India is a Kontakt instrument from Native Instruments that offers sampled percussion and melodic instruments from the Indian musical tradition, along with a library of rhythmic cycles and scales for composing in Kontakt.
India is part of Native Instruments' Spotlight Collection and runs inside Kontakt. It is built around sampled instruments from the Indian tradition, playable individually or as a balanced ensemble. The collection pairs these sounds with an onboard groove player for rhythmic cycles and a set of scales that can be mapped to a keyboard, giving producers a way to bring Indian rhythmic and melodic ideas into modern productions.
India's onboard groove player plays rhythmic cycles, known as talas, which are irregular time signatures used in Indian music. You can use these cycles with the instruments in India, or drag and drop the included MIDI files onto any software instrument in your project.
The scales, known as ragas, can be mapped to your keyboard in several ways and adjusted to suit the mood you want. The developer describes the library as built for instant composition.
The Kontakt interface includes a mixer and effects sections for adjusting the level of each instrument and the space around it in your mix. Groove, Feel and Intensity controls change rhythmic precision, depth and dynamics. Snapshots offer quick variations of each instrument's performance.
With a KOMPLETE KONTROL S-Series keyboard, Native Browser lists your presets, Native Map assigns instrument parameters to the display knobs, and Light Guide shows melodic ornamentations and scale notes.
Formats, systems and requirements as listed by Plugin Boutique. Missing details are left out, not guessed.
| Developer | Native Instruments |
|---|---|
| Type | Plugin |
| Category | Kontakt Instrument |
| Requires | Kontakt |
| Formats | Kontakt |
India requires Kontakt. The developer lists the FREE Kontakt 7 Player or the Kontakt 7 full version as necessary to run the instrument.
The download is about 7 GB.
India is available in the Kontakt format.
Yes. The included MIDI files for the rhythmic cycles can be dragged into any software instrument in your production.
REQUIRES KONTAKT
REQUIRES KONTAKT
REQUIRES KONTAKT
REQUIRES KONTAKT
REQUIRES KONTAKT
REQUIRES KONTAKT