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Hurdy Gurdy
Does anyone know of an app that reproduces the sound of a Hurdy Gurdy?
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Not specifically a Hurdy Gurdy, but the Roland Sound canvas has accordians and a reed organ, if you played one (or a combination) of those with a bass drone, I think you’d be pretty close.
Hi Phil, thanks. I will give that a try and see how close I can get to it.
Omg I was wondering the same thing!!
I have not had any luck with even finding any hurdy gurdy soundfonts, but have been able to make a passable simulation by layering a harmonium with drones.
Sadly, nothing at all for IOS but plenty for Kontakt if you're interested in the list I dug up a few years ago while searching for the same thing.
Interesting you should go for reeds, since a hurdy gurdy is a string instrument where the strings are bowed by a wheel turned by a crank and the notes are fretted by keys trapping the melody strings against the fingerboard.
Ok I was well off the mark - would a violin be the closest instrument then? I still think it sounds a bit reedy, even if the sound is produced in a completely different way.
I don’t really disagree, there is a reediness, I just thought it was interesting that a reed instrument was the closest analogue to a string instrument.
You really would think that would be the case, but I have never been able to get that weird keening sound of the hurdy gurdy using string emulations. Using reeds such as the harmonium,, I have found it works best in the higher octaves.
I’d guess that the key elements are more upper frequencies creating a scratchiness to the sound due to a combination of fingers not absorbing higher frequencies and the friction device having less ‘give’ than a bow, plus the lack of vibrato making it more like a keyboard instrument such as a harmonium. Additionally, all the mechanical gubbins makes the resonance of the instrument quite different from a violin or viola.
I was hoping this was a Donovan thread
There’s a free VSTi.
http://samcycle.blogspot.com/2016/06/samsara-hurdy-gurdy-free-vsti.html
Make that two...
http://www.soundbytes.de/HurdyGurdy/?index_le
Thanks, I will try them out on the PC. Ideally I'm really looking for it in an app as my recording is done on AuriaPro but this might be the closest I can get. I don't really use desktop and plugins although I do have Ableton Live Lite and Reaper.
Astounding technoid hurdy gurdy ...
@Paul16
Wow. That was awesome.
innit, especially half way in when he (i assume) hits the pedalboard
Fuck yeah !
The Uilleann or Scottish small pipes in Thumbjam might approximate with a bit of work
Incredible. At least we know now why no one has managed to replicate this on iOS.
Love that track.
Cheers!
There’s a pretty good Hurdy Gurdy preset for Decent Sampler.
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/rare-hurdy-gurdy/
@offbrands
I use DS on iPad. And I’ve given up on adding any new sounds to it cause it’s always a pain in the butt, fighting with .zip and .dslibrary files when half of them don’t work in the end. But the ones I loaded in there sound “decent” so it stays on the device and gets forgotten. This Hurdy gurdy post reminded me I had it tbh
It also got me thinking… I’ve been looking for a fuzz pedal emulation and it seems to me that there are things, like the hurdy gurdy, that are just real hard to recreate digitally. They aren’t complex (a fuzz circuit is fairly simple) but it’s the nature of their “analog” sound creation that isn’t completely reachable with computers. Lucky for me, a hardware fuzz pedal is a LOT cheaper and easier to find than a hurdy gurdy. It would be wild if SWAM released one haha
Nah, there’s a lotta good “big muff” style fuzzes but I’m looking for more of the tone bender/fuzz factory type stuff. Fuzzes with bias and gate knobs where you can get that gated, Velcro-y sound going. Big muffs also just sound like distortion to me. I hear there’s some decent stuff on desktop, so hoping some get ported to ios eventually.
I’ll keep an eye out for more hurdy gurdy goodness as well 🤙
Neat thanks! I’m new to drambo and still learning the ins and outs, but I’ll give it a looksee. Never thought of using drambo for guitar, but I often hear “drambo does everything” so why not! Where’s the drambo hurdy gurdy patch!? 🤪
Just downloaded the PianoBook / Decent Sampler hurdy-gurdy and it loads fine.
No idea how realistic the sound is but I can see it being useful.
BTW other than perhaps 1 in 75 DS samples (I only use the free ones) failing to load (I think perhaps confined to the ones that are shared Kontakt / DS samples) I have no issues with DS at all on the iPad.
Glad to hear it! It was more 50/50 in my experience, spoke with David (great fella!) about it, he recommended changing the .zip or .dspreset to .dslibrary (I think? It was a while back) but I still had a low success rate. Even some of the “paid” ones from his patron wouldn’t work. I just chalked it up to my iPad being older/not running at the current iPados and moved on. The app itself runs great tho, no crashes, had a blast going through the preset library and revisiting instruments n sounds!