Multi-sampled singing bowls of various sizes, crystal and glass bowls, meditative/cinematic soundscapes, pads and synthesizer patches derived from processed and wave-tabled bowl sounds.

At the core of this library there are 7 multi-sampled singing bowls, beaten, rubbed and bowed with a cello bow. In addition there is a multi-sampled crystal bowl, a glass bowl and a ceramic bowl played with various beaters. Up to 2 minute long samples with electronically processed and re-synthesized bowl sounds and some wavetables derived from singing bowls complete the collection.

Up to 20+ Macros and switches plus the modulation wheel are assigned in each patch, many patches also use aftertouch, providing detailed and creative control over volume envelopes, filtering, amplitude- and pitch modulations, dynamics, stereo animation, layer leveling and more. All patches use some sort of background image in the UI, split patches have colored key-zones in the Falcon keyboard for easier navigation.

About 50% of the sample content was borrowed from my sound library Colliding Worlds for Groove Agent (distributed exclusively by Steinberg) and other patchpool libraries, the other half was produced especially produced for Singing Bowls & Friends.

You can view/download the PDF for this library with more details, the licence agreement, and the patchlist including descriptions and playing tips here.

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Specs:

    * 42 patches.
    *920.5 MB of samples (146 wavs/stereo/48 Khz/24 Bit), 8 wavetables, 1 impulse response and 4 background images for the interface.
    *Library size in total: 949.2 MB unzipped.
    * Delivery: download (839.3 MB)
    * The content is not encrypted, so you can use the samples and wavetables in other samplers and synths or directly in your DAW.
    * Requires the full version of Falcon 2.5.3 or higher, does not work with the UVI player.
    *Price: € 26 EUR

The demos below were produced using only patches from Singing Bowls & Friends, no post-processing was applied apart from a limiter on the master output.

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