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QUANTUM LEAP SILK VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT
Instruments, Articulations, and Keyswitches
The full name of this library is “Quantum Leap Silk: Masters of the Silk Road.” This
collection selects characteristic sounds from the length of this fabled trade route across
southern Asia. China, India and multiple parts of the old Persian Empire are all included.
To help you create authentic-sounding and realistic phrasing, many of the Quantum Leap
Silk instruments include features such as:
• legato interval sampling
• recorded “performance” phrases that you can incorporate in your work or use as a
model to learn traditional uses of the instruments
These features, along with the ability to microtune instruments to non-Western scales,
make Quantum Leap Silk a natural way to achieve the correct sound for projects that
require the authentic sounds of Asia.
This chapter provides tables that lists each instrument in the Silk library. You might want
to print out the pages containing these tables as a reference.
Organization of the QL Silk Instruments
The instruments within this library are organized in a consistent hierarchy of folders and
subfolders. At the highest level, the instruments are divided into different regions within
Asia:
• China
• India
• Persian Empire
Within each of those folders are listed the instruments native to that region.
Each instrument’s folder usually contains 3 subfolders that categorize the articulations,
as shown in the Browser image above:
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