User Manual
137A User’s Guide to Garritan World Instruments
THE STRING INSTRUMENTS
ARIA name: Description:
Controls:
China
Yueqin
e Yueqin is also known as the Chinese moon
lute and dates back over 2,000 years. “Yue”
means “the moon” in Chinese. It is a fretted
string instrument with a circular body, short neck
and four metal strings played with a plectrum.
• Range: C3 – G6
Vel (attack), MW
(vol/eq), Sus, Lgth,
VAR1, VAR2, FiltLv,
FiltFq, VibSpd,
VibAmt, Keyswitches
(includes mutes)
THE STRING INSTRUMENTS
ARIA name: Description:
Controls:
India
Electric
Sitar
e Electric Sitar is an electric instrument
designed to mimic the sound of the traditional
Indian sitar. e instrument has six playing
strings and additional sympathetic strings that
are amplied with electric pickups.
• Range: C2 – C7 (drone C2-B2)
Vel (attack), MW
(vol/eq), Sus, Lgth,
VAR1, VAR2, FiltLv,
FiltFq, VibSpd,
VibAmt, Keyswitches
Sarangi e Sarangi is a bowed, boxy, short-necked
ddle from the Indian subcontinent. e
instrument is roughly rectangular in shape and
is about two feet long. It has three or four main
playing strings that are played with a bow, and
a number of metal strings (several dozen) that
resonate sympathetically. e instrument has no
frets or ngerboard and notes are determined
by sliding the ngernail against the string rather
than pressing it against a ngerboard.
• Range: C2 – C6 – Single notes plus the
resonating sympathetic string.
Vel (attack), MW
(vol/eq), Sus, Lgth,
VAR1, VAR2, FiltLv,
FiltFq, VibSpd,
VibAmt, Keyswitches
Sarangi
Drone
e sympathetic resonating string for the Sarangi.
• Range: C2 – C6
Vel (attack), MW
(vol/eq), Sus, Lgth,
VAR1, VAR2, FiltLv,
FiltFq, VibSpd,
VibAmt, Keyswitches