Maasai. Authentic Kenyan Tribal Music. Africa is the Root to all Music

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2 Maasai Authentic Kenyan Tribal Music 2010 Africa is the Root to all Music

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4 Content - Core samples: 1 instrument patch containing: o Vocals collection (Males, Females, Children and combinations) o Tribe Ensemble performances (instrument & vocals combined) o Instruments (ensembles & groups) o Drums & Percussion - 1 instrument for Kontakt & 5.01 and higher with 3 tab screens - Main View, IR, and a credits tab - Convolution reverb applied to the multi instrument to represent the original acoustic space. 4 impulses available - Landau Music Group clickable IR sphere design knob - Dynamic sample loading & purging for efficient memory usage - Customizable instrument grouping and mapping - build your own patches to suit your needs sampled looped samples. (1,20 GB sample content) -Collection Specifications: - Vocals: (Boys & Girls Choir Umoja, Boys Village Choir, Female Village Choir, Kombe Choir, Maasai Hunting Chant, Maasai Male Singing, Male Village Choir, Shaman Singing, Girls Choir, Zulu Chant) - Tribe Ensembles: Kenyan Village music, Basoa, Hamuna, Lamawase, Momabassa Females, Momabassa Solo, Momabassa wind instruments, Momabassa Sung, Slum Kids Choir, Tribal singing, Weyambolo, Yesawe, Zambewe, Behi Vox and Drums - Drums & Percussion: Drum loops, Shabone No Vox, Swining Conga, Enigma Drum, Drumloop solo, Mombassa, Village Percussion, - Instruments: Horn & Percussion combination, Abu Flute, Kambanane, Kambanane Large, Turkana Horn, Turkana Horn and Drums - Bonus files: Ukelele & Drums with choirs from the Haka library -Sample selector By clicking the sample selector you can browse through the full sample pool without loading new patches. Just click the set you re interested in and Maasai will load all available sub collections. By pressing add you can appoint the sub collection to your preferred location on your keyboard. We ve also build a auto preview when you click the subgroup. (1 sec feature)

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6 Kontakt patch example and detailed explanation Zones - Red Zones: (last added sub collection) - Blue zones: Maasai samples sub collection added - White zones: Empty zones Patch Configuration: Remap function, speed adjustment knob and volume knob to balance the volumes between sub collections. -Sample behavior configuration: Attack, Decay, Sustain and Release knobs. NOTE: These loops are not temposynced, you can change the speed by using the speed knob

7 Landau Music Group clickable IR sphere All NKI patches have reverb applied to them by default. The convolution reverb can be bypassed when the amount is turned down to 0% by clicking on the left side Wet Level and turned down. To keep the your custom setting please resave the patch. Next time when loaded it ll load the custom settings. (Consider renaming to have a backup when needed). Impulse Response selection: by pressing the IR sphere another of the four available rooms is activated. Available IR s -Hut 1: Main African house centered stereo IR -Hut 2: Second African house centered stereo IR -Hut 3: African House centered stereo IR -Jungle: Outside recorded woody Jungle area stereo IR Room Size slider: This compresses or stretches the impulse response in time. Click & drag on the right side of the sphere to adjust the blue level bar. Wet Level: Controls the level of the original and processed signals. 0% = bypass 100% = full signal. Click & drag on the left side of the sphere to adjust the blue level bar. Additional FX: Delay and EQ applied to the whole instrument. So each sub group will be influenced.

8 A note from Russ Landau In the summer of 2001 Survivor, the U.S. television series, produced their third season in Kenya. I traveled there to find the musical heart of that country. Besides the wonderful Maasai, I was introduced to and recorded with many other tribes including the Kikuyu, Kisii, Luhya, Luo, and Samburu. My unending gratitude goes out to the performers who participated in these recordings, my guides who made the introductions and made sure compensation arrived when and where it was supposed to, and to the pilots and drivers I criss crossed Kenya with.