Ventus Winds Bansuri
An ancient flute of India with divine tone, highly playable with exquisite ornaments.
$99
Audio Demos
- High Tide Christian Yoder 1:34
- Alvida Brad Jerkins 1:32
- Natyashastra Blake Ewing 1:13
- Monsoon Henning Nugel 1:40
- The Mirage Jason Cullimore 3:49
- On the Night's Wind Abel Vegas 1:11
- Shiva Wept Kurt M. Landre 1:49
- Matabhed Ramiro N. Álvarez & Morfi 1:15
- Shiva Wept (Naked) Kurt M. Landre 1:49
Overview
The divine tone of the Indian bansuri. Includes 14 playing techniques, nearly 350 pre-recorded phrases, and bonus drones — 4,500+ samples in total! Create unique, authentic solo performances made even more realistic thanks to a detailed ornament system that automatically adds ornamentation where a real player would.
Product Info
Over 4,500 24-bit samples
Recorded through warm ribbon and room mics in an intimate studio space.
7 types of sustain articulations
Normal, tongued, bend up, ornamented short/long, ornamented staccato and bend. Releases include bend down, bend up, and hard stop.
True legato playing w/ adjustable settings
Play nimble and agile parts or slow, romantic, and emotional lines with true legato transitions.
350+ phrases of multiple lengths and styles
Prerecorded phrases with great variety: arps and runs, longs, mediums, shorts, and unique notes. Play and edit from within the KONTAKT patch or use the included WAV files.
Bonus tambura and sitar drones patch
Play long, sustained notes to create a harmonic bed under your bansuri playing.
Features
Beautiful unified VENTUS interface
Ornament system for effortless authentic performances
Phrase playback editor
Digital & analog-modeled FX rack
Customizable articulation mapping and triggers
Requirements
6GB disk space
7200 RPM hard drive or solid state drive recommended.
2GB RAM
Higher amounts of memory let you load more instruments.
Kontakt 5.5.2+ Full
This library is NOT 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
Featured Artists & Composers
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."
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!"
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The bansuri is an ancient flute indigenous to India, known as the nadi or tunava in some texts. It has a special role in North Indian and Hindustani classical music and is often known as the “divine instrument,” carrying with it the appropriate religious significance. Unlike many ancient flutes, the bansuri is tranverse (side-blown).
We selected the bansuri for the Ventus Series because of its supreme importance in traditional Indian music, and because we loved its haunting, low tone. It is the perfect companion for our Sitar Nation library.
Our bansuri library is performed by Josh Plotner, who captured all key articulations and playing techniques of the instrument: sustains, ornaments, staccatos, legato, portamento, bends, phrases, and much more!
We started the Ventus Winds series to take you on a journey all over the world, capturing the tones of beautifully performed solo woodwinds outside the Western repertoire. Along with that goal, we want you to be able to create authentic performances without technology getting in the way.
Each Ventus instrument shares several key features, along with a common user interface:
1. Traditional playable articulations alongside a large pool of pre-recorded phrases that you can quickly drop into a composition for instant color.
2. An innovative ornaments system designed to automagically createdecorative techniques in real time with no extra sequencing or tweaking needed.
3. The Total Articulation Control Technology (TACT) to unify and simplify the process of creating your own personal mapping setup for every instrument.
With these three features, combined with our hallmark depth of sampling and attention to detail, we hope that our Ventus Winds will become a source of endless inspiration.
Reviews
Ventus Winds Bansuri – Music Nation
“Out of the box, this is one of the most playable and expressive instruments we’ve tested – it just sings right out of the keyboard…This is a very versatile sound, one I think can be used in many styles. Though it’s traditionally an Indian instrument, it sounds right at home on most other tracks I played against…A great sounding and easy to play instrument that would be a frequently used tool in any producers sample library collection.”
The Ninja (Music Nation)
Ventus Winds Bansuri – Sample Library Review
“When I started working with the Bansuri, I immediately took note of the realistic haunting and breathy sound of the sampled Bansuri. This is as authentic a playing experience as you can get unless you play the real thing…The Ventus Bansuri is clearly at home in traditional Indian music but would also be a suitable tool for film scores that call [for] an Indian theme or it could even be used as a voice in ambient and meditational music.”
Brian Brylow (Sample Library Review)
Ventus Winds Bansuri – The Audio Spotlight
“This is a rather refreshing item on Impact Soundworks’ catalogue of instruments and it gives a rather new and fresh approach to ethnic woodwinds. It doesn’t do much, because it is a single specific instrument, but for what it does, it does it in an amazing way. The greatest thing about it is that it is very affordable!”
Nikola Jeremic (The Audio Spotlight)
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.”