Ventus Winds Duduk
An ethereal solo woodwind for haunting, expressive performances.
$99
Audio Demos
- Aletheia Andrew Aversa 1:08
- Lost Kingdom Ben Hicks 2:28
- Cultic Cory Pelizzari 1:07
- Mana Sands (Naked) Cory Pelizzari 2:09
- Architect Reborn Nabeel Ansari 0:54
- Sandstone Henning Nugel 2:39
- Tranquil Tremendouz 1:32
Overview
The haunting, mysterious sound of the Armenian duduk, more playable and expressive than ever before, with a mellow tone reminiscent of an oboe. Ideal for cinematic music. Capable of emotional performances as well as nimble grace notes and articulations. Includes 12+ playing techniques as well as over 700 prerecorded phrases! Featuring an improved Kontakt Player compatible version of the Ventus engine with smooth legato playing, poly legato, harmonization, and much more.
Product Info
Over 5,500 24-bit samples
Recorded through warm ribbon & room mics in an intimate studio space with a touch of air.
7 types of sustain articulations with ornaments
Normal, emotive, tongued, bend up-down, bend up, trill sustain, fast trill sustain.
Extended articulations
Staccato & tongued staccato, five release types, and TRUE recorded vibrato.
True legato playing w/ adjustable settings
Play nimble and agile parts or slow, romantic, and emotional lines with true legato and portamento transitions.
700+ phrases of assorted lengths and styles
Arps & Runs, FX, short, medium, and long styles. Play and edit from within the KONTAKT patch or use the included WAV files.
Features
Beautiful unified AGILITY interface
Ornament system for effortless authentic performances
Phrase playback editor
Digital & analog-modeled FX rack
Customizable articulation mapping and triggers
Requirements
5GB disk space
7200 RPM hard drive or solid state drive recommended.
4GB RAM
Higher amounts of memory let you load more instruments.
Kontakt 5.7+ Player
This library is compatible with the free Kontakt Player.
Kontakt Requirements - Mac OS
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
Library Walkthrough (v1.1)
Featured Artists & Composers
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."
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."
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."
Ventus Winds Duduk is the sixth entry into our acclaimed series of deep-sampled woodwinds from all over the world, and showcases an all-new Kontakt Player engine for the first time in the series. This new script allows for even more realistic performances and legato transitions, and adds long-awaited features such as polyphonic playing, harmonies, and scale locking for extra authenticity.
All of this new technology supports a beautiful set of duduk performances: single notes, legatos, ornaments, and phrases. The duduk itself is among the most widely used non-Western woodwinds in cinematic music. It can be heard in classic TV/film scores from Gladiator, Avatar, Battlestar Galactica, and Game of Thrones to video game soundtracks like Civilization, WarCraft, Uncharted, and God of War. Its mellow, haunting tone can be compared to that of an oboe, and with a skilled performer, is capable of very nimble grace notes and articulations.
Console is our mixer and modular effects rack, designed to give you full control over your virtual instrument tone. with 30 effects modules to choose from!
Using Console, you can easily save and load FX chains or presets between projects or even different Console-based products. It also allows you to mix and blend between mic positions.
Ventus Duduk includes TACT, which allows you to customize how all articulations are mapped and triggered! Everyone has their own preferences for how to perform or write for virtual instruments, and with TACT you can create the perfect setup for your DAW.
While Ventus Winds Duduk can be played like any traditional multi-sampled instrument — one note and technique at a time — we’ve also included a Phrases patch with hundreds of categorized performances. These range from short articulations and effects, to arpeggios, emotive melodies, and everything in between.
The included phrase editor allows you to modify the sample start and end times, dynamics, playback speed, and envelope — all in a single interface.
Reviews
Ventus Winds Duduk – Sound on Sound
“Upon loading Ventus Duduk in Kontakt the first impression users may get is that Impact Soundworks have packed quite a bit under the hood of such a modestly priced instrument… In the end we have a beautifully performed and playable duduk virtual instrument, with great customisability at a steal of a price.” (Sound On Sound)