Try and mitigate the moral queasiness i get from appropriating sounds from cultures i am only passingly familiar with also a lot of junk, but that’s part of the appeal with using noncommercial samples. big fan of the one on that page from Andres Cabrera that samples the tiple, an instrument i have only just looked up now while writing this comment but have used on several tunes over the past few years! it’s a colombian instrument from the same linage of the guitar.Īnd at the risk of stating the obvious, a lot of good stuff from around the world can be found at as well. i typically layer them with other sounds in my tunes to try and mitigate the moral queasiness i get from appropriating sounds from cultures i am only passingly familiar with and i guess i have never noticed the weird decay issue or i definitely would have mentioned it! playing with loop points though you should be able to get a natural sounding decay trail, the initial transient is really what gives the gamelan its distinct feel in my really can’t recommend the stuff at the One Laptop Per Child page i linked to above enough, there’s all kinds of weird/great stuff on there for free from everywhere. Wow, somehow i have never noticed that before.
