Its 13 strings bring elegant and spiritual sounds that mimic stillness and motion as does the 4 seasons of Japan. It has a lightness of flying butterflies and the sputtering of fish, but has the strength of thunder. The Koto sound is as quite as the moon, cherry blossoms, and the surface of water. You can hear many basic playing techniques such as types of chalking, finger slides, pizzicato, and arpeggios, all included in the 1023 files you get when you purchase this pack. This downloadable DVD-ROM was recorded with the player facing the Koto using the correct posture and emotional display to achieve the high quality 44.1 kHz/16-Bit sound. There is an opening in the bottom of the Koto which releases the sound that seems to penetrate your body. It has been said that this instrument could purify you mind, body, and soul. Koto was used in old Japanese court music to soothe the body.
The Koto is not only used in traditional music, but also by modern day composers have used the instrument in collaboration with orchestras since the early 1900’s. Koto captures the pure sound of Japan and will flood your ears with various sounds.Īn ancient Japanese musical instrument comes into the spotlight again. You will feel as if it is you who is playing these warm, dynamic tones. Simply put, this is the most comprehensive library of Japanese plucked instruments ever recorded.'Koto' from Discovery Sound features elegant and spiritual sounds that mimic stillness and motion. The Combinator patches can be used for further tweaking and sculpting. These sounds range from granular pad textures to warm sustains, drones, airy resonances, percussive hits, distorted synths and eerie ambiances. Articulations include sustained picks with a plectrum, pizzicato, octaves, glissandi of multiple types and speeds, vibrato, tremolo, mordents (pitch bends), and mutes, as well as ‘modern’ techniques such as atonal glissandi, finger scrapes, string hits and hard plucks.Īlso included in the Koto Nation library is a set of 9 “FX” patches, which apply online and offline processing to the core audio to take it in new, musically interesting directions. This library includes a massive number of samples spanning a wide variety of both traditional and extended playing techniques, programmed for the Combinator and NN-XT. The instruments were intimately mixed and recorded with multiple dynamic levels and round-robin variations for maximum realism and playability. Impact Soundworks Koto Nation was created to truly capture the beautiful sounds of three traditional Japanese instruments: the Koto, Bass Koto, and Shamisen, as performed by koto legend Masayo Ishigure (Memoirs of a Geisha w/ Yo-Yo Ma and John Williams).
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