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Anyone know good sample packs with sitar sounds especially? And tabla?

No sitar in it, but the pack "Percussionism" to be found on Loopmasters sorted me on tabla and the like. Did you check freesound?

Don't know of any sitar packs... to be honest, I don't really consider it an instrument that lends itself well to sample packs (unless it was part of an extensively sampled VST - like East West does for classical stringed instruments).


When wanted to use sitar in a track, I found it easier to find a sitar player and have her play live on my track.

Mad EP wrote:Don't know of any sitar packs... to be honest, I don't really consider it an instrument that lends itself well to sample packs (unless it was part of an extensively sampled VST - like East West does for classical stringed instruments).


When wanted to use sitar in a track, I found it easier to find a sitar player and have her play live on my track.

Next best thing: sample Ravi Shankar albums. He's done a fair few OSTs as well, these are often times easier to sample.

http://rekkerd.org/dsk-releases-asian-dreamz/

I found this ages ago and it's pretty decent for a free VST and has instruments similar to what you're looking for

fragments wrote:

Mad EP wrote:Don't know of any sitar packs... to be honest, I don't really consider it an instrument that lends itself well to sample packs (unless it was part of an extensively sampled VST - like East West does for classical stringed instruments).


When wanted to use sitar in a track, I found it easier to find a sitar player and have her play live on my track.

Next best thing: sample Ravi Shankar albums. He's done a fair few OSTs as well, these are often times easier to sample.

How legal is sampling actually? Like taking 5 seconds of, say, a sitar song from the 70s and re-using it?

Renewed wrote:How legal is sampling actually? Like taking 5 seconds of, say, a sitar song from the 70s and re-using it?

For a copyrighted song (as most commercially released records are).... technically it is not legal. The reality is, if you chop it up (don't just loop the 5 second chunk as-is), possibly repitch it, etc... you will probably be fine.

There have been plenty of copyright / legality discussions that you can look up to prevent the thread from derailing too much.

I found some good free kontakt patches of sitars and see African percussion, I'll find the link and post it. If you don't have Kontakt just use the samples

Brothulhu wrote:I found some good free kontakt patches of sitars and see African percussion, I'll find the link and post it. If you don't have Kontakt just use the samples

That would be awesome! I don't have Kontakt yet, so samples would be nice!!

The samples come with the Kontakt patches so just use them instead of opening the patch and you can load em into any sampler - http://0on3.wordpress.com (there are 2 Sitar packs in there)

Brothulhu wrote:The samples come with the Kontakt patches so just use them instead of opening the patch and you can load em into any sampler - http://0on3.wordpress.com (there are 2 Sitar packs in there)

Nice! Thanks!

Are there single shot sitar chord sample packs anywhere?

Renewed wrote:Are there single shot sitar chord sample packs anywhere?

Did you find the samples in the Kontakt patch folder?

Brothulhu wrote:

Renewed wrote:Are there single shot sitar chord sample packs anywhere?

Did you find the samples in the Kontakt patch folder?

yeah, just got done with the second one, yup there are some one shots, alright lol. Thanks for the tip again.

Benji wrote:http://rekkerd.org/dsk-releases-asian-dreamz/

I found this ages ago and it's pretty decent for a free VST and has instruments similar to what you're looking for

There's an Indian dreamZ one aswell and it has sitar IIRC, nice plugins

I know there's a good free vst somewhere