Ventus Winds Pan Flutes
Two expressive, versatile flutes with distinct ranges and highly playable ornaments.
$99
Audio Demos
- Legendary Andreas Gajewski 2:16
- Mountain Run Adi Goldstein 0:56
- Tiahuanaco Henning Nugel 2:04
- The Temple Door Opens Christian Yoder 1:23
- First Encounter (Dressed) Pixelee 2:21
- A Place of Calm Chris Porter 0:59
- Immersion Brad Jerkins 1:17
- First Encounter (Naked) Pixelee 2:21
Overview
Two instruments in one: the versatile nai pan flute, and the powerful toyo bass pan flute! Includes 15+ playing techniques per instrument and over 650 pre-recorded phrases. 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
Two distinct pan flutes included
Two unique pan flutes included with distinct ranges: the powerful, bassy toyo and the versatile romanian nai.
Over 6,000 24-bit samples
Recorded through warm ribbon and room mics in an intimate studio space.
Extensive articulations and ornaments
Normal, tongued, accented, flutter, and bend-up sustains (multiple variations for nai); three staccato types, true legato, FX sounds, three release types.
True legato playing w/ adjustable settings
Play nimble and agile parts or slow, romantic, and emotional lines with true legato transitions.
600+ 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.
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.
4GB 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
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."
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!
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!
Pan flutes (or pan pipes) are instruments that developed independently all over the world, featuring tuned pipes or tubes created from various kinds of wood or reed. For our library, we sampled the versatile Romanian nai, whose beautiful and breathy tone is instantly recognizable from countless film scores and albums. The nai offers a fairly large pitch range compared to many pan flutes, making it ideal as both a melodic and accompanying instrument for many styles.
We paired this instrument with a pan flute from an entirely different region — the powerful, bassy toyo, originating in the Andean Peru and Bolivia. So large is the toyo that it was traditionally played by two people. The toyo belongs to a greater family of pan flutes known as siku, which in turn gives its name to the musical genre known as sikuri.
These two flutes were a perfect fit for the Ventus series. Their bright, breathy tones can easily be used for soft and ambient music, but they are also capable of extremely bright and agile playing as well with sharp staccatos, pops, and tongued notes. The majesty of pan flutes is particularly suited for music evoking nature, wind, sky, and sea.
Our pan flute 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) system 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 Pan Flutes – gearspace.com
“Ventus Ethnic Winds Pan Flutes sounds spectacular and is the perfect tool when pan flute instruments are required, it’s perfect for inclusion in orchestral scores and other projects…This collection has all the articulations and phrases to keep your workflow moving along. Highly recommended for musicians, producers, and sound designers who are looking to incorporate lively pan flutes into their compositions.” (5/5)
Synth Guru (gearspace.com)
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.”