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App for Far East Instruments?
I am looking for an app that has some Japanese and/or Chinese flutes and other instruments. Any suggestions?
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Yes, Geoshred (in IAPs) has a dizi, that's the only Chinese flute I can remember it having, offhand, but look at the lists of their Naada IAPs, there might be more. It's MPE, which is really what you want for that kind of thing.
There are some Chinese instrument apps by a Chinese developer too, Shantou Kong Audio, they're cheap, they're not mpe, but some people have spoken highly of them.
The GeoShred Naada instruments have some good ones
https://www.moforte.com/geoShredAssets7000/help/store/Store.html#collectionStore
The SWAM VariFlute is worth looking at
BeatHawk probably has some in one of the ‘region’ packs
ThumbJam has a few
Garageband has some nice ones.
Yes - def check out GarageBand.
Thanks all, I always forget about GarageBand, but I will check out SWAM and Geoshred as well.
That’s a good call about Variflute, I reckon, you can probably get a decent range of sounds from it and it’s a very nice MPE implementation. Only $10 too, if you wait for a sale you would probably get it for 5. My walkthrough of it here:
Someone mentioned Beathawk, and that's the app I usually use for these type of instruments. Beathawk has a lot of great IAPs in it.
All of the above, but don’t forget Kong Audio:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app-bundle/ka-mini-wind-instruments/id1737546935
Gavinski already mentioned Kong Audio, but I didn't know Kong Audio had a nice bundle available! That's cool. I may pick that up soon.
Edit - Meanwhile, I'm finally reinstalling Beathawk and all its IAPs I purchased onto my iPhone. Will do the same for my iPad later. Beathawk has some of the best choirs on iOS in my opinion. The "children's ih" choir produces some of the most bonechilling pads.
World Piano has some stuff. It’s not super expressive though.
If you already have a soundfont player.. I can direct you to some packed soundfonts with mid east/ Chinese instruments.
I like to use fontstack for stuff like that. You can load up 4 instances of these massive soundfonts have like 70 obscure/rare instruments
Big +1 for the Kongs; they're cheap, lightweight, sound fantastic, and play well with a wind controller right out of the box. Weird upside-down UI bug in standalone but otherwise perfect.
Variflute was a bit of a disappointment, but still fun. I'm sure I read somewhere that Audio Modeling were considering a range of world instruments. Swam duduk, dizi, shakuhachi, and ney would be brilliant.
jade starr covered several of these. i was about to buy several before i thought of the soundfonts
https://www.youtube.com/@JadeStarr/search?query=kong
SounDfont for Asian Instruments:
https://rekkerd.org/dsk-soundfonts/
Ancient Instruments:
https://www.polyphone.io/en/soundfonts/soundscapes/530-ancient-instruments-of-the-world
Huge thanks to everyone for the ideas. I do have FontStack but haven’t messed with it much @egobeats , I grabbed the fonts and man, Polyphone is a great resource. I also grabbed the Kong stuff.
Still watching GeoShred/Naada vids to see what interest me.