would be a intresting performance instrument. [H]
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SITAR?
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How about "Dimension Sitar" [Y][:P]
Wait a minute! I just realized somebody dug this up form 2005!
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...It would still be quite nice, though. The only sitar I know of is the Garritan World Instruments one, about which I have not heard brilliant things.
I can't quite see 'ethnic' instruments fitting in with VSL's core market, which seems more classical, but I for one would love it. Whether enough others would to make it commercially viable is a different question.
I always hoped VSL would one day make virtual instruments of rare/period instruments, like the Serpent and the Ophecleide, which are quite hard to get hold of these days. Again, can't see that being a massive seller. Never mind. Sigh...
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VSL continues to surprise me time after time but I think adding an ethnic instruments collection to the VSL palet would be an ambitious undertaking. I mean how many Sitar, Kemenche, or Zhonghu virtuosos are there living in and around Vienna with nothing better to do. Most likely, VSL would have to import the talent from the far reaches of the globe to their silent stage.
Not only that, but they would need experts to advise them on what nuance and subtlety of each ethnic instrument is important enough to sample. One of my biggest complaints with Eastwest's Silk is how they kind of half-assed the Chinese string bowed instruments. They sampled them like western string instruments when, in reality, the playing style is very different; a lot of portamento and note bending of various lengths.
Im not sure if there is enough demand in the market to justify the cost that would have to be endured in order to produce such a product because, afterall, VSL expects nothing less than perfection[:D]