If you already own World Suite you will be happy to know that World Suite 2 introduces an additional 48 instruments and over 2000 loops. This library includes well over 65,000 samples combined from World Suite and with new additions that come with World Suite 2. It’s also great if you are a beginner because it covers a lot of ground if you are not that well-versed in regards to ethnic instruments and world music. Far East, Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, The Americas, Australia and Oceania, literally everything you need to cater to your world music demands. This is an all-inclusive collection of instruments from all over the world.

UVI – World Suite 2Īnother one that came out this year and only a month prior to Phoenix Orchestra is UVI’s update to the highly popular World Suite. There are no pre-recorded phrases, as everything is completely playable.

All of the instruments are recorded with up to 4 mic positions and each one of them features traditional playing techniques, dynamic articulations, swells and ornaments that are characteristic of these types of instruments. The results are simply astonishing as this library captures the exceptional playing mastery of Ding Yi Music Company recorded in Thailand at Karma Studios. Gu Zheng, Dizi, Xiao, Erhu and Zhonghu are only a few of the instruments available.Īside from having twenty-one individual instruments sampled, this collection also offers seven instrument ensembles as well as four ethnic orchestral sections. It features an ethnic orchestra recorded in Situ position (with players in traditional seating arrangement), and comes with a plethora of various plucked instruments, woodwinds, bowed instruments and percussion at your fingertips. Phoenix Orchestra is a collection of ethnic instruments from China and this library was specifically created for Harry Gregson-Williams’ score for Disney’s Mulan. Orchestral Tools are best-known for their top-notch orchestral libraries and they really went out of their “comfort zone” with this one. Phoenix Orchestra came out during September this year and it is a collaboration between Orchestral Tools, Richard Harvey and Harry Gregson-Williams. These libraries will surely fit the need for any historical, epic fantasy or world music production challenge you are dealing with. There weren’t a lot of releases this year so we had an idea to scout for some of the best ones that are available at the moment.

Ethnic instruments are a mandatory tool in the arsenal of every composer out there working on fantasy or period-based soundtracks.

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