Javanese Gamelan
Tuned percussion ensemble from Indonesia with meditative, bell-like tones.
$99
Hear Javanese Gamelan In Action
- Book of Sorrow Matias Dapena (mixed by Titanio) 1:43
- Magadan (Naked) Gonzalo Varela 1:32
- Jasmine Tea Steven Cravis 2:55
- Fragmented Shimmers (Naked) Nabeel Ansari 1:20
- Footsteps Infinity Tone 2:18
- Jasmine Tea (Naked) Steven Cravis 2:55
- Book of Sorrow (Naked) Matias Dapena (mixed by Titanio) 1:43
- Ghost in the Gamelan Titanio 1:46
- G-Overdrive Zack Parrish 2:15
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
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Brian Pickett
PAW Patrol, Lucas the Spider, Daniel Tiger
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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
- Book of Sorrow Matias Dapena (mixed by Titanio) 1:43
- Magadan (Naked) Gonzalo Varela 1:32
- Jasmine Tea Steven Cravis 2:55
- Fragmented Shimmers (Naked) Nabeel Ansari 1:20
- Footsteps Infinity Tone 2:18
- Jasmine Tea (Naked) Steven Cravis 2:55
- Book of Sorrow (Naked) Matias Dapena (mixed by Titanio) 1:43
- Ghost in the Gamelan Titanio 1:46
- G-Overdrive Zack Parrish 2:15
Overview
Create beautiful, meditative sounds with Javanese Gamelan, featuring a tuned percussion ensemble from Indonesia with a transcendental tone that has inspired composers for centuries. Includes twelve unique instruments and a custom ensemble builder. Ideal for soundtracks, world music, atmospheric creations, New Age, and more.
Product Info
6,750 samples at pristine 24/48 quality
16 dynamic layers per key
Full & dampened recordings
12 individual instruments
Bonang, demung, gambang, gender
Gongs, kempul, kempyang, kenong
Kethuk, peking, saron, slenthem
Features
Custom ensemble builder patch
Per-instrument tuning & timing
Harmony builder & microtuning
Single patches w/ 3 tunings
Includes CONSOLE, over 30 FX
Requirements
6GB disk space
7200 RPM hard drive or solid state drive recommended.
4GB of RAM
Higher amounts of memory let you load more instruments.
Apple M1, Intel i5 or equivalent CPU
A faster CPU with more cores will allow you to play more simultaneous voices.
Kontakt 5.8.1+ Full
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
Walkthrough
Featured Artists & Composers
Jeff Broadbent
Assassin’s Creed Identity, Call of Duty Mobile, Resident Evil, Diablo Immortal, Transformers: Dark of the Moon
“ISW creates amazing, creative, and intuitive virtual instruments! I’ve enjoyed using them for over a decade, and they have found their way into many of my music scores. Their wonderfully realistic world instruments showed up in a recent Nexon video game, Shreddage 3 Stratus on the score for Grid, and Super Audio Boy is a favorite for retro sounds, effects, and fun nostalgia. Highly recommended!”
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!”
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!
Gamelan is an ancient artform of Indonesia; it is a musical ensemble most often containing percussive, tuned metallophones with meditative, bell-like tones. The gamelan is among the oldest known instrument ensembles that is still played today, known to be at least 1,200 years old. Each instrument within the ensemble has its own unique design, size, and tuning, resulting in a rich and transcendent sound when played together.
The sound of the gamelan was hugely influential on 20th century Western composers like Satie, Cage, Bartók, Messiaen, and Britten, but can also be heard prominently in acclaimed scores like Akira, Battlestar: Galactica, The Girl with a Pearl Earring, and many others.
Our sampled Javanese Gamelan (as opposed to Balinese, or Sundanese) consists of twelve instruments made from bronze in Indonesia, carefully played and sampled by composer Gonzalo Varela to capture their full clarity and nuance. We have presented them here as an ensemble with standard Western tuning, along with the option for custom microtuning scales, and authentic Pelog and Slendro scales.
Javanese Gamelan lets you customize your own ensemble or play individual instruments in their authentic forms. Whether you’re writing for soundtracks, pop music, atmospheric electronica, or New Age, we think you’ll find it incredibly inspiring — just as we did.
The library includes twelve individual instruments comprising the ensemble: Bonang, Demung, Gambang, Gender, Gongs, Kempul, Kempyang, Kenong, Kethuk, Peking, Saron, and Slenthem. Each has been sampled with fully-sustaining and dampened notes, in 16 dynamic layers, which allows deep playable and responsiveness.
The single instrument patches are presented in two idiomatic tunings – Pelog and Slendro – as well as equal temperament, suitable for traditional Western music. The ensemble builder allows for per-instrument tuning, mixing, effects, and humanization, allowing you to create your own custom blend of tones in whatever note ranges you choose.
You can truly shape the sound of the gamelan with our integrated Console mixer & FX rack, pictured below. In the ensemble patch, each instrument gets its own channel, allowing you to add up to 8 modular effects for each. EQs, compression, reverb, modulation, distortion and many more FX units are available, giving you endless tonal possibilities.
Reviews
Javanese Gamelan – SoundBytes Magazine
“So if you’re interested in the authentic timbres of the metallophones of the Javanese Gamelan, this sample set is definitely for you. And more, if you’re interested in modifying the timbres, mixing them, detuning them, harmonising them in definitely non-traditional manners, and in fact, using the basic traditional timbres as a basis for your own post-post-modern twistings and manglings, then this sample set is also definitely for you…the fact that the set has Impact’s impeccable sound quality ought to be enough to convince anyone with the slightest interest in traditional or extended uses of Javanese Gamelan timbres to leap at the chance of owning this set. If you do, you won’t be disappointed.”
Warren Burt (SoundBytes Magazine)