Oriental and Eastern musical instruments with sound examples

1.) Zourna - Free VSTi - Win 32 - Free (Zourna produces the sound of the Zourna.)
- It features a quarter tone control for ease of use with middle eastern scales.
https://smatni.tripod.com/safwanmatnivstplugins/ & www.mediafire.com/?66jl3780m57cd

2.) SIKA Oriental Scale (Sika Oriental Scale is a free sound library for Kontakt.)
- Light weight Oriental sounds with quarter note control to add oriental scales.
Aud, Kanoun, Accordion, Alto sax, Trumpet and Duduk.
www.httmusic.com/sika-free.html

3,) Syntar by Syntar (Syntar is a VST instrument designed to fulfill your every sitar sound requirement.)
https://plugins4free.com/plugin/295/

4.) DSK - World Stringz VSTi - Win 32 (Strings instruments from all the world based) – 13 world string Instruments:
Celtic harp, Cumbus, Dobro, Dulcimer, Guzhen, Kanum, Koto, Luam, Pipa, Pipa tremolo, Sitar, Tar & Turkish oud
www.dskmusic.com/dsk-world-stringz/

5.) DSK - Asian DreamZ VSTi - Win 32
– 8 Asian Instruments: Pipa, Pipa tremolo, Luan, Guzhen, Erhu, Koto, Ban di, Percussion kit
www.dskmusic.com/dsk-asian-dreamz/

Instruments: Saz - Balaban - Zurna - Ney - Kanun - Oud - Violin - Duduk - Kaval - Tar

Saz

Balaban

zurna

Ney

Kanun

Oud - Violin

Duduk

Kaval

Tar

 

Last edited: Feb 8, 2022

How to get oriental sound without the libraries:
Use tuning software on your favorite synths (That's actually so out of the box I can't recall hearing it somewhere)

 

https://audiosex.pro/threads/are-these-instruments-microtuned.62984/page-3#post-622955

1.) List of microtonal software plugins https://en.xen.wiki/w/List_of_microtonal_software_plugins

2.) Resources for Microtonal Music
https://sevish.com/music-resources/

A,)
Example: The Surge XT VSTi (Free) have a good *.tun / *.scl import function ! https://surge-synthesizer.github.io



Tuning files

Handpicked microtonal tuning files that I collected around 2014.
Includes a written guide to introduce you to using these tunings.

Download them all
https://sevish.com/musicmakingstuff/sevish-tunings-pack-v1.1.zip

Multiple tuning formats are included:

tun: for Serum, Omnisphere, u-he, Surge XT plugins etc.

- scl/kbm: for Surge, Pianoteq, ZynAddSubFX etc.
- mid (MIDI Tuning Standard dump) for Xen-Arts

 

Last edited: Feb 10, 2022

Hey, thanks for sharing these Oriental and Eastern musical instrument resources!

 

Last edited: Jul 28, 2023