The story
BAMBOO was created to be an instrument with size, width and texture so that it could be used with little to no accompaniment…
I recently took a trip to Vietnam and found a cheap bamboo flute whilst wandering through the famous “Guitar Street” in Ho Chi Minh City. The flute even came with a pouch that looked as though the manufacturer’s grandmother had made it out of fabric so kitsch, she must have been given it for free.
Still new to sampling in Kontakt, BAMBOO started as an experiment to see how far I could get with a single sample stretched across the keyboard. Multiple reverbs and delays were stacked together to create a mass of sound, and then captured as an impulse response. The IR was then used in Kontakt along with some more reverb and delay.
Reluctant to get stuck within the KSP vortex, I avoided any attempt to add additional knobs and features.
BAMBOO is simple to use – spread chord voicings sound great, low register notes have oodles of bass and most importantly, mod wheel adds space!
Enjoy 🙂
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Yummy bamboo
I oddly find this sound very pleasing and it mixes perfectly with an orchestra in the back. The UI is fairly empty imo, but the great and simple sound doesn't need much more.
Great wet ambience
The sound and character of this instrument are great and very wet, even when you reduce the space setting through the modwheel. This results in a very huge amount of reverberance that might need some attention in the context of a mix.
Interesting tones
This is a simple little bamboo flute patch. It didn't seem to have legato and the slap delay kind of threw me off but it definitely can do the Native-American or East Asian atmosphere very nicely. Worth a download.
Breathy and cinematic
This is an awesome breathy and cinematic flute pad. I would put it more in the pad category because i think its too drenched in reverb to really work as a solo flute. I love woodwind pads like this though because they provide such a beautiful but mellow breathiness at the top end. The higher notes definitely have some energy and start sounding less chill and more cinematic.
