LAUNEDDAS

[zetarec]

Hi, have a sample Launeddas instrument for ns4? thanks

[timmmy000]

Hi, no originally ther aren't such samples existent. But perhaps you can tweak some similar sounding samples - the Launeddas is a flute-like mediterranean instrument, isn´t it? So in the sample library the English Horn Mellotron M400 and the Flute Chamberlin MMaster (both in the Mellotron/Chamberlin-category) may be a good starting point...
Regards
Tim

[DadeBonetti]

Hi, no originally ther aren't such samples existent. But perhaps you can tweak some similar sounding samples - the Launeddas is a flute-like mediterranean instrument, isn´t it? So in the sample library the English Horn Mellotron M400 and the Flute Chamberlin MMaster (both in the Mellotron/Chamberlin-category) may be a good starting point...
Regards
Tim

not really a flute-like sound

[timmmy000]

I've visited a friend in Piombino (near Elba) but I'm not familiar with the instrument...@DadeBonetti can you tell us more about the instrument?

Regards
Tim

[timmmy000]

a quick Wiki-research and you get more informations: It#s an instrument which you can call a woodwind - but not like a flute, more like a single-reed-instrument... I don't know any brand of keyboards which has a launeddas-sound (perhaps an oriental-version of a korg-PA-keyboard..).

[Mr_-G-]

In the video I saw in YT it was played polyphonically (three flutes, sounding somehow reminiscent of a bagpipe, with one of them being a drone). Very different sound and the player was incredible.

[Spider]

yes it's a very ancient Mediterranean reed instrument, one of the "flutes" is a drone playing a fixed note (that's why there are several "models" with different tuning), the left hand plays accompaniment and the right plays the melody.
Even if it looks like a flute, it's more akin to a "bagpipe without the bag". Even more because it's played by circular breathing without interruptions in sound, thus producing a continuous organ-like tone like the bagpipe, rather than a typical "wind instrument" sound with pauses and interruptions for breathing.

[DadeBonetti]

I've visited a friend in Piombino (near Elba) but I'm not familiar with the instrument...@DadeBonetti can you tell us more about the instrument?

Regards
Tim

I'm not an expert, it's a traditional instrument from Sardinia, more reed than flute