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Hurdy Gurdy
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Does anyone know of an app that reproduces the sound of a Hurdy Gurdy?
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Not specifically a Hurdy Gurdy, but the Roland Sound canvas has accordians and a reed organ, if you played one (or a combination) of those with a bass drone, I think you’d be pretty close.
Hi Phil, thanks. I will give that a try and see how close I can get to it.
Omg I was wondering the same thing!!
I have not had any luck with even finding any hurdy gurdy soundfonts, but have been able to make a passable simulation by layering a harmonium with drones.
Sadly, nothing at all for IOS but plenty for Kontakt if you're interested in the list I dug up a few years ago while searching for the same thing.
Interesting you should go for reeds, since a hurdy gurdy is a string instrument where the strings are bowed by a wheel turned by a crank and the notes are fretted by keys trapping the melody strings against the fingerboard.
Ok I was well off the mark - would a violin be the closest instrument then? I still think it sounds a bit reedy, even if the sound is produced in a completely different way.
I don’t really disagree, there is a reediness, I just thought it was interesting that a reed instrument was the closest analogue to a string instrument.
You really would think that would be the case, but I have never been able to get that weird keening sound of the hurdy gurdy using string emulations. Using reeds such as the harmonium,, I have found it works best in the higher octaves.
I’d guess that the key elements are more upper frequencies creating a scratchiness to the sound due to a combination of fingers not absorbing higher frequencies and the friction device having less ‘give’ than a bow, plus the lack of vibrato making it more like a keyboard instrument such as a harmonium. Additionally, all the mechanical gubbins makes the resonance of the instrument quite different from a violin or viola.
I was hoping this was a Donovan thread
There’s a free VSTi.
http://samcycle.blogspot.com/2016/06/samsara-hurdy-gurdy-free-vsti.html
Make that two...
http://www.soundbytes.de/HurdyGurdy/?index_le
Thanks, I will try them out on the PC. Ideally I'm really looking for it in an app as my recording is done on AuriaPro but this might be the closest I can get. I don't really use desktop and plugins although I do have Ableton Live Lite and Reaper.
Astounding technoid hurdy gurdy ...
@Paul16
Wow. That was awesome.
innit, especially half way in when he (i assume) hits the pedalboard
Fuck yeah !
The Uilleann or Scottish small pipes in Thumbjam might approximate with a bit of work
Incredible. At least we know now why no one has managed to replicate this on iOS.