About Balkan Sax :

BALKAN SAX is a new playable alto sax that captures the style and nuances of balkan music and beyond. Superbly delivered by virtuoso reed player Achille Succi, it comes with 18 exciting articulations including sustained notes with strong vibratos, powerful normal-double and -triple staccatos, short glissandos up and down (scoops) and lots of stylistic embellishments and tempo synced approach notes to give your melody a vibrant life!

A must HAVE for composers and producers looking for high realism and instant gratification!

Balkan Sax comes with a highly intuitive, easy-to-use and ready-to-play interface with 2 top class reverb algorithms, delay and a gritty pedal-like distortion. ideal for lots of styles and musical genres, from jazz, pop, traditional music, Bregović-like scores and world music.

Features :

ARTICULATION LIST:

18 Keyswitches (Articulations):

• Sustain Notes
• Half Tone Long Mordent
• Short Gliss Up
• Whole Tone Long Mordent
• Short Gliss Down
• Half Tone Short Mordent
• Staccato
• Whole Tone Short Mordent
• Double Staccato (Double Tonguing)
• Minor Third Short Mordent
• Triple Staccato (Double Tonguing)
• Strong Vibrato Sustained Notes
• Special Balkan articulation
• Half Tone Double Mordent
• Balkan Phrase (tempo-synced)
• Whole Tone Double Mordent
• 4-note approach #1 (tempo-synced)
• 4-note approach #2 (tempo-synced)

BUILT-IN EFFECTS AND CONTROLLERS:

• Room Reverb
• Hall Reverb
• Delay
• Gritty pedal-like distortion

Credits:

Instrument: Alto Sax

Musician: Achille Succi

Recorded and mixed at HAVE Studio, Madrid, Spain

UI and Graphic Design: Kovdra Bureau

System Requirements :

• Free version of Kontakt Full 5.6.8
• 8 GB of RAM or more is highly recommended. You need to be able to run Kontakt Full Version 5.6.8