Didgeridoos
Didgeridoos is a one-of-a-kind virtual instrument that provides a wide chromatic range of 16 individually tuned didgeridoos that gives users the power to create rhythms and melodies that have never been heard or played before with this instrument, created by William MacGavin and David Zagardo. It features a wide variety of sustaining rhythmic grooves, vowel sounds and beatbox-style staccatos and effect articulations.
The didgeridoo is an ancient wooden horn originally made and played by the Aboriginal Peoples of Australia, and is an instrument traditionally used for ceremonies and festivities. This virtual instrument was crafted with great respect for the Aboriginal Peoples of Australia, their culture, and their values. It is not intended to be used in a traditional context and has been designed to provide creative tools and new sonic possibilities for composers and musicians everywhere to explore. It is not intended to represent or replace the authentic realism, cultural importance and soul of traditional aboriginal musicianship and spiritual traditions.
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Artist
Will Macgavin[website]David Zagardo[website]
Will Macgavin has been playing the didgeridoo for the past 15 years as a soloist and with bands playing genres such as rock, jazz, bluegrass, orchestral music, and much more. Will has developed a contemporary playing style to play this instrument in a modern context, blending beatbox and traditional brass techniques. MacGavin Woodworks designs acoustically unique didgeridoos and crafts them from ethically sourced timbers, which were extensively sampled for the creation of this library.
David Zagardo is a composer and recording engineer based in Birmingham, Alabama, specializes in music composition and post production sound for films, games, musicians, podcasts, and more. After collaborating together on a recording project, they teamed up to record these instruments at David's studio, to capture the dynamic range of each instrument in a dry studio environment, with attention to every detail to get maximum clarity.
Contents
The Kontakt interface includes a suite of automation-ready sound-shaping controls to give you total creative flexibility. You have control over swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, pitch (coarse & fine), articulation switching, cross-fading and layering, and so much more. We've also included 20 unique sound-designed custom FX presets to give you lots of creative options.
This library comes with an adaptable LFO system, with selectable LFO shape, modulation target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing and fade-in time. You can also apply your choice of 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, with assignable modulation targets such as velocity, modwheel, expression, after-touch, key position and step-sequencer table control. Our customizable arpeggiator offers a velocity table and control over arp direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. We’ve included a key and scale lock system to constrain your notes to common scales and keys for easy melodic composition and live performance.
The interface is rounded-out by our modular FX rack panel, with 18 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of 10 available slots, in any order that you wish. You’ll find classic phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ, rotator and so much more. The Reverb effect includes our favorite convolution reverb impulse responses, including 99 different rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor environments, plus another 40 custom FX impulses to radically transform the sound and open up whole new worlds of musical possibility. We’ve added a great bank of FX rack chain factory presets to get you started!
Kontakt Format
This library has been licensed for use in the free Kontakt Player virtual instrument engine. It can be used in Kontakt Player or the full retail version of Kontakt (version 6 or later) for VST, AU or AAX instrument plugin formats. You can add this product to the Kontakt “Libraries” browser. It requires online serial number registration through the Native Instruments Service Center app. This library is also fully compatible with Komplete Kontrol and all S-Series Keyboard Controllers by Native Instruments. Purchasing this library qualifies you for a great cross-grade discount toward the full unlocked version of Kontakt through Native Instruments!
Product Specs
- 2 master NKI instrument banks in Kontakt 6 Player format
- Chromatic Sustains, Vowels, Beatbox, and FX articulations
- 43 Ambience patches created from the source content
- 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
- 14,250 stereo samples in locked .ncw format
- 9.04 GB Installed
- Made for the free Kontakt Player (version 6+), Komplete Kontrol, all S-Series Keyboards and NKS software and hardware by Native Instruments
- Works with the Kontakt "Libraries" browser and Native Access
Documentation
System Requirements
This Powered-By-Kontakt Player Edition is supported by version 6 or later of the free Kontakt Player (VST, AU, AAX) and the special “Libraries” rack. Windows 7 or higher required for PC. OSX 10.12 or higher required for Mac. Dual Core CPU, 3+ GB System Ram, SATA or SSD hard drive recommended for this library. This software is delivered as a digital download, so a broadband connection is required. All sales are final. Please see our Help Page for download and installation instructions, tutorials and the End User Licensing Agreement before ordering.
Videos
Walkthrough: Didgeridoos
Composing With Didgeridoos
Writing A Desert Action Style Cue
Didgeridoos Trailer
Reviews & Endorsements
"Soundiron’s Digeridoos library presents a collection of deeply sampled and expertly programmed didgeridoos. Tempo-synced performances with additional FX and one-shots make it easy to implement these well produced sounds in any context. The creative FX presets are a nice bonus and starting point for exploring didgeridoo sound design."
“I needed something unusual sounding that could also perfectly meld with my orchestral template. On a whim, I tried the new SoundIron didgeridoos. I blended it with low woodwinds and it was exactly what I was looking for!”
“In addition to the realistic Didgeridoo instrument -- playable as a keyboard in the ensemble setting --- the REAL fun lies in the custom presets. They are immediately fun to play and easily add a lively grunge to the bass voice in any larger track. I love that it's now something I could use outside of a 'travelogue' setting."
- Jacob Yoffee (Best Shot, Andi Mack, Finding Carter, Ingress: The Animation)
"Didgeridoos is what I refer to as an ‘onion skin library,’ (stay with me we’re nearly at the end!), on the surface it’s an onion, but there are many layers to that onion!...Didgeridoos does offer a rare palette of unique timbres, tones and rhythms that are not heard in your average everyday sample library."
"The instrument offers the perfect range of authentic didgeridoo patches as well as modern evolved sounds so the composer can go either way or anywhere in between."