Embertone 公司推出了一款巴乌音源,与世界知名的长笛演奏大师 William Arnold 合作,通过精密的采样将这款云南传统乐器变成了简单、直观且更加适合演奏和创作的 Kontakt 音源。
巴乌,属竹管铜簧乐器,簧为舌形。是彝族、哈尼族、傣族、佤族、布朗族、苗族等族吹奏乐器。当地彝语叫“及菲里莫”,哈尼语叫“梅巴”。巴乌是流行在中国西南地区彝、苗、哈尼等族的单簧吹管乐器,巴乌用竹管制成,有七个指孔(前六后一),在吹口处置一尖舌形铜制簧片,演奏时横吹上端,振动簧片发声。巴乌音量较小,但音色柔美,西南地区的人们称它为会说话的乐器。
得益于于 Embertone 找来了 William Arnold Collection,在这位世界级演奏大师的演奏下,音乐创作者们才能够把这款表现力极高的乐器自如的用在各种类型的音乐创作当中。Embertone 采用了最新的制作和录音技术,使得巴乌的各种演奏形式能够真实的记录下来。直观的操作界面加上一些必要的设置参数,相信每个人都能找到这款音源的使用方式,甚至还可以通过弯音轮和表情踏板来增加声音的动态。
Embertone has announced Shan Bawu, a Kontakt instrument library featuring the sounds of world flutist William Arnold recorded playing the Bawu. The Bawu is a flute-shaped free reed instrument with a pure clarinet-like timbre that (most likely) originated in the Yunnan province of southwest China.
While it is shaped like a flute, the Bawu is a free reed instrument. It has a pure clarinet-like timbre, and players often incorporate the use of ornamentation — bending tones in particular. It is most likely that the Bawu originated in the Yunnan province of southwest China, but it has since become a standard instrument throughout. It is typically featured as a solo instrument in modern Chinese compositions for traditional ensembles and film scores alike. Although the Bawu is still predominantly performed in China, it has been embraced by many European composers and performers in recent years.
Yet now — thanks to Embertone’s collaboration with world flutist, vocalists, and session musician extraordinaire William Arnold on The William Arnold Collection namesake series debut virtual wind instrument, Shān Bawu — many more performers and composers can acquaint themselves and their music with a highly-expressive virtual instrument, featuring multiple transition styles, such as slur, slide, ornamental, and MICROPHRASE. Moreover, Shān Bawu is Embertone’s first virtual instrument incorporating the trailblazing latter transition technology — four variations of beautiful, elaborate phrases created by William Arnold himself. Indeed, it is features like this that transport Shān Bawu to a whole new level of realism and colour as a simple, inspiring, and highly-playable virtual instrument… right out of the box!
Built from the ground up with William’s musical approach perfected — performances and articulations to match his unique and beautiful style, together with lots of helpful configuration settings to match the user’s playing style — such as using the mod wheel for vibrato and an expression pedal for dynamics, Shān Bawu’s beautiful combination is sure to appeal to those seeking to take an unforgettable musical journey into the wonderful world of traditional Chinese wind instrumentation — including an ability to assign a CC2 breath controller for added realism when playing.