The Essentials to Know About the Ancient Bundle Software
- A comprehensive world music bundle bringing together Ancient Kingdom, RA, SILK, and GYPSY to cover rare winds, strings, ensembles, and traditional colors.
- Expressive and realistic performances thanks to detailed articulations, legato scripts, round robin, and intelligent performance sections.
- "Ready-to-produce" sound with multi-mic, flexible routing, convolution reverb, and effect mixes ranging from natural to cinematic.
- A creative playground for film, TV, video game, trailer, ambient composition, and modern ethnic sound design.
What Ancient Bundle Is For
Ancient Bundle is a production solution designed to quickly integrate ethnic virtual instruments and textures inspired by traditions from around the world into your arrangements. Whether you are writing an intimate duduk melody, a gypsy rhythmic sequence, a microtonal Asian color, or an expressive percussive ensemble, this bundle allows you to move from authentic performance to hybrid soundscapes for scoring and modern music.
Main Features
Ancient Kingdom: Rare Instruments and Sound Transformation
Ancient Kingdom highlights rare winds performed by artist Saulius Petreikis, with multi-mic recordings and four effect paths to sculpt timbres ranging from pure acoustic to "otherworldly." The intuitive interface simplifies library management, articulations, mic setups, and offers Mood presets, performance scripts, and MIDI controls to maintain expressive and musical playability.
RA: Global Palette and Advanced Play Control
RA gathers rare instruments from Africa, Europe, India, the Americas, Australia, the Far East, the Middle East, and Turkic empires. The intelligent performance section (portamento, repetitions, legato), round robin reset, and an enhanced articulation window speed up workflow, while a convolution reverb with pre-delay adds depth and coherence.
SILK: Expressiveness, Legato, and Microtuning
SILK emphasizes "live" playing with extended articulations, interval sampling when relevant, round robin, legato scripts, and authentic performances. Highlight: a microtuning system allowing tuning adaptation to different colors and traditions directly within the OPUS environment.
GYPSY: Strings, Guitars, and Stage Energy
GYPSY targets realism for cinema, TV, and video games, featuring violin and trombone with numerous articulations, repetitions, and legato intervals. Nylon guitars were sampled with up/down strokes, multiple velocities and picking styles, including release trails, chords, and effects, complemented by traditional percussion and flamenco dance elements.
Technical Specifications
Included Content (Bundle)
- Ancient Kingdom: collection of rare wind instruments, multi-mic recordings, 4 effect paths, FX mixes, convolution reverbs, flexible routing, Mood presets, performance scripts, and MIDI controls.
- RA (OPUS Edition): multi-sampled rare instruments, intelligent performance (portamento, repetition, legato), round robin reset, enhanced articulation window, convolution reverb with pre-delay, OPUS programming from original recordings.
- SILK: 25 GB (20 GB of multi-samples + 5 GB of authentic performances), recorded legato intervals (erhu, zhonghu, jinhu, electric cello, kemenche, duduk, 30-player string section, dilruba, bansuri), advanced microtuning, convolution reverb and scripting via the OPUS interface.
- GYPSY: 11 GB of samples (violin, trombone, multiple guitars, accordions, and more), fast and slow violin legato slides, optimized "out of the box" settings, traditional percussion, flamenco dance stomps, and castanets.
Included Ancient Kingdom Instruments (Selection)
- Armenian duduk (available in A, C, and G)
- Bansuri (Indian bamboo flute, warm and airy timbre)
- Birbyne (available in A and Db)
- Dambrelis (traditional Lithuanian jaw harp in metal or bamboo)
- Double shepherd flute (wooden double slave flute)
- Flugelhorn (brass with soft and rich timbre)
- Fujara (High and Large)
- Goat Horn
- Goat Horn Ebony
- Hulushi (High and Low)
- Irish Whistle (Regular and High)
- Labanoro duda (rare Lithuanian bagpipe)
- Native American Cedar Flute (Flute and Piccolo)
Recording and Sound Quality (Provided Elements)
- SILK recorded by expert musicians at East West Studios, using vintage Neumann microphones, Neve consoles, and Meitner converters
- Convolution reverb (RA and OPUS interface mentioned), with pre-delay for RA
- Multi-mic and transformation via effect mixes, convolution reverbs, and routing (Ancient Kingdom)
Playability and Articulation
- Ancient Kingdom categories and articulations: 26 categories, subcategories Long, Short, Effects, Legato, and Keyswitch
- RA: portamento, repetitions, legato, round robin reset, enhanced articulation controls
- SILK: extended articulations, interval sampling (depending on instruments), round robin, legato scripting, phrases, and microtuning
- GYPSY: true legato (violin), legato intervals, articulations and repetitions, multi-attack guitars (up/down), multiple velocities and styles, release trails, chords, and effects
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