Scoring with World Instrument Samples 

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Hi Guy, I could not stop smiling while watching this clip. As a Thai person (who is joining the TSE MFA program this month), your coverage of the Thai flute (your pronunciation of “Khluy” was pretty spot on), Thai dulcimer (“Khim”) as well as other instruments from the SEA region was very informative and accurate. Your explanation in regard to the pentatonic scale, which is very distinctive to Gamalan music but is not always as clear in traditional Thai music is accurate (due to how the notes are spreaded with different frequency in a scale compare to the western music). I can also hear “Issan” (Northeastern region of Thailand) dialect in the flute demonstration, especially at the beginning. Linguistically speaking, different region of Thailand has its own distinctive dialect, which, I believe, contributed and gave rise to distinctive musical styles specific to a particular region. Hence, you may hear music compositions that contain different compositional elements despite being played by the same instruments etc. Thank you for sharing this video showcasing another angle of the Thai culture and the SEA region. I have also recently came to realize that you can also speak a little bit of Thai (as evident in one of the YT videos) and was pleasantly surprised and super impressed 🙏

I originally found you channel because I wanted to create some game music. This year I became interested in creating meditation music and you suddenly post this video! Tremendous gratitude❤. You just saved me from searching the internet for many hours. Thank you ☺🙏

Super cool approach from Richard.

Excellent Tutorial! Keep up and well done.

I had the lucky chance to meet Richard Harvey when he was a Gryphon member, and we became friends.

Very helpful! Thanks for posting!

Well done as usual sir. Great walk-thru on World instruments and their application. Inspired me to go listen to these instruments in their authentic settings. Thanks

This is fantastic. I love the sounds and how you described how they work. Thank you for this review.

I have been following your channel for several years. I love that you show the entire creation process, without shame or mistakes.

Fantastic sounds! I love hearing Thai traditional music on traditional instruments. That 7-Equal scale is a real ear-bender, but it works when they do it, somehow.

After watching your video I purchased musical scales of the world. Thanks for the tip. A great reference book and well documented.

As an Indonesian, this library is such a gem. Gonna have to get it sometime! Thank you for the review, Guy!

Awesome video! I love new age-world music! Makes me want to travel across the globe! ✈🌍

Hmm. I loved the music and it was a nice library. I don’t usually go in for non-western instrument libraries because I don’t feel the library format does them justice but that changed my mind. Also, your orchestration course looks awesome. Odd that I hadn’t paid attention to the full ad before. I might check it out too. Thanks Again!

Absolutely loved this video, Guy. I think Ennio Morricone probably wrote the book on how to fuse ethnic instrumentation with a Western sensibility with his beautiful score for the movie 'The Mission' (it is a blissful composition), and ever since I've been fascinated by ethnic instruments played within a Western orchestral context (we used to call this 'Fourth World' music back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth). Other notable composers in this genre include Ryuichi Sakamoto (RIP) and Gabriel Yared (his stunning theme for the film 'The Lover' was without doubt the best thing about that movie). Anyway, enough babbling. Thanks for introducing me to this amazing sound library. A high-quality *SE Asian-specific* sound library is such a rare beast! I'm putting this on my shopping list!

Vey impressive collection, but as a sample library developer who lives in South East Asia, I’m happy to see they still left a few gaps for me to fill in…like the Ty Ba.

When you switched on the lights, the studio looks so cosy

I believe there are micro-tuning plugins that could map musical scales, other that the western 12-tone", to a standard keyboard so that the correct frequencies are actually played instead of approximations,

bravo!

Another excellent video Guy, thank you. I've just bought the book you mentioned 'Musical Scales of the World' for my Kindle. £2.50. Bargain. I'll be writing music using the Kora scales of Western Africa, before you can say 'Guy Mitchelmore is a great teacher!'

Hiiii Guy, one more time, you’ve inspired a way to start from nowhere to somewhere 😊! That was very cool !👍🏼

Love ya Guy!

I hope it warms up for you in the not too distant future, Guy! (It's Summer here). I've often made the physical journey to SE Asia, as my wife comes from there. As I write, beside me on my deck is a bamboo shaker which I picked up in the island of Palawan, that I used on my most recent track.

Very Very Good

Cultural context is really important! Honestly I've been kicking myself for not paying more attention to this in my previous years of music productions .

That's a gorgeous chord progression, can I steal some of it for a trance track? I think I will. Thanks Guy, you're the best 😘 Inspiration Gained.

Print and send it! Love the sunglasses.

29:06 suddenly starts sounding a bit like parts of the catchy Age of Empires 2 soundtrack.

Hi Guy, this is great!!! As someone who studied composition of traditional Korean instruments in South Korea I would say the description to the scales and temperaments can be very tricky. I love what Richard has done. I just wish someone would come up with this for Korean traditional Instruments. They are so many and living in London now means I do not have access to those sounds. I wish the world could hear them. Simply amazing. Just like Ricard said. Thank you for the review.

Very interesting Guy - I'm a fan of 'world' instruments and music from across the planet. My ambition is to combine an English Morris Dance tune with Algerian Rai. Oddly enough I haven't managed it yet 🙂 The Orchestral Tools instruments are always excellent though I am picking them up one at a time through their annual 25 euro voucher. It may take a while. They also have an excellent tutorial series on composition and other aspects of music production - a great companion to your always very engaging videos.

Every time I watch your RU-vid videos or course content (done your trailer course and bootcamp orchestration), I want the libraries that you use! This gets expensive! However, it's how you use them that makes them great. €399 plus tax is not feasible at the moment, so I may just buy one or two of the instruments for now. Also been looking at Pigments and rather keen on that too! My mantra needs to be 'You don't need more libraries, you don't need more libraries'

@ThinkSpaceEduction, Sup Guy and greetings from Sydney Australia. I'm a guy who was diagnosed with ADHD in his early 20s turning 40 this year, I love to make music for fun but I always get stuck in a loop, I find it hard to follow certain videos, but I can create various genres. I'd love to see you produce some Hardstyle music hehe. Btw Happy New Year.

Bello/Magnifico.🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂

'Welcome Princess Leia' 😂 Spat out my coffee hahaaa

This is great. One of the best things about visiting a new country is discovering new instruments. What bugs me about these lovely VST libraries is that I have to spend hours building templates and mapping articulations for Cubase. Why don't more companies supply such things for popular DAW? Surely they have such things for testing, why not just give them away?

Perfect timing. I just bought Jade Ethnic Orchestra by Strezov Sampling. Have you reviewed this Library in the past? Somehow the eastern instruments resonate so much for me. I must have a past life connection or something! lol. Side note: Did you trade-in/retire your MK2? This is the first time I saw the Arturia Keylab on your desk!

where has the Native Instruments S88 MK2 gone?

You can release this on any New Age album...😉

It never really looks like winter where you are. Always green grass, green leaves. 🙂

which headphones do used ? HD600 ?

Sounds like something captain Picard would play on his flute

Wonderful samples. But I think you should be well known for being patient in order to use them.

I looked this library. The very interesting thing is that you can buy seperatly each instrument. I'm living in north-east Thailand beside Lao. The most traditional instrument is the Khao which is very used in much modern songs. The real sound is between harmonica ( bringed by american soldiers delivering Europe in 1944 ) and accordion. I listened this instrument in this library but ther's a problem, it's played with tremolos I never heard in traditional or modern songs of Thailand. Even the price of 30$ isn't expensive, but I have doubts about the real authenticity of its recording. Wasn't it done to be better by using with occidental instruments in occidental scale ? I am not sure. So sorry to this man, I will not get this sound. Flutes or other instruments may be real, but this sampled sound is not as it is used in Lao or Thailand ... 🤔 About other instruments, you can make comparison with many instruments used in 29th november 2002 by indian orchestra playing Ravi Shankar's music in first part of Concert for George ( Harrison). The video is wonderful.

Sometimes it's helpful to change perspective. Am I cooking british if I put vinegar on my french fries and call them chips? Serving mince sauce and porridge? I was often to the UK and had very good food there, but I am not a Brit and therefore my interpretation of the cusine will always be a chlichee unless I spend years and years to get the whole thing. Are Congas Latin percussion instruments? Sure they are! Are the Linn Congas and thier usage in Franke Goes to Hollywoods tunes authentic? Surely not. But stilll i like them. And millions of people danced to it. Is that disrespectful? I don't know. Vinegar and potatos go good together, even if I can't recite Shakespeare. In that sense: Your tune is like potatos with soy sauce. I like it but it's not about "going down a river in Thailand", it is what western people would expect to hear in a BBC documentary about "going down an river in Thailand" ... and there's nothing wrong with that, unless you claim that that tune is "authentic Thai" ... "somwhere nice and warm" as you put it. PS.: Potatos are originally from South America. Cucumbers from the Himalaya. Apples from China. This is indonesian music: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9EXA-dzsn_Q.html

If only I had hundreds of dollars