Plectra Series
Turkish Oud
Intricately sampled oud, featuring all crucial articulations and a microtuning engine.
$99
Hear Plectra Series 4: Turkish Oud In Action
- Akşam Namazı (Dressed) Abel Vegas 1:16
- Huseyni Taksim Dimitris Plagiannis 0:29
- Kum Tarafından Kör (with ambience) Abel Vegas 2:14
- Moriarty (Dressed) Max Zhdanov 1:35
- The Ottoman in Spain Kurt M. Landre 1:03
- Showdown (Dressed) Brad Jerkins 1:14
- St. Brides Bay (Dressed) Henning Nugel 0:58
- Out of Bounds (Dressed) Frank Herrlinger 2:05
- The Buried Gates of Atlantis Nicolas Felix 2:16
- Brahem Dimitris Plagiannis 0:32
- Night Ark Dimitris Plagiannis 0:42
- Akşam Namazı (Naked) Abel Vegas 1:16
- Showdown (Naked) Brad Jerkins 1:09
- Out of Bounds (Naked) Frank Herrlinger 2:05
- The Tomb Wilbert Roget, II 0:28
Reviews
Simon Franglen
Titanic, Skyfall, Spectre, Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water
Impact Soundworks make detailed, emotive instruments. I’ve happily bought over two dozen of their libraries which should say everything. They get used every day.
Mark Portmann
Ariana Grande, Luis Fonsi, Celine Dion, Quincy Jones
"[ISW]'s instruments consistently deliver the sound, feel, and reliability I need to do my best work. Thank you for raising the bar and making tools that inspire."
Neal Acree
World of WarCraft, Diablo III, StarCraft II, Overwatch
"Impact Soundworks has some of the most creative and innovative libraries out there. From world instruments to the insanely deep sampled Shreddage guitar series the Impact catalog is full of must-haves and unexpected and inspiring surprises. Highly recommended!
Stewart Winter
Co-founder, VideoHelper
"I'm a keyboard player -- I can't even make a REAL guitar sound convincing. But Telos and Rosette are my go-to guitars because they sound incredible, sit well in a mix and are so easy to configure to my personal playing habits. I'm constantly discovering new ways to play them and they've saved my ass more times than I can count. And the pedal Steel is still my favorite library of its kind for Country, Folk and organic layering behind synths."
Brian Pickett
PAW Patrol, Lucas the Spider, Daniel Tiger
"I never would have thought that sampled guitars could sound as good as ISW's do. The fact that I can use them to lay down a realistic solo is unprecedented. They’ve pushed the boundaries of realism."
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"The sound of the library is very pleasing...the more I used the library the more I felt I was learning how to write idiomatically for the instrument." "Rosette Mandolin provides a good sound that could have many applications, with versatile input options that cater to writing realistic mandolin lines, impossible 5+ note chords and everything in between." Thomas Field, September 2024
Richard Jacques
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, Mass Effect, Overwatch 2, James Bond 007: Blood Stone
"I'm a huge fan of the Ventus Winds series. They feature rare instruments deep-sampled to an incredibly high level of detail. It's so liberating to have such a wide range of articulations & phrases that perfectly capture the nuances and performance style of these instruments... from beautiful to haunting, celebratory to sorrowful. Each is expertly recorded and the sound quality is superb, sitting in the mix with ease. If you want to add authentic world winds to your palette, then look no further."
Kevin Manthei
Angry Birds Mystery Island, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Villainous, Neverwinter, Star Trek Online
"ISW creates some of the most inspiring & realistic guitar sample libraries. I had to write a bunch of really gritty, angry heavy metal & sports action rock cues. I used Shreddage 3 Serpent for leads and was blown away by its onboard processing, programming, and amazing live-sounding leads. I also created a signature sound based on the lead guitar in David Lynch's Twin Peaks series, originally played on baritone guitar. [Serpent] built a convincing replica of that sound just using on-board FX. It was so fun and easy to do!"
Audio Demos
- Akşam Namazı (Dressed) Abel Vegas 1:16
- Huseyni Taksim Dimitris Plagiannis 0:29
- Kum Tarafından Kör (with ambience) Abel Vegas 2:14
- Moriarty (Dressed) Max Zhdanov 1:35
- The Ottoman in Spain Kurt M. Landre 1:03
- Showdown (Dressed) Brad Jerkins 1:14
- St. Brides Bay (Dressed) Henning Nugel 0:58
- Out of Bounds (Dressed) Frank Herrlinger 2:05
- The Buried Gates of Atlantis Nicolas Felix 2:16
- Brahem Dimitris Plagiannis 0:32
- Night Ark Dimitris Plagiannis 0:42
- Akşam Namazı (Naked) Abel Vegas 1:16
- Showdown (Naked) Brad Jerkins 1:09
- Out of Bounds (Naked) Frank Herrlinger 2:05
- The Tomb Wilbert Roget, II 0:28
Overview
A highly realistic, detailed fretless lute-like stringed instrument: a custom-made, masterwork Turkish Oud performed by Stelios Varveris and produced by Dimitris Plagiannis. It features all crucial articulations, a gorgeous and inspiring UI, and a full microtuning engine for authentic playing.
Product Info
3,860 x 24bit recordings with 2 mics
All strings chromatically sampled
4x dynamics / 4x RR per key
Up & downstrokes
Essential articulations
Sustain, hammer-on, pull-off, tremolo, glissando, vibrato, and more.
Major, minor, and fifth chords
Features
Full control of string, articulation, stroke
Intelligent voicing + fretting engine
Microtuning with presets and oriental scales
Requirements
2.5GB of disk space
7200 RPM hard drive or solid state drive recommended.
4GB of RAM
Higher amounts of memory let you load more instruments.
Kontakt 5.3+ Full Version
This library is NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player.
Kontakt Requirements - Mac OSX
Intel Macs (i5 or higher): macOS 10.14, 10.15, 11 or 12 (latest update).
Apple Silicon Macs (via Rosetta 2 & natively on ARM in Standalone or in hosts that support it): macOS 11 or 12 (latest update)
Kontakt Requirements - Windows
Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10 (latest Service Pack, 32/64-bit). Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU. Graphics hardware support for OpenGL 2.1 or higher. Windows 10 strongly recommended.
Tutorials
Overview & Walkthrough
Film and Game Composers Review
Featured Artists & Composers
Brian Pickett
PAW Patrol, Lucas the Spider, Daniel Tiger
“I never would have thought that sampled guitars could sound as good as ISW’s do. The fact that I can use them to lay down a realistic solo is unprecedented. They’ve pushed the boundaries of realism.”
Mike Reagan
Invincible Fight Girl, Powerpuff Girls, Trials Evolution, God of War, Twisted Metal
“A big thanks to the team at Impact Soundworks for putting inspiration at my fingertips! Your sample libraries are in heavy use in my Orchestral, Rock and Pop templates, and always visible in my top-tier Cue-specific Kontakt. Layering your Shreddage libraries on top of my live guitar tracks creates so much depth, and I get so much out of so many of your other libraries – too many to name. A+ programming and sonic goodness gang!”
Ben Prunty
FTL: Faster Than Light, Into the Breach, Subnautica: Below Zero
“I’ve been using ISW since 2015, and their instruments have shown up in Into the Breach and Subnautica Below Zero, and in nearly all of my solo albums. Shreddage helped me fill in the gaps around my own guitar performances. Super Audio Cart provided some great raw synth sounds for parts of Below Zero. Impact Soundworks is often the first place I go to when I’m shopping for a new project. Everything they make works and sounds great.”
Continuing our tradition of beautifully-sampled, stringed Plectra Series instruments comes the Turkish Oud. This Kontakt library, produced by Dimitris Plagiannis, sets a new standard for depth, playability, and realism in non-Western sampled instruments. We are delighted to present Plectra Series 4 – the most realistic and playable virtual oud ever released.
The history of the oud extends back to antiquity, having been referenced in writings over 1,000 years old. It is a fretless, stringed instrument that has been used in both Middle Eastern and European music for many centuries, and is now played all over the world. The instrument we sampled is a custom-made, double soundboard Turkish oud by Faruk Türünz. The instrument was performed by Stelios Varveris and recorded with pristine Neumann & AKG mics through an SSL console in a treated studio room.
We are thrilled to make this instrument available to you, and hope that you will use it in many compositions from film/TV/game scores to authentic mockups, or even rock & pop tracks. Enjoy!
Our goal in creating this library was to produce an incredibly intuitive instrument that simply sounds great out of the box. The powerful script engine seamlessly voices notes and chords – no complex keyswitches required. Advanced users can delve into the gorgeous, inspiring user interface for custom mix controls like microphone blend, EQ, compression, and reverb, and microtuning presets can be used to achieve incredibly authentic performances.
The instrument also boasts a powerful microtuning engine, with adjustments of up to a quarter tone per note. This page includes a dropdown menu with preset tunings of various authentic tuning styles. Additionally, you can change the root note of your microtuning configuration, and if instead of prepared tunings, you wish to invoke microtuning on the fly, you can simply turn the key knob to the “custom” setting; this will enable bottom octave latching keyswitches for on-the-fly microtuning. In this mode, all notes that are microtuned are tuned down a full quarter tone.
Reviews
Plectra Series 4: Turkish Oud – Film and Game Composers
“Installation – 100% | Patches – 100% | Interface – 100% | Sound – 100% | Value – 100% = 100/100 | 100%
If ever there was a perfect sample library, this is it. Not only does it fill a sorely missing void in the sampling realm, it sounds damn near amazing while it does so.”
Meena Shamaly (Film and Game Composers)