Hello everybody,
I actually produced this Chinese Orchestra sample library for Nord. As a Nord fan and musician living and working in China, I've always wanted to be able to play myself traditional Chinese instruments on my Nord. There was no comprehensive library on the market for free or commercially available so I felt that would be an interesting project to do.
The idea is also on one side to let Chinese musicians using on Nord keyboards (very appreciated brand here) quality sounds they really need. On an other side, I wanted to let other users in the world discover and experiment those great centuries/millenium old instruments.
It took me 3 months of work and a lot of money/people was involved in the process.
I am also personally looking forward Nord releasing a Rhodes XL but as usual this is a library available for free so maybe some users comments could be a bit more respectful, open minded and appreciative of the effort put onto this.
Also, I would be happy to see Nord developing more on the Chinese Market and I'm happy to contribute. As a fan of the brand, I understand the better the business can be, the more investment might be made to develop even better products and sounds. And frankly I prefer to hear people/students around me play Nord than cheap Piano/Rhodes/Synth sounds from other Japanese brands.
I will be happy to improve this collection in the future thanks to the feedback from enthusiastic users. There can still be improvement on the ratio size/loop length, the mastering of the sounds (adjustment of instrument noise). So please feel free to play those instruments in a traditional way or any onboard effect and let me know your impressions.
Here are the credits for this project and Wikipedia links to learn more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_orchestra赵点燃 Zhao Dianran 古筝 古琴 Guzheng / Guqin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guzhenghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guqin张璐棋 Zhang Luqi 笙 Sheng
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_(instrument)
柴权 Chai Quan 唢呐 Suona
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suona徐遥祝 Xu Yaozhu 笛子 箫 葫芦丝 Dizi / Xiao / Hulusi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizi_(instrument)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao_(flute)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulusi李雨涵 Li Yuhan 琵琶 中阮 柳琴 Pipa / Zhongruan / Liuqin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruanhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liuqin李喆 Li Zhe 扬琴 Yangqin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangqin黄亚琼 Huang Yaqiong 胡琴 Erhu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhu黄亚琼 Huang Yaqiong (co-producer)
Kristofer Ulfves (tester and technical supervisor
Enjoy Everybody !
Pierre Pradat