ANCIENT TRADITION, CONTEMPORARY HEART

DISCOVERY SERIES: INDIA delivers every nuance of traditional Indian music with supreme authenticity and advanced playability.



EVERYTHING INDIA
Explore a vast library of rhythmic patterns and historic scales, designed for ultimate realism and adaptability. DISCOVERY SERIES: INDIA is a unique collection of superbly sampled percussion and melodic instruments, playable individually or in a finely balanced ensemble. Whether you need a touch of new spice in your productions or true-to-life performance, INDIA has you covered.



YOUR NEW MUSICAL LANGUAGE
Discover the sophisticated rhythms, irregular time signatures, and unique melodic structures of the Indian musical tradition with INDIA.

Play the rhythmic cycles (called 'talas') from the onboard groove player. Use these rhythms with the instruments in INDIA, or drag and drop the MIDI files and use them with any software instrument in your contemporary productions. The scales of this musical culture (called 'ragas') can be mapped to your keyboard in a number of ways and adjusted to taste for the perfect mood.



MODERN CONTROL
DISCOVERY SERIES: INDIA combines these traditional elements with deep customization features in a modern interface. Easy-to-use mixer and effects sections let you tailor the levels of the instruments and space in your mix without stepping out of your creative flow. Groove, Feel, and Intensity controls allow instant changes to the depth, rhythmic precision, and dynamics. And carefully-designed snapshots provide instant variations of each instrument performance.

AT A GLANCE:

• KOMPLETE Instrument
• Number of instruments: 16 NKIs (1 Ensemble, 9 Percussion Instruments, 6 Melodic Instruments)
• Number of snapshots: 177
• Number of included scales: 96
• Number of included grooves: 954 MIDI files, grouped in 159 pattern sets (6 MIDI files per pattern set)
• For use with: Free KONTAKT 5 PLAYER (included in free KOMPLETE PLAYERS), or KONTAKT 5
• Download size: 3GB (about 7GB uncompressed sample pool)
• System requirements: Free KONTAKT 5 PLAYER or KONTAKT 5 (version 5.5.2 or higher)

Discovery Series: India is available for $99



More INFO: Native Instruments | Discovery Series: India

 

Last edited: Jan 25, 2016

So this isn't a piano?

 

Cool, looking forward to this and the rest of the series.

 

I bet you could do some cool Indian stuff with this

 

Where the F**k are his legs?

 

The engineer took them away until he finished the session. Too many bathroom breaks were wasting NI's time and money.

 

I am from India these are boring stuff.

 

This is not boring. This is something very deep. I am from India. Yes, classical music of India is dying but it is the most powerful music I think so.

 

Why is that? I'm a total ignorant about Indian Music-

 

Pretty awesome discovery series. I would like a violin Indian style played lib. I love how it sounds like.

I am not from India but if it's true, it's a shame. I have never seen more unique musical knowledge. Whether about instruments, learning techniques, way of singing or musical theories. It would be a great loss for humanity IMHO.

 

Very interesting!

 

There is a major division in Raga (melody) and Tala (rhythm), the use of many different scales which are hardly comparable with western ones and a strong connection with religious beliefs about the ways music might influence life and elevate your spirit. In fact Krishna, one of the main gods of hinduism, was a musician.
That's how far my theory goes (feel free to correct me if I am wrong).

 

kontakt 5.5.2 ?

 

Correct. It was released last week.

 

it is coz of the micro tuning.... there are countless ragas because of this, ragas are associated with different moods n stuff, two major styles are HINDUSTANI and CARNATIC... IN my opinion indian music is not dying!! its not being popularised... and access to learn indian classical is quiet limited... you have to search a proper GURU... then it takes years of dedicated practice to jus get a hold of it!!!

 

looking forward to this lib.. it gonna be awesome as its coming from native instruments !!!

 

Me too from INDIA.... indian classical music is not dying but learning process is very long and younger gens get discouraged by that i feel!!! and it difficult to find proper GURU to learn from... that is why its not that popular and learning material is sparse!!!! all this thing jus discourages many young talents, and they look other way....!!! but indian classical music is so awesome !!!

 

Hello to the boys in the East. Wow! I almost wet my pants checking this out. Amazing product design, so detailed. I really hope the sitar is well designed and even better than the one found in NI's North India product.

 

Same here!!! An Indian violin/viola could be awsome!!!!