The influence of traditional African grooves on modern Western music inspired Native Instruments to create a software instrument / sample library “West Africa”. The instrument is addressed to those musicians who wish to use traditional African polyrhythmic grooves in their music.
West Africa contains percussion and melodic instruments as well as polyrhythmic patterns that can be used in an arrangement to create movie / video soundtracks or popular music.
The software reproduces a typical six-piece ensemble, with different types of djembe drums and dundong (“talking drum”) playing the lead. Other instruments include West African harps, percussion, flute, ngoni string instrument, and so on. The sample library is 3 GB.
The software instrument is equipped with a special sequester that provides playback of more than 70 pre-programmed ensemble patterns – complex West African grooves, solos, individual sounds that can be controlled using the keyboard.
Patterns are automatically synchronized to the tempo of the main audio / MIDI sequencer and can be edited or new patterns created from scratch. There is a choice of scales (seven-step and chromatic), as well as various options for the configuration of the ensemble.
FULL & UPDATE means that you can download the already updated full version if you install it for the first time or download only the update if there is a previous one.
v1.4.1 – 28/06/2021
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