Traveler SeriesRomani Folk Fiddle
Traveler Series
Romani Folk Fiddle
Traditional fiddle, recorded in Bulgaria and performed by a renowned violinist.
Traditional fiddle, recorded in Bulgaria and performed by a renowned violinist.
$45
$45
Hear Traveler Series – Romani Folk Fiddle (Kontakt Player) In Action
Hear Traveler Series – Romani Folk Fiddle (Kontakt Player) In Action
- Tristan Noon Slatina Dans 1:15
- The Devil Made Me Dance Reuben Cornell 1:47
- Danube Henning Nugel 1:29
- The Best Binge Michael Sciabbarrasi 1:28
- Honey Suck My Toes Craig Sharmat 1:33
- Fiddlin' Around The Fiddle Firoze & Kaizad Patel 1:28
- Don't Tempt Me Christopher Siu 1:49
- The Old Path Nathan Madsen 1:59
- Hot Blood George Strezov 1:57
- Un Romanzo Lawson Madlener 1:36
- Gypsy Concerto Mitchell Gibbs 1:04
- Omega Class Michael H. Lee 1:05
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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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
- Tristan Noon Slatina Dans 1:15
- The Devil Made Me Dance Reuben Cornell 1:47
- Danube Henning Nugel 1:29
- The Best Binge Michael Sciabbarrasi 1:28
- Honey Suck My Toes Craig Sharmat 1:33
- Fiddlin' Around The Fiddle Firoze & Kaizad Patel 1:28
- Don't Tempt Me Christopher Siu 1:49
- The Old Path Nathan Madsen 1:59
- Hot Blood George Strezov 1:57
- Un Romanzo Lawson Madlener 1:36
- Gypsy Concerto Mitchell Gibbs 1:04
- Omega Class Michael H. Lee 1:05
Overview
Expressive, deep-sampled folk fiddle, recorded on-location in Sofia, Bulgaria, featuring the virtuosity and passion of an acclaimed local violinist. Includes core and extended articulations, traditional ornamentation, and a massive 650 phrases. Personalize your performance style and create authentic music with customizable double stops, adjustable bow attacks, re-bowing options & more.
Expressive, deep-sampled folk fiddle, recorded on-location in Sofia, Bulgaria, featuring the virtuosity and passion of an acclaimed local violinist. Includes core and extended articulations, traditional ornamentation, and a massive 650 phrases. Personalize your performance style and create authentic music with customizable double stops, adjustable bow attacks, re-bowing options & more.
Product Info
Over 10,000 pristine samples
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 customizable double stops, adjustable bow attacks and re-bowing options, and more.
20 standard & extended articulations, 15 traditional ornaments
4 types of sustains, spiccato, pizzicato, tenuo, repetitions, mid-note ornaments, slides, true legato & portamento, multiple types of trills, and more.
Phrase patch with 650+ improvised phrases
Featuring the characteristic techniques of this style of playing. Chain phrases together with articulations for an authentic and natural performance style.
Designed for realism on every level
Every aspect of the library has been carefully, intentionally designed to best capture the unique nature of this style of fiddle playing.
Over 10,000 pristine samples
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 customizable double stops, adjustable bow attacks and re-bowing options, and more.
20 standard & extended articulations, 15 traditional ornaments
4 types of sustains, spiccato, pizzicato, tenuo, repetitions, mid-note ornaments, slides, true legato & portamento, multiple types of trills, and more.
Phrase patch with 650+ improvised phrases
Featuring the characteristic techniques of this style of playing. Chain phrases together with articulations for an authentic and natural performance style.
Designed for realism on every level
Every aspect of the library has been carefully, intentionally designed to best capture the unique nature of this style of fiddle 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
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
5 GB of disk space
7200 RPM hard drive or solid state drive recommended.
8 GB RAM
Higher amounts of memory let you load more instruments.
Kontakt Player 7.10+
This library is compatible with the FREE Kontakt Player.
Kontakt Requirements - Mac OS
Intel Macs (i5 or higher): macOS 11 (Big Sur) or higher.
Apple Silicon Macs (via Rosetta 2 & natively on ARM in Standalone or in hosts that support it): macOS 11 or 12+.
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
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.
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.”
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.”
Matthew Carl Earl
Overwatch 2, Rainbow Six Siege, Call of Duty Mobile, PUBG Mobile, Arknights
“Impact Soundworks creates easy-to-use, great-sounding virtual instruments right out of the box. Highland Harps, Emotional Mallets, and Shreddage 3 are in my daily toolkit.”
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!”
Jimmy Hinson
Black Ops 4, Mass Effect 2, There Came An Echo, Borderlands 2
“Between Shreddage, Super Audio Cart, Juggernaut, and Mega Brass I don’t remember the last time I haven’t used an Impact Soundworks instrument in a track. The attention to detail is astonishing and it’s all so easy to use out of the box, which is a big deal.”
Lena Raine
Celeste, Chicory, Minecraft, Guild Wars 2, Deltarune
Instruments from ISW are a staple of my soundtrack work for games. Vocalisa has been a mainstay vocal aesthetic of nearly every game I’ve worked on including Celeste & Chicory: A Colorful Tale. Shreddage 3 has also given me the confidence to write some really fun guitar riffs & solos despite not being able to play a real one. I’ve started incorporating Tokyo Scoring Strings into the acoustic side of my scoring work, and can’t wait to try out more from ISW in the future!
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!”
Christopher Gordon
Ladies in Black, Mao’s Last Dancer, Salem’s Lot, Master and Commander
“Impact Soundworks’ range of guitars and fretted instruments sound amazing and are crafted and nuanced with expert detail. Intuitively set up to get straight to composing. And I have a real soft spot for the juicy, screaming Shreddage 3 Hydra!”
Mike Gonsolin
(Snoop Dogg, T-Pain, Playboi Carti, Migos)
“Impact Soundworks’ libraries are truly in a league of their own. I’ve been a long time user for as long as I can remember and it would take me a whole other producing lifetime to build the depths of these libraries on my own. As a Kontakt enthusiast who owns just about every library out there I can confidently say that Impact Soundworks’ libraries stand in the top 1%, and that’s saying something! No snake oil here. Just meticulously assembled libraries that are overflowing with creative sound design options and inspiration igniting presets.”
Mike Gonsolin (Mike G)
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!
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.”
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.”
ShadyCicada
“Impact Soundworks software is an absolute mainstay in my work when it comes to Video Game and Anime-inspired tracks! The amount of ease and wonderful sounds these plugins offer allows me to get straight into writing and brainstorming.”
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!”
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!”
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.”
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.”
Lena Raine
Celeste, Chicory, Minecraft, Guild Wars 2, Deltarune
Instruments from ISW are a staple of my soundtrack work for games. Vocalisa has been a mainstay vocal aesthetic of nearly every game I’ve worked on including Celeste & Chicory: A Colorful Tale. Shreddage 3 has also given me the confidence to write some really fun guitar riffs & solos despite not being able to play a real one. I’ve started incorporating Tokyo Scoring Strings into the acoustic side of my scoring work, and can’t wait to try out more from ISW in the future!
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.”
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!”
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.”
Matthew Carl Earl
Overwatch 2, Rainbow Six Siege, Call of Duty Mobile, PUBG Mobile, Arknights
“Impact Soundworks creates easy-to-use, great-sounding virtual instruments right out of the box. Highland Harps, Emotional Mallets, and Shreddage 3 are in my daily toolkit.”
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.”
Jimmy Hinson
Black Ops 4, Mass Effect 2, There Came An Echo, Borderlands 2
“Between Shreddage, Super Audio Cart, Juggernaut, and Mega Brass I don’t remember the last time I haven’t used an Impact Soundworks instrument in a track. The attention to detail is astonishing and it’s all so easy to use out of the box, which is a big deal.”
ShadyCicada
“Impact Soundworks software is an absolute mainstay in my work when it comes to Video Game and Anime-inspired tracks! The amount of ease and wonderful sounds these plugins offer allows me to get straight into writing and brainstorming.”
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!”
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.
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!
Mike Gonsolin
(Snoop Dogg, T-Pain, Playboi Carti, Migos)
“Impact Soundworks’ libraries are truly in a league of their own. I’ve been a long time user for as long as I can remember and it would take me a whole other producing lifetime to build the depths of these libraries on my own. As a Kontakt enthusiast who owns just about every library out there I can confidently say that Impact Soundworks’ libraries stand in the top 1%, and that’s saying something! No snake oil here. Just meticulously assembled libraries that are overflowing with creative sound design options and inspiration igniting presets.”
Mike Gonsolin (Mike G)
Christopher Gordon
Ladies in Black, Mao’s Last Dancer, Salem’s Lot, Master and Commander
“Impact Soundworks’ range of guitars and fretted instruments sound amazing and are crafted and nuanced with expert detail. Intuitively set up to get straight to composing. And I have a real soft spot for the juicy, screaming Shreddage 3 Hydra!”
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.
Romani Folk Fiddle was created with that authenticity in mind, to best capture this expressive, energetic style of performance. Every aspect of the library has been thoughtfully designed to enable you to craft realistic fiddle tracks utilizing the signature flair and virtuosity of fiddle players from this tradition.
Recorded on-location in Sofia, Bulgaria in stereo with an emphasis on authenticity, from the performer to the studio.
Renowned violinist Stoimen Peev is a member of the elite Sofia Soloists and Sofia Quartet ensembles as well as the Sofia Session Orchestra & Choir. He has performed classical and traditional Bulgarian music all over the world, and his playing reflects the high level of skill and dramatic expression that characterizes this fiddling style. The lively sessions were superbly directed by co-producer George Strezov and engineer Ivan Boshev at “The Bakery” studios on-site in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Write your own intricate fiddle parts, or choose from the included 600+ improvised phrases. Either route you take, Romani Folk Fiddle showcases the signature techniques that are characteristic of this style of playing: arpeggios, chromatic runs, harmonics, pizzicato, exaggerated vibrato and extreme ornamentation. You can chain phrases together with articulations for an authentic and natural performance style, or humanize the parts you write from scratch with customizable double stops, adjustable bow attacks and re-bowing options.
CORE & EXTENDED ARTICULATIONS
- Sustain
- Sustain – Prog Vib
- Sustain – Accented
- Legato
- Portamento
- Trill (minor, major)
- Spiccato
- Pizzicato
- Romani Sustain
- Romani Trill (minor, major)
- Romani Tenuto
- 8th Rep.
- 16th Rep. (normal, 2x)
- 16th Rep. Spiccato (normal, 2x)
- Bartok Pizzicato
- Sforzando (2 lengths)
- Decrescendo
ORNAMENTS
- Horse (2 variations)
- Ghost (up & down)
- Passion
- Slide Up (minor, major, long)
- Flourish (2 variations)
- Czardas
- Pull Off
- Hammer On
- Triplet
- Crescendo Release
PHRASES & FX
- FX – Percussive
- FX – Chops
- FX – Fiddler Whistles
- FX – Fiddler Shouts
- FX – String Noise
- FX – Scrapes
- Energetic Improvs
- Lyrical Improvs
- Polyphonic Improvs
- Romani Improvs
- Runs & Arpeggios
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.”
Traveler Series: Gypsy Fiddle – Sample Library Review
“The sampling and timbre is absolutely top notch. Every single nuance has been captured and you can get some outstanding results.”
Pete Checkley (Sample Library Review)
Traveler Series: Gypsy Fiddle – BenoniStudio
“This is not just for classical fiddle styles and you can really use this fiddle with any genre at all. Red Room Audio have really done a good job capturing the true feeling and sound of a fiddle, which is not easy to do.”