Sonica Instruments SHAKUHACHI

Shakuhachi, the third release in the Virtuoso Japanese Series, is now available as a software instrument in Kontakt format.
Singing sonorous intonation, deep yet delicate breathing, and a Japanese sound aesthetic spilling into the periphery: The shakuhachi - an instrument symbolic of Japan - finally joins the Virtuoso Japanese Series family.

Main Features:

- Precisely captures the scintillating sounds of a veteran shakuhachi player, covering every playing technique and recorded with exacting attention to detail at every musical interval
- Features performance mechanisms designed specifically for this library to recreate the full dynamics of this wind instrument, from the softest sound to the most emphatic pitch
- The unique Key Trigger Connection function lets the performer move through a colorful assortment of articulations without ever interrupting the sound
- Legato and grace note controls reproduce complex fingering techniques such as atari, uchi, and oshi.
- The blow control function lets the performer manipulate the duration from the breath noise to the actual tone with either a controller
- The expression control varies the tone color naturally and continuously without gradations
- A hybrid combination of the shakuhachi (1.8 shakuhachi) and the 2.3 shakuhachi provides a wider register, including lower tones, and more tone color variations
- Create traditional shakuhachi pitch scales, as well as performer-specific pitch scales, with the Scale Tuning function, which provides individual note adjustment over G2 to B5
- Five phrase banks contain a wide array of essential shakuhachi phrases
- Lively powerful sounds sampled in full 24 bit 96 kHz fidelity (the library itself contains 24 bit 44.1 kHz samples)
- Create your own mixes with the multi-microphone samples and a dedicated mixer with individual controls for Direct, Overhead, Room, and Stereo Mix

Packed with 25 articulations, five phrase banks, and breath noises
Articulation list
Key switchable articulations

- Straight
- Tonguing
- Grace Note
- Portamento up
- Straight and Atari
- Sfortzando
- Uchi & Oshi (Finger Effect)
- Yuri 1 (Vibrato Horizontal)
- Yuri 2 (Vibrato Vertical)
- Yuri 3 (Vib. Vertical Long)
- Iki-Yuri 1 (Vibrato with Breath)
- Iki-Yuri 2 (Vibrato with Breath Fast)
- Muraiki 1 (Breath FX1)
- Muraiki 2A (Breath FX2A)
- Muraiki 2B (Breath FX2B)
- Muraiki 3 (Breath FX3)
- Tamane (FX with Tongue Trill)
- Karakara (FX with Finger)
- Korokoro (FX with Finger)
- Improvisation

Legato
- Fast Legato
- Slow Legato
- Atari Legato

Breath noises

- 24 breath noise and special effects

Five phrase banks

- Short Phrase 1: eight short phrases
- Short Phrase 2: eight short phrases
- Short Phrase 3: eight short phrases
- Short Phrase 4: five short phrases
- Short Phrase 5: five short phrases

Audio Mixer
Samples were recorded in three stereo microphone positions - Direct, Overhead, and Room - plus a Stereo Mix. Full mixing control is available, with individual Volume, Pan, Reverb Send, and EQ adjustments for each channel. Shakuhachi also comes with a quality convolution reverb for excellent in-instrument sound creation. The parallel output bus sends the microphone channels to individual DAW tracks for finer mixing sessions.