Indian Sample Pack 2022 - Saraswati Veena (A Sample Library featuring Spatial Sound) by Girish Patro

History :

Saraswati Veena is an Indian plucked instrument. There are 4 types of Veena Instruments considered by scholars now-a-days and they are the Tanjavur (Saraswati) Veena, Rudra Veena, Vichitra Veena, and Gottuvadhyam (Chitra) Veena. While the Saraswati veena is considered in the Lute genealogy, other North Indian Veenas such as the Rudra Veena and Vichitra Veena are technically Zithers.

The Veena has a recorded history that dates back to the approximately 1700 BCE.

About Saraswati Veena Instrument :

Basically, it is mostly used in Carnatic Music, a form of South Indian Classical Music. The current form of the Saraswati Veena with 24 fixed frets evolved in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, during the reign of Raghunatha Nayak and it is for this reason sometimes called the Tanjore Veena or the Raghunatha Veena.The Saraswati Veena contains 4 lead strings to play the solo lead part of the music and 3 drone strings played to provide the tempo informations.

Pitampura in East Godavari District and Bobbili in Vijayanagara District of Andhra Pradesh State in India is famous for Veena makers.

Audio Production :

The Author / Samplist Girish Patro recorded Saraswati Veena played by Ch. Ramakrishna who is an Ophthalmologist by profession and one of the students of my father Late Gosto Chandra Patro (passed away on 12-02-2022), who used to learn Carnatic Music (a South Indian Classic Music) on Veena Instrument. Since 2006, I used to accompany him on Tabla (an Indian Percussion Instrument) in many Katcheris (an assembly of musicians and audience in the context of Carnatic Music).

For Sound Recording, the author/samplist has used Shure SM7B and Audix OM2 moving coil microphones. Though it is an indoor recording setup, he took off the windshield of Shure SM7B and also took off the grill of Audix OM2. he has used Apollo Twin MKII Duo manufactured by Universal Audio. The whole audio production is completed using Logic Pro X and Mixbus 5 Digital Audio Workstations. he has completed the audio signal processing by taking advantage of emulated plugins manufactured by Universal Audio and Harrison Consoles. he has also done audio post-production of the recorded audio samples.

His grandfather Late Bhakta bachhala Patro, was a Veena Artist (Vainika) at All India Radio situated at Cuttack town in Odisha State of India. We have two of his Saraswati Veenas with a better maintenance. Please note that Indian Musicians really care for their respective musical instruments.

His father Late Gosto Chandra Patro (passed away on 12-02-2022) was popular among the students for training Carnatic Music on Vocals, Veena, Bansuri, Harmonium. He was a Music Therapist and an Ayurvedic Doctor. He also did business in trading the musical instruments such as Veena, Bansuri (Indian Origin of Flute) and Harmonium.

In the “Saraswati Veena Spatial” EXS24 Instrument Package, he has included

1. the instruments “Saraswati Veena Spatial” and “Saraswati Veena Pad” and their Channel Strip Settings

2. a TEST project ready to play and demo your music on Saraswati Veena

3. a Logic Pro X demo project named as “Morning Inspiration” that make you understand the Playing Techniques and Spatial Mix of Saraswati Veena

4. Impulse Response Audio Sample collections and Space Designer presets for the included impulse response audio sample collections

About the Author :

The Author, Girish Patro, is an accomplished Sound Engineer and a well known Trainer in Sound Engineering and Music Production.

He also worked as a Sound Engineer Assistant for Mrs.Sona Mohapatra (Singer) and Mr. Ram Sampath (Record Producer) at Omgrown Music Studio (Mumbai) who provide Music Production services to Ad Agencies and Film Production Companies. His work and workflow of each assigned task are appreciated by Music Performers and Record Producers.

He has trained many more sound engineers, music performers, music educators at “Sound Engineering Academy” (Trivandrum), “Centurion University” (Bhubaneswar) and “Mumbai Audio & Music Academy” (Lucknow), who are currently working at the Music Industry in India and abroad and published books about Sound Engineering, Music Production and Music Business.

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