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Ethno Instrument 2 — Universal world/ethnic instrument
Features
- Overview
- New in 2.0
- Demo movies
- MP3 examples
- Instruments
- Authentic tuning
- Microtonal scales
- Loops
- Sliced loops
- Phrases
- Drag and drop
- Tempo & time-stretching
- Feature highlights
- Specifications
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"Ethno 2 should be at the top of your list. With a Key Buy award, it's sure at the top of ours."
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Winter NAMM 2010
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"Ethno 2 is fantastic by the way, had a little play today, it sounds really vibrant and organic!"
-Rik Simpson
Coldplay Producer
Authentic tuning
Utmost care was taken to capture — in the finest authentic detail — the unique character of each instrument.
Many world instruments have truly unique tonality or tuning — much different than the Western 12-tone chromatic scale. Therefore, many of the Ethno Instrument's presets are provided in two forms: the original ("-o") tuning, which preserves each note of the instrument exactly as it would be played by the musician, and conventional western chromatic tuning, which saves you the pain-staking effort of having to remap or tune each note.
Play the two Sanza preset samples below to hear an example of original ("-o") tuning and conventional tuning. These examples have been made using Digital Performer's MIDI Keys window to play the notes of a C major scale (white keys), so that you can see how the sanza notes are mapped to the keyboard for each tuning:
Original "-o" tuning
Western tuning
Microtuning and non-western scales
Ethno 2's "-o" presets are only the beginning. Ethno 2 provides extensive microtonal scales from all over the world, which can be applied to any instrument preset.