With over 350 individually sampled ethnic instruments, Garritan World Instruments offers more individually sampled instruments than any other ethnic sample library. The collection includes:
Winds: Native American flutes, bamboo flutes, Irish flutes, Chinese and Japanese flutes, Indian flutes, clay flutes, recorders, pan flutes, nose flute, and other exotic winds
Percussion: Taiko drums, Balinese and Javanese Gamelan ensembles, log drums, tablas, Ewe drums, balaphon, Udu drum, talking drum, steel drums, Latin percussion, and more
Strings: Vibrato-controlled fiddle and erhu, sitars, koto, shamisen, kora, oud, santoor, rebab, harps, mandolins, and many other stringed instruments.
Many others: didgeridoo, Middle Eastern reed instruments, accordions, Tibetan bowls, harmonium,bagpipes, and more!
Intuitive Controls — The Garritan World Instruments Library is designed with playability and expressive control in mind. It features controls for dynamics, vibrato, keyswitched bends and tremolos, rolls, arpeggios, airflow noises, legato, auto-variability, auto-portamento, trills and more that make these samples realistic and expressive. Many of the controls in Garritan World Instruments are streamlined and standardized so that users can quickly become familiar with the library.