Sonokinetic decided to capture the enchanting sound of the classical Kemene and sample this instrument in high fidelity audio quality. This instrument ships with a built in musical heritage. A supreme performed and recorded cinematic approach of several ethnic musical styles. The instrument is a perfect match with the styles and flavors in other Sonokinetic ethnical sampled instrument and vocals.

The classical Kemene is a pear shaped 40cm in height, bowed string instrument that has a distinctive sound to it. It’s recognized immediately especially when set in a microtonal setting.

This Kemene sample library is based on musical structures similar to the ones found in other Ethnic sampled instruments by Sonokinetic, making this a valuable addition to and perfect match with your Sonokinetic sampling products. Based on more than 10 different styles these performances are divided in traditionals and improvisations. Where the traditionals focus more on melodies within a particularly Middle Eastern tone scale, improvisations use this tone material focus on a more ‘cinematical’ melodic approach.

This instrument ships with an intelligent legato scripted instrument, giving you an opportunity to play this instrument in real time and create your own melody lines. Complete with transition notes and bowed sustains.

Recorded at Sonokinetic Studios in Istanbul with our renowned and awarded sound team and Kemene master Mahinur Sezener, we’re very proud to release this unique instrument. We hope it will give you as much inspiration as it gave us and will suit your scoring template with elegance.

Sticking to our award-winning multi sampling / performance capturing concepts and teaming up with the world’s greatest musicians, recording artists, programmers, designers and scripters we are proud to present to you:

Core samples: Classical Kemene
1 instrument for Kontakt 4.2.4 and Kontakt 5.0.3
Temposynced Phrases featuring Intelligent Time Machine (ITM)
Phrasing available pitched to key
4800+ samples. (8,4+ GB sample content)
Authentic Legato samples and scripting
Traditionals & Improvisation phrases
Auto ending to phrases
xfade modwheel dynamics for legato patches
Modwheel phrase start control
GUI harmonic key display
Full tempo sync control.
Kontat 5 optimized “Time machine Pro” programming
1 impulse response: 24 bit wave format
Real-time sample content purging and loading
End Users Agreement
Kemene Reference document (PDF)
Artwork : “Kemene” DVD cover. Designed by Pavel Fuksa
Watermarked Kontakt patches

Format:
All files in 44.1 kHz , 24 Bit AIF format.
Programmed for Native Instruments Kontakt (Full versions!)