Ancient World - Instrument Walkthrough

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Big Fish Audio and Funk/Soul Productions are proud to bring you Ancient World: Instruments of Antiquity. Ancient World is an exciting journey to the origins of musical sound. All of the most important instruments of antiquity have been extensively sampled for the first time ever.

Archivist Nikolaos Brass’ collection of ancient Greek instruments forms the basis of Ancient World. Brass dedicated his life in the research and the re-creation of ancient musical instruments, using the same methods and materials which were used in antiquity. Some of the instruments, such as the Syntonon and Copperphone, are extremely rare with only two or three existing worldwide! The multi-sampling of these beautifully recorded instruments presents a rich array of String, Wind, and Percussion implementations.

All of the performance techniques have been meticulously sampled. For instance, the string instruments have articulations such as: plucked, with and without vibrato, harmonics, plectrum, tremolo, arpeggios, glissandos, behind the bridge, slides, and more. In some cases, up to thirty samples per note have been recorded.

Beyond the multi-sampled instruments, Ancient World contains an extensive collection of looped performances for almost all the instruments presented in the collection.

In order to expand the geographical and historical boundaries, many rare instruments have been added, which come from Medieval times, and a large area covering the Mediterranean basin as well as the Middle-East.

Ancient World brings the modern composer/producer dozens of instruments and hundreds of loops and phrases from a unique collection, many of which are sampled for the very first time.

Ancient World is an indispensable tool for composers who are active in film, TV and video games.