Step into our time machine and explore musical heritage like never before. For over 500
years this instrument has been an essential musical ingredient in music styles across
Europe, Eurasia and large parts of the Middle East. Forming a base of harmony and rhythm
and a solid musical environment for melody instruments to perform in, spreading its sound
from the early medieval inns, taverns in the Golden Age to the festive Hobbit scenes of
the Lord Of The Rings movies. This versatile and distinctive sound instantly triggers the
imagination and lingers on to colour the musical picture the composer tries to paint.
The sound is unique and has never been sampled like this before. The automated violin
sound, with its constant drone and pivoting melody string lines, is an essential tool for
the composer that needs access to a large pallet of instruments and music styles. Hurdy
Gurdy is the Cinnamon of the musical instruments family. It doesnt fit as a generic
ingredient but apply it well and in the correct dish itll create something youll never
forget.
Weve been working on a concept for this instrument for a while and weve been told over
and over again that it couldnt be converted to the keyboard in a sensible way, because of
the unique way the Hurdy Gurdy creates drones, rhythms and legato melody all at once. But
we persisted and feel like we prevailed.
Its been a struggle to search for realism, user comfort, efficiency and playability. But
the Sonokinetic-Hurdy-Gurdy-formula® we came up with is quite intuitive. It pushes the
limits of samplers but still works within the safe boundaries of those dedicated sampling
platforms.
When you play the Hurdy Gurdy youre creating 5 types of sounds. 1) Drone sounds containing
two strings, 2) a trumpeter string sound to create the high buzzing rhythm sound. (which
only appears when you apply pressure on the spinning wheel causing the trumpeter string to
slip and buzz) 3) two melody strings sounds, 4) melodies by pressing the knobs and sliding
wooden rods on the melody strings to bend them to the correct pitch and lastly 5)
mechanical sounds like pushing knobs, swinging the wheel and damping the strings when you
stop spinning. All those sounds have been sampled and built into this keyboard orientated
Hurdy Gurdy. Youll get full control over all sounds to adjust your instrument to whatever
sound youre looking for. By default we chose a realistic and authentic representation of
La Fleur, the Hurdy Gurdy thats been subject to the sampling process.
Last but not least Hurdy Gurdies usually only come in one or two tunings. But Sonokinetic
wouldnt be an inventive and ambitious company if wed settle for that. So La Fleur had
to go through some painful adjustments to stretch the Hurdy Gurdy legacy to a new standard.
With this library we present an instrument that, until now, hasnt been recreated in this
extensive way ever before:
Available in all keys, true legato sampling, 100% capturing of all sounds from this
instrument, with all playing techniques transformed into a keyboard orientated composer.
And the best of it, weve also provided settings for real Hurdy Gurdy musicians to play
this instrument like the real instrument with left hand melody playing options.
Sonokinetic invests in a state of the art user interface with highly effective and
sophisticated under the hood programming and sample management policy. With over 1400
samples at your fingertips with a nice look and a beautiful sound we present:
Hurdy Gurdy multi sampled and fully automated virtual instrument
We wish you the best inspiration and creativity.
http://www.sonokinetic.net/products/classical/hurdygurdy/
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