass fiddle recorded in Clay City, Kentucky by Grammy nominated multi-instrumentalist Ronnie Stewart
Playable multi-sampled instrument with 12 standard articulations and 14 traditional Bluegrass ornaments
Over 400 Phrases & FX including rhythmic loops and free-form improvisations
2 types of sampled legato
4 performance modes including customizable Double Stops
Scale Lock feature automatically selects ornament intervals in the key of your song
TACT (Total Articulation Control Technology)
8-slot FX rack
Modern, easy to use, feature-packed GUI
Watermarked for copy protection
1.3 GB of content / 3,435 samples (24 bit/44.1 kHz NCW)

REQUIREMENTS

NI Kontakt (full), version 5.8.1 or above
1.5 GB disk space
2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
2008 or later processor. Your system must also meet the requirements for version 5.8.1 of Kontakt. If you cannot run that version, you will not be able to load this library.

ARTICULATIONS


STANDARD ARTICULATIONS
Reel Sustain
Air Sustain
Bowed Legato
Fingered Legato
Tenuto
Spiccato
Pizzicato
Strummed Pizzicato
8th Repetition Shorts
8th Repetitions (tempo synced)
16th Repetitions (tempo synced)
Crescendo (short & long, tempo synced)

ORNAMENTS
Bend Up Fast (HT, WT)
Bend Up Slow (HT, WT)
Bend Down Fast (HT, WT)
Bend Down Slow (HT, WT)
Bend Turn
Turn (HT, WT, Min3, Maj3)
Unisons
Fall Release

PHRASES & FX
FX – Percussive
FX – Fret Noise
Bend Up Unisons (HT & WT, Fast & Slow)
Intros
Chops Rhythms (tempo synced)
Rhythms (tempo synced)
Various Phrases

GUI

The Traveler Series Kontakt instruments feature a clean and simple, 1-page GUI with all the controls you need to get the most out of the library, including our TACT (Total Articulation Control Technology) and an 8-slot FX rack.

MAIN GUI

Articulations panel
Dynamics, Width and Timbre controls
4 performance modes
Rebowing & Open Notes controls
Scale Lock
TACT (Total Articulation Control Technology)
8-slot FX rack

PHRASES & FX GUI

7 categories of FX
Waveform display
Per sample controls for volume & tuning
For phrases that conform to tempo:
Start & End sliders to adjust loop length
Tempo Sync controls
MIDI input quantization controls
8-slot FX rack

REVIEWS


“If you want a true and authentic sound of traditional instruments, played on location by experienced players, in order to record the very root, heart and history of the sound the Traveler Series by Red Room Audio will feel like a blessing to you. They sound amazing, playability is wonderful, and the workflow and design really sparked my inspiration.”

-ProfessionalComposers.com | FULL REVIEW

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