dflood
Senior Member
Anybody know if there are any sampled dilruba or esraj VIs available? In case you are not familiar with them they are kind of like bowed sitars. It is the instrument used to double George Harrison’s voice on “Within You Without You” on the Sergeant Pepper’s album.
I believe there is also an esraj featured in this tune by Loreena McKennitt:
It’s an amazing sound. I found a few loop libraries of Indian instruments and some of the big ethnic collections like Ra and UVI world suite have one or the other, but I wasn’t too thrilled with the way they sounded in the small snippets I could find online. I’m surprised the Native Instruments India collection didn’t include one because to my ears they are the most interesting of all the melodic Indian instruments.
I believe there is also an esraj featured in this tune by Loreena McKennitt:
It’s an amazing sound. I found a few loop libraries of Indian instruments and some of the big ethnic collections like Ra and UVI world suite have one or the other, but I wasn’t too thrilled with the way they sounded in the small snippets I could find online. I’m surprised the Native Instruments India collection didn’t include one because to my ears they are the most interesting of all the melodic Indian instruments.