Welcome to Soundiron's Acoustic Saz library! Acoustic Saz is a truly, deeply sampled 5-string acoustic saz baglâma library for Kontakt with a huge range of extended content, an innovative new custom interface and cutting-edge powerful performance features. This beautiful fretless Saz was procured directly from the streets of Turkey, where master craftsman have been building them by hand for centuries. We painstakingly sampled all three “runs” of strings (low octave, middle single and high unison) with a massive 12x round robin and up to 6 velocity layers for open notes on an octave and a half per string. Continuing the depth are palm mutes, string chokes, release samples and a slew of percussive effects all at 12x round robin with multiple velocity layers.

We set out to make the Acoustic Saz the most realistic, playable and flexible instrument we could, expertly capturing it’s naturally beautiful sound in stunning clarity and unmatched depth. With a powerful custom interface, intelligent pluck mode, hand position, tuning, key range, chord, strum, legato, arpeggiation, effects rack and advanced custom performance technologies, we put the power of the real instrument right in your hands. Enjoy!

The Saz is a very expressive instrument, so we carefully sampled a wide legato, or “slide” range for all three runs of strings with multiple velocity layers and 4x round robin. Our exciting new interface offers unique control over how a note is played and which string it is played on, allowing you to flip between features instantly at the push of a button. Hammer-on, pull-off, slide, choke and palm mute are all controlled on a per string (or all strings) basis, which can be momentary (as long as a key is held) or latching (turned on and off with subsequent presses of the key).

We’ve also included an intelligent auto-strumming system called the “Strumulator”, giving you instant access to 12 different chords which automatically ensures that each note is played on the appropriate string. There are special patches for creating custom tunedpercussion blends, effects, Uberpeggiator and of course ambiences.

Each and every preset also includes a powerful Effects control panel, featuring a parametric EQ for tone shaping and our powerful exclusive Uberpeggiator system, capable of freestyle and 32-step tempo-synched humanized groove creation, sustaining rolls, chord- and key-constraint and custom arpeggiation pattern saving and loading.

The Acoustic Saz also features our powerful Effects Rack system, giving you an elegant and intuitive interface with access to a wide range of effects including Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Dynamics, Drive (featuring 4 different effects), 2 amp sims, 8 cabs, EQ, Filter, tempo-synched Delay and convolution Reverb with a bunch of new custom impulses.

Open notes covering 1½ octaves per string (12x RR)
Note releases covering 1½ octaves per string (12x RR)
Palm Mute notes covering 1½ octaves per string (12x RR)
Choked notes per string (12x RR)
True legato "slide" samples covering over an octave per string (4x RR)
5 Different body impacts (12x RR)
A variety of string scrape effects
Dozens of finger slide sound effects ranging from short to long
22 sound design ambient pads and leads built from bowing, eBowing and other methods
The Acoustic Saz includes a brand new innovative interface for amazing control:

Performance controls closely simulate real-world saz Functionality
Tuned Percussion preset type that allows two simultaneous yet independently controlled layers.
70 custom environmental, room and FX reverbs integrated into every preset
The Uberpeggiator meta-arp system with velocity step sequencer, humanization, adaptive modes, roll simulation, chord and scale control and custom pattern loading (K5 only)
The Strumulator strumming system provides easy 1-key strums based on 12 different chords using multi-samples.
The Uberpeggiator meta-arp system with velocity step sequencer, humanization, adaptive modes, roll simulation, chord and scale control and custom pattern loading (K5 only)
The Glissatron arppegiation system provides easy 1-key glisses and arpeggios based on a variety of scales with customizable rhythm, direction, velocity and humanization.
Powerful new FX Rack with 8 fully-automatable FX modules from distortions to reverb.

Product Specs

6.8 GB installed
6,971 Samples
15 Kontakt 5.1 .nki instrument presets
11 Kontakt 4.2.4 .nki instrument presets (legacy)
24 bit / 48kHz uncompressed PCM wav audio
Unlocked Kontakt presets and wav samples to allow user customization
Documentation

Click here for English pdf manual
System Requirements

The full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt version 5 (or later) is required to use .nki instrument presets included in this library. We've also included legacy K4 versions of the main presets as well for Kontakt 4 users. The free Kontakt "Player" and "Add Library" import process do not support this standard open-format Kontakt library. Windows XP or higher. Mac OSX 10.6 or higher. Dual Core CPU, 2 GB System Ram, SATA or SSD hard drive recommended for this library.

http://soundiron.com/products/acoustic-saz