Newcomers Triple A Audio have released Qanun, a meticulously recorded virtual instrument brings the mystical melodies of the Middle East and the Caucasus to your digital studio. Qanun is available at the intro price of $79.99, increasing to $99.99 after the promotion.
Explore the world of music like never before. Add the rich, beautiful tones of our deeply sampled Qanun to your music.
The Qanun goes as far back as music itself. Played in the courts of Assyria and written about by ancient Greek historians, it’s still in play today across the Middle East and beyond. As it’s one of the first instruments in play today to emerge in history, it’s only natural that we picked it as our first instrument to release.
What Triple A Audio sampled and present you here is the Armenian Qanun in its truest digital form and was hand-made in a small village in Armenia in the Southern Caucasus. Made of wood with an animal skin-covered base, it has metal levers and wooden tuning pegs to alter the pitch of the note and can play a range of up to 3 and a half octaves. The player wears a silver thimble and a pick made of bull horns on both index fingers.
The Armenian Qanun has an entirely different structure and sound than the other variants of the instrument. It is the only instrument sharing the name to have two diatonic levers, with reference mandals placed at equidistant half-tones (Arabic Qanuns, on the other hand, use quarter-tones, and Turkish models going further). This gives the Armenian Qanun an equal temperament that extends the musical range of the instrument beyond the mughams of the Middle East onto Western-style concertos, symphonies and even jazz.
Besides its exotic merits, the Qanun can serve as a replacement for piano and harp in traditional arrangements. Bring a touch of uniqueness and mystery to your cinematic arrangements or indulge in Middle Eastern flavors with the Qanun at the front.
Features include:
- 6708 samples
- 3 GB (5.84 GB uncompressed)
- 2 microphone positions
- Up to 5 velocity layers
- Up to 5 round robins
Watch the walkthrough video HERE.
Qunun requires a full version of Kontakt 6 or later.
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