SYNCHRON GAJDICA

Synchron Gajdica - Gajdica in the key of D

The gajdica is an archaic instrument that has been preserved in Lipany, a rural village in the Šariš region of Slovakia. The instrument with only one reed consists of a wooden tube made of hazel, elderberry, cherry, plum or maple with a cow horn attached to the lower end. The instrument has six holes in the top of the tube and a seventh on the back. Originally, the gajdica was used to play short shepherd motifs and shepherd songs from the Šariš region, signals and to accompany the unique shepherd dance.
 
The sound of the Gajdica is penetrating, rich and intense. Due to its playing style with circular breathing and accents on melodic notes, the gajdica resembles a bagpipe with a whistle. A special, very quickly played form of vibrato is to be emphasized, which gives the instrument a unique character.
 
The Gajdica was played by multi-instrumentalist and ethnic instrument expert Veronika Vitazkova, who is also a member of Synchron Stage Orchestra. She regularly plays concerts with various orchestras, such as the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and the Lower Austrian Tonkünstler, toured Europe as a solo flautist with Ennio Morricone, and played at the Salzburg Festival and Hollywood in Vienna.
 
Since she has worked on countless film scores in the Synchron Stage Vienna, she is now very familiar with the large Stage A, whose extraordinary acoustics contribute so significantly to the overall sound of the individual instruments.
 
In order to capture the instrument with this excellent spatial sound in the best possible way, seven separate, phase-coherent microphone arrangements were used. All microphone signals are available separately in the Synchron Player mixer window. A large number of presets offer perfect mixer settings and serve as a starting point for your own sound creations.
 
Below you will find the sampled tones of the basic diatonic scale of the Gajdica. Nevertheless, this software instrument also makes all chromatic intermediate tones available to you. Legatos were chromatically sampled. If you would like your composition to be performed by a gajdica player, please keep in mind that not everything you can play on the keyboard can be used in a live performance.
 

• Gajdica in D - range: c4 - e5 / scale in D major (D, E, F#, G, A, B, C#)

(c4 = middle c)

System Requirements

You can either "soft" activate the software on your computer without addditional hardware or transfer the license to an iLok USB dongle which has to be purchased separately. The iLok dongle can be used to run the protected software on different computers. Your licenses can be easily manged using the iLok Licence Manager. To protect your investment against theft or loss we recommend the iLok Zero Downtime protection with TLC.

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