Audiowiesel has launched E-Ukulele, a huge (over 1 GB of audio material!) free Kontakt instrument library featuring the sounds of an Epiphone Les Paul electronic ukulele.
We sampled an electronic ukulele (Les Paul model) from Epiphone. At the beginning it was just a fun project and we kept adding new sample content for private use only. Now, we decided to make this available to the public as free download in order to let everybody use this in their own productions.
E-Ukulele includes two different versions of the instrument. One version features only the chord samples, while the other one is geared towards solo performances. Both versions of the instrument feature tons of content though, so the chords instrument for example comes with 10 different chord variations for every root note! This means that you can play all the different variations of a chord such as major, minor, sus2, sus4, etc.
The single notes version of the instrument includes four velocity layers and 11 round robin variations per velocity, for a total of 1,258 individual samples! That is an insane amount of sample material for a free product and I can’t thank the Audiowiesel team enough for releasing this amazing sample library as a free product. According to the description, they’ve been building it for personal use and at one point they’ve decided to release it as a free product for everyone.
This is obviously a HUGE free sample library and a must have for anyone who would like to add sampled ukulele sounds to their instrument arsenal. The sampling job was done flawlessly and the instrument comes with tons of cool features in order to make the performance sound even more natural. We don’t get a freebie like this one every day!
Perhaps the only real drawback is that the library only works in Kontakt 5 since the individual samples are not included in the download pack (you can also use the library for 15 minutes in the freeware Kontakt Player). I’d love to see an alternative version of E-Ukulele which would include individual WAV samples. If you don’t own Kontakt, the best free ukulele sound collection which you can download at the moment is SFZ FLukelele by PatchArena.
Audio Demo
Check out the E-Ukulele audio demo:
Download
E-Ukulele is available for free download via Audiowiesel (0.98 GB download size, ZIP archive, contains 2 instrument patches in NKI format for Native Instruments Kontakt 5).
2 Comments
just FYI, this requires an account and for you to go through the whole checkout process. Being only mildly interested I know this was enough to make me pass.
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