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American jazz and soul legend George Duke
recorded more than 500 ready to go loops exclusively for Native Instruments.
George Duke Soul Treasures is really a treasure for instant jazz/soul
inspiration for the music producers looking for easy to use jazz/soul musical
phrases without the need of digging for samples through crates of dusty vinyl. 
Creators of legendary music recording
software, sound engineers from Native Instruments turned George Duke’s
jazz/soul musical phrases into perfectly sliced and tempo-synced software that
lets musicians easily re-arrange all the slices of phrases to create countless
variations of jazz/soul melodies. All the phrases included in the software have
harmonic basis, you can fit it to any harmony just by one touch on your keyboard.
This means that George Duke Soul Treasures does not require advanced
musicianship.
George
Duke and his personal sound engineer Erik Zobler using highly sought-after
vintage equipment recorded jazz/soul phrases on acoustic, Wurlitzer, Rhodes and
Clavinet pianos. Each of the musical phrases are available in two versions –
clean and “Tubes & Tapes.” Sound
engineers managed to add warm, authentic, reach flavor to the recorded musical
phrases using various analog outboard gear, requisite audio tube optical
limiter and Ampex analog tape during the recording process.
George Duke Soul Treasures lets musicians
easily re-arrange loops they like to create countless versions of jazz and soul
musical phrases. This is achieved thanks to phrases being divided into several
slices that can be triggered from any point in the loop individually. Waveform
Display allows you adjust tune, volume, attack and other sound parameters while
playing. George Duke Soul Treasures also accepts “drag and drop” MIDI files.
This gives musicians even more flexibility when working with their music
recording software.
The software comes with eight different
filter types and sound effects like reverb and delay. All these effects are
triggerable via MIDI keyboard. So you have a huge ready to use sonic palette in
front of you.
George Duke is a legendary jazz and soul
musician. His career starting from 60s, with George Duke Trio, has been rich,
illustrious and successful one. George Duke has won five Grammy Awards.
Recently he works on his new project together with Jill Scott. George Duke can
be easily distinguished from other musicians for his unique funky style that,
beside his own rich discography, can be heard on records by such legends as
Billy Cobham, Jean-Luc Ponty, Frank Zappa and “Cannonball” Adderley.
