World suite is in its variety of instruments, vocals, loops, and phrases truly a one-stop-shop for all your ethnic musical needs with a library of over 320 unique instruments to choose from variety is something that World suite certainly does not lack.Īfrica: 55 different instruments including Flutes, Guitars, Large drums, Percussions, Balafon, Bamboo sax, Karimba, Kora, Mbira, Ngoni Donso, Sanzas, and Udu and over 650 loops and Phrases.Īsia: 78 Different instruments including Bian Zhong and Qing, Dan Moi, Er Hu, Gongs, Koto, Laotian Zither, Miscellaneous percussions, Pipa, Shakuhachi, Shamisen, and Taiko and over 290 Loops and phrases.Īustralia: 14 different instruments including Aboriginal drums, Aboriginal Flutes, Aboriginal Percussion, Didgeridoo, and Jaw Harp and over 450 loops and phrases.Ĭeltic: 28 different instruments including Bagpipes, Celtic Guitars, Celtic percussions, Celtic whistles, Concertina, Fiddle, Harmonica, Harp, and Irish Bouzouki and over 460 Loops and phrases.Įastern Europe: 10 different instruments including Balkanish double bass, Balkanish Violin, Bulgarian Tupan, Eastern Accordion, Eastern Lyra, Hungarian Cymbalum, Moldavian Cymbalum, Roots Balalaika, Russian Balalaika, and Ukrainian Bandura and over 330 loops and phrases.
The layout of the Kontakt instruments is really nicely designed making the instruments readable in just a quick glance which lends itself well to performing keyboardists.Īll of the instruments in UVI’s World suite have multiple recordings of that instrument which can be easily selected with the key switches and being able to midi learn all of the sliders and knobs to your keyboard really lets you control the instruments expression and tonality with ease making it a great performance instrument. The instruments in the World suite from UVI all have a similar design to them with easy-to-use controls that change to fit the instrument you are playing at that time.
Vocals are a collection of vocal loops that are sorted by region and ambiance there are also two vocal traveler instruments that are a lot of fun to play with. Travelers are a six-track player for your loops and phrases allowing you to Mix, Transpose, and play up to six loops at a time and are sorted by region to create fast and intuitive instrument groupings for those fast flashes of inspiration. Loops and phrases let you browse through all of the single loops and phrases that have been used to create the instruments these can be played all along with the keyboard and thanks to UVI’s high-quality pitch shifting algorithm they sound really good. So UVI’s World Suite has a lot of instruments and sounds from all over the globe and it is all neatly sorted in the browser by Region, Type, Loops and phrases, Travelers, and Vocals.īrowsing by region allows you to choose iconic instruments from twelve regions across the globe: Africa, Asia, Australia, Celtic, Eastern Europe, India, Indonesia, Middle East, Occidental, South America, Spanish Gypsy, and West Indies.īrowsing by type lets you view all of the instruments in World Suite in six different instrument types: Bel metal and gong, Fretted string, Key, Percussion, Stringed, and woodwind. So let’s see what World Suite is comprised of starting with the Browser: Browser World Suite is a collection of over 320 virtual instruments compiled from over 50,000 samples and 8000 loops and phrases, totaling over 28 GB in size it’s safe to say that is quite an expansive resource of ethnic sounds and instruments from all over the globe and one of UVI’s largest libraries to date. In this review, we will be going over a new UVI sound library called World Suite.
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