A wonderful and unique virtual instrument with the rich sounds of the South Pacific.
The Sounds of Polynesia sample library was produced by Airileke ('Airi') Ingram who recorded a host of indigenous instruments. There are village ambience tracks from Airi's village Gabagaba in Central Province of Papua New Guinea and Munum village in the Morobe Province, with spoken and chanted vocals.
Performers: Airileke Ingram (Papua New Guinea/Australia) - all instruments (except guitars), vocals, programming, and sequencing. William Hatch (Fiji/Australia) - guitars, vocals and additional percussion.
The state-of-the-art plug-in interface by Native Instruments is specifically optimized for rhythmic loop playback and manipulation. The convenient one-screen interface (a version of NI Intakt), provides tremendous sound shaping abilities without disrupting the creative flow and includes a first-class multimode filter, an envelope follower, 2 LFOs, effects, and much more. Loops can be automatically synced to tempo by either the Beat Machine or the Time Machine.
The Beat Machine has loops divided into their individual hits (slices) which means they can be played at a wide range of tempos without change in pitch and each hit has individual settings for pitch, playback direction, pitch envelope, amp envelope, distortion, delay, and more. Plus a MIDI file of each loop can be easily exported so that groove, accent, and feel can be manipulated in any host sequencer.
The Time Machine time-stretches or compresses loops in real time.
Library Content: over 1.3GB of instruments, rhythms, vocals, and other indigenous and unique sound samples from the islands of the South Pacific and Australia.
Supported Interfaces: VST 2.0, DXi, ASIO, Audio Units, Core Audio, RTAS
The Sample Collection will also be loadable into Native Instruments' KONTAKT sampler (from version 1.3 of Kontakt onwards).
