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Silk Black Friday pricing is 60% off, which brings this EastWest Sounds virtual instrument collection to $59 until Jan 17, 2027.
Silk is a library of Silk Road instruments from China, Persia and India. It runs in the OPUS interface and weighs in at 25 GB.
The maker describes it as an extension of EastWest/Quantum Leap RA. The aim is access to rare Asian instruments played by renowned artists.
The 25 GB splits into 20 GB of multi-samples and 5 GB of authentic performances.
Every instrument is multi-sampled in detail. The maker lists extensive articulations, interval sampling where it fits, round robin alternate samples, legato scripting and phrases.
The point of all that, says the maker, is a smooth, effortless playing feel. That is where the name comes from.
Those are the instruments with recorded legato intervals, so melodic lines move from note to note the way a player would phrase them.
Each musician is a master of their instrument. Sessions took place at East West Studios, using vintage Neumann microphones, Neve consoles and Meitner converters.
That is a classic signal chain: mic, console, converter. The maker says it was chosen to capture the most accurate sound available.
OPUS brings convolution reverb, scripting and a micro-tuning system into one window.
The micro-tuning gives you dozens of tunings in the key of your choice. The maker calls it the first system of its kind.
Nick Phoenix, the EastWest/Quantum Leap producer, says the microtuning and scales also teach users how to use these sounds in an authentic way.
If you want to write with scales outside 12-tone equal temperament, you can retune the instruments and keep the playable, sampled sound.
Yes. The Silk Black Friday deal from EastWest Sounds takes 60% off, bringing the virtual instrument to $59 until Jan 17, 2027. It is the same 25 GB Silk Road collection, with no change to what is included.
Silk covers Silk Road instruments from China, Persia and India. Recorded legato intervals are listed for erhu, zhonghu, jinhu, electric cello, kemenche, duduk, a 30 piece string section, dilruba and bansuri, all played by master musicians.
Silk is a 25 GB instrument. About 20 GB is multi-samples, and the other 5 GB is authentic performances. The multi-sampling includes articulations, round robin alternate samples, legato scripting and phrases.
Silk lets you adapt its instruments with dozens of micro tunings in the key of your choice, inside the OPUS interface. The maker calls it the first system of its kind and says it helps users play these sounds authentically.
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