The tsugaru-jamisen is a type of shamisen, a Japanese fretless three-string lute. Sonica Instruments has painstakingly recreated every aspect of the revered tsugaru shamisen – the stirring percussive sounds, powerful playing techniques, and incredible speed of hajiki picking – in the Kontakt instrument library.
TSUGARU SHAMISEN’s Virtuoso Japanese library is sure to bring almost any genre of music to life, from Japanese minyo folk songs to hard rock, jazz, contemporary classical music, and film scores.
- Perfectly recreates the sound of the Tsugaru Shamisen using the finest recording and programming techniques.
- Completely natural sound reproduction using up to five velocity layers and as many as 12 round robins.
- Covers over 20 Tsugaru Shamisen playing techniques, all with key shift control.
- Five phrase banks with key shift control containing a wide range of essential Tsugaru Shamisen phrases.
- A newly developed string mode mechanism that lets you choose which string to play provides rich expressiveness and realism with the same feel as a real shamisen.
- Reproduces the resonant buzz of the azuma sawari inherent in the Tsugaru Shamisen, which functions just like the real thing.
- Three selectable tuning modes for ni-agari, honchoshi and san-sagari tunings.
- Open string notes, Savary effects and resonant tones are automatically adjusted according to all key settings and transpositions.
- Alternate picking function plays downstroke and upstroke sequences.
- Hajiki -Legato function allows you to instantly play hajiki sounds using Legato.
- Fingerpicking control function provides realistic attack nuances.
- Built-in instrument editor provides consistent tuning and volume control.
- Lively powerful sounds sampled in full 24-bit precision at 96 kHz (the library contains 24-bit samples at 44 .1 kHz).
- Create your own mixes using multi-mic samples and a dedicated mixer with individual controls for direct, overhead, room and stereo mixing.
- Compatible with NKS ready and Kontakt Player.
