21-String African Harp
The Kora is a beautiful and mesmerizing African instrument. It is difficult to classify. With 21 strings and a cowhide resonator, it is a type of bridge harp, but with a touch of lute or guitar. Originating from Gambia, it is widely used in Mali, Senegal and throughout Africa.
The instrument sounds like a harp, but when played in the traditional style, it also has similarities to a guitar, played using flamenco or delta blues techniques, strumming polyrhythmic patterns with both hands.
This Soniccouture virtual instrument is designed to be very comfortable and versatile, and features a MIDI pattern player for authentic accompaniment and micro tuning for authentic scales.
The Kora is made from a gourd that is cut in half and covered with cowhide. This forms the resonator of the instrument. It has 21 strings suspended from a double-knurled bridge – 10 on one side, 11 on the other. This is typical of a double harp, and it is classified as such. However, since the strings originate from the fingerboard and pass over the bridge into the resonator, this also makes it a lute.
✔️ Features:
• 40 layers of velocity with circular repeats
• 25 layers of release decay samples
• 25 layers for muffled detero samples
• MIDI pattern player
• Stereo microphone channel, stereo contact microphone channel
• Sound design presets
System Requirements
- Publisher: Soniccouture
- Format: Kontakt (7.8.0+)
- Quality: Stereo 96 kHz 24 bits
- Size: 2.76 GB
