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The Ancient Bundle Black Friday deal puts 76% off a four-library collection from EastWest Sounds, at $139 until Jan 24, 2027. It groups Ancient Kingdom, RA, SILK and GYPSY, all built around rare, world and folk-style instruments.
Each one is a separate sample library with its own focus.
Ancient Kingdom was produced by Doug Rogers and Nick Phoenix. Saulius Petreikis plays a rare selection of wind instruments from around the world.
The maker lists four effects signal paths on top of multi-mic recordings. The interface has a Center Display with 3D instrument models, a Left Panel with Mood presets, performance scripts and MIDI controls, and a Right Panel with FX mixes, convolution reverbs and channel routing.
There are 26 instrument categories. Articulation sub-categories cover Long, Short, Effects, Legato and Keyswitch.
Instruments include:
RA covers rare instruments from Africa, Europe, India, the Americas and Australia, the Far East, and the Middle East and Turkish Empires. The maker says the instruments and ensembles were sampled extensively to keep their character.
RA has a performance section with portamento, repetition and legato, plus round robin reset. It also has a convolution reverb with pre-delay.
SILK is multi-sampled with articulations, interval sampling, round robin and legato scripting. It is a 25 GB instrument: 20 GB of multi-samples and 5 GB of performances.
Recorded legato intervals cover erhu, zhonghu, jinhu, electric cello, kemenche, duduk, a 30-piece string section, dilruba and bansuri. The maker says the master musicians were recorded at East West Studios on vintage Neumann microphones, Neve consoles and Meitner converters.
SILK also has a micro-tuning system. You pick the key and adapt the instruments with dozens of micro tunings.
GYPSY is a Gypsy-style collection of 11 GB of samples. It covers violin, trombone, multiple guitars, accordions and more.
The nylon string guitar, violin and trombone play in both Gypsy and Classical styles. The violin has fast and slow true legato slides.
Recordings of the guitars include alternating downstrokes and upstrokes, a wide span of dynamic levels, different picking approaches, tails left to ring out after release, plus full chords and sound effects. Guitarist David Kole played them.
Traditional percussion, flamenco dancer foot stomps and castanets are included. The maker says it loads with optimal settings, so you spend less time tweaking.
Yes. The Ancient Bundle Black Friday deal takes 76% off the EastWest Sounds collection, bringing it to $139 until Jan 24, 2027. It includes Ancient Kingdom, RA, SILK and GYPSY.
Four EastWest libraries: Ancient Kingdom, RA, SILK and GYPSY. Ancient Kingdom focuses on rare wind instruments, RA on rare instruments from around the world, SILK on multi-sampled instruments with legato intervals, and GYPSY on Gypsy-style guitars, violin, trombone and percussion.
Saulius Petreikis plays the rare wind instruments in Ancient Kingdom. The library was produced by Doug Rogers and Nick Phoenix and features 26 instrument categories, including duduk, bansuri, fujara, hulushi and Irish whistle.
The maker says SILK lets you adapt its instruments with dozens of micro tunings in the key of your choice. It describes the system as the first of its kind. SILK itself is a 25 GB instrument with extensive articulations and round robin.
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