Traveler Series
Bluegrass Fiddle
Authentic, lively American fiddle recorded in the heart of bluegrass country.
$89
Audio Demos
- Moonshine in Kentucky Brad Jenkins 0:44
- Flat Gap Shuffle Dickie Chapin 0:59
- Swingin' Fiddle Christopher Siu 1:09
- Mississippi Ranch Mahmoud Altaf 1:22
- Painted Hillside Nabeel Ansari 0:44
- Fiddle Me This Timothy Cox 0:55
Overview
A deep-sampled fiddle recorded on-site in Kentucky, Bluegrass Fiddle captures the unique characteristics of this traditional style of playing. Write bold, realistic bluegrass tracks with over 25 standard articulations and traditional ornaments, plus phrases & FX, customizable double stops, adjustable bow attacks, re-bowing options and more.
Product Info
Pristine studio recordings from a Grammy-nominated artist
Recorded with an emphasis on authenticity, from the performer to the studio. Minimal built-in reverb makes it ideal for blending into any mix or adding your own reverb.
Perform and write expressive solo parts
Create truly authentic, lifelike performances using techniques such as customizable double stops, adjustable bow attacks and re-bowing options, and more.
20 standard & extended articulations, 14 traditional ornaments
Multiple types of sustains, repetitions, ornaments, true legato (fingered & bowed), tenuto, staccato, pizzicato, mid-note ornaments, and more.
Phrase patch with 400+ performances
Phrases feature the rule-defying signature elements of bluegrass playing, including bold, bluesy improvisation, off-beat “chopping,” sophisticated use of double stops and old-time bowing patterns, and sliding into notes.
Designed for realism on every level
Every aspect of the library has been carefully, intentionally designed to best capture the energy and originality of bluegrass playing.
Features
Beautiful and feature-packed high-res UI
Per-articulation tweaking and editing
Automatically set ornament intervals with Scale Lock
Trigger and map any articulation any way you want
8 FX inserts and 25+ included FX modules
Requirements
2gb of disk space
7200 RPM hard drive or solid state drive recommended.
4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended)
Higher amounts of memory let you load more instruments.
Kontakt 5.8.1+ Full Version
This library requires the FULL version of Kontakt (not the free Kontakt Player.)
Kontakt Requirements - Mac OS
Intel Macs (i5 or higher): macOS 12 or higher
Apple Silicon Macs (via Rosetta 2 & natively on ARM in Standalone or in hosts that support it): macOS 11, 12 or 13 (latest update).
Kontakt Requirements - Windows
Windows: Windows 10 or 11 (latest Service Pack), Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU, 4 GB RAM. Graphics hardware support for OpenGL 2.1 or higher.
Tutorials
Instrument Walkthrough
Featured Artists & Composers
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."
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.
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."
The Traveler Series, originally created by Red Room Audio, was created to authentically capture instruments from around the world, and the cultures they live in, by tapping into the most talented artists on location and recording their iconic performance styles.
Bluegrass Fiddle was designed to capture what makes bluegrass playing unique: a distinctive American style characterized by bold, bluesy improvisation, off-beat “chopping,” and sophisticated use of double stops and old-time bowing patterns. Notes are often slid into, a technique seldom used in Celtic styles.
Bluegrass fiddlers tend to ignore the rules that violinists follow: they hold the fiddle the “wrong” way and often don’t use the chin & shoulder rests. This sample library likewise focuses on the performance and personal expression rather than being hung up on traditional rules.
Creating Bluegrass Fiddle meant journeying right to the heart of the Bluegrass State – Clay City, Kentucky – to the private studio of one of the most renowned names in Bluegrass music, Rickey Wasson, to record the performance of a true bluegrass fiddle legend, multi-instrumentalist & Grammy-nominated artist Ronnie Stewart. Ronnie has appeared on hundreds of records and toured with some of the genre’s biggest names.
STANDARD ARTICULATIONS
- Reel Sustain
- Air Sustain
- Bowed Legato
- Fingered Legato
- Tenuto
- Spiccato
- Pizzicato
- Strummed Pizzicato
- 8th Repetition Shorts
- 8th Repetitions (tempo synced)
- 16th Repetitions (tempo synced)
- Crescendo (short & long, tempo synced)
ORNAMENTS
- Bend Up Fast (HT, WT)
- Bend Up Slow (HT, WT)
- Bend Down Fast (HT, WT)
- Bend Down Slow (HT, WT)
- Bend Turn
- Turn (HT, WT, Min3, Maj3)
- Unisons
- Fall Release
PHRASES & FX
- FX – Percussive
- FX – Fret Noise
- Bend Up Unisons (HT & WT, Fast & Slow)
- Intros
- Chops Rhythms (tempo synced)
- Rhythms (tempo synced)
- Various Phrases
Reviews
Traveler Series – Professionalcomposers.com
“If you want a true and authentic sound of traditional instruments, played on location by experienced players, in order to record the very root, heart and history of the sound the Traveler Series by Red Room Audio will feel like a blessing to you. They sound amazing, playability is wonderful, and the workflow and design really sparked my inspiration.”