The downloadable Andy Findon Kitbag from Spitfire Audio is a collection of five virtual ethnic wind instruments featuring the fujara, the Chinese bamboo flute, the contrabass flute, the shakuhachi, and the ocarina. The Kitbag includes 6,300 sound samples performed by the orchestral and session flutist Andy Finton. Each sample is available in a choice of four microphone mixes to help you achieve just the sound you want.
The Andy Findon Kitbag's graphic user interface presents the Performance Patch alongside a number of instrument-specific Articulation Patches. In the Performance Patch you simply play your monophonic music on your keyboard to recreate it in the instrument of your choice without much manual customization. The Performance patch responds intelligently to your playing, giving you a variety of transitions between notes based on the velocity of your keystroke. The Articulation Patches, on the other hand, enable polyphonic playing and manual articulation control. Each instrument has its own set of characteristic round-robined articulations including basic long notes, bend-ups, bend-downs, short notes, and breathing noises for extra realism.
Dynamics-, flutter-, vibrato-, reverb-, and expression-control sliders open up a myriad of instrument-specific sound-customization possibilities from each of the patches. The samples were recorded in small, dry studios to leave ambient-effect possibilities as open as possible.
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