Yuke's Augmented Yangtze - Preset Bank

I had the honor of naming the latest from Arturia: Augmented Yangtze! It's been vividly interesting to see the company lay down some foundation here in China and this software is a love letter to precisely the world I've built my career around: combining traditional instruments with synthesizers. Augmented Yangtze combines six different instrument textures with five full synthesizer engines, plus a stack of effects, full modulation capabilities, and all sorts of goodies inside. If you need some presets, feel free to download the ones I've gone and made.

See the Tutorial here!

https://youtu.be/F9rCD60X5CI

Aftertouch Market

• Deep and Dark Aftertouch-driven flute pad.

Bowed Casette Reel

• A rich, deep arpeggio meant to sit beneath a soothing, substantially louder flute soloist. A major 7th chord arp look gives it a very dreamy, hypnotizing repetition.

Butterfly Lovers

• A romantic CP with bowed erhu keeping it company.

Chengdu

• My absolute favorite, a vivid pad strike.

Corn-Flavored Ice Cream

• An arpeggiated percussion sequence.

First Train to Zhujiajiao

• When you need to take a 5:50am train to the outskirts of the city, something's probably up. No matter how beautiful it is outside. A deep and evolving pad, making use of a metro ambience.

Found at the Electronics Market

• An unforgivingly lofi sample player, like the chinese keyboards of the 90's.

Genwozou

• A CP followed by a flute ensemble. Pronounced 'gun woah zoah.' Means, follow me.

Lao Kong's Steel Drum

• A metallic, cinematic hit with ambitiously never-ending accompaniment.

Little Red Music Box

• A plucky little music box sequence.

Make Time for Tea

• A guqin with a warbling sustained synth.

Ravish Pipa

• A stacatto Pluck with quite a resonant accompaniment.

Rockbund

• An all-encompassing sound generator, a beautiful always-rising arpeggio sequence with all sorts of ethereal echoes generated from a Yangqin. Leave the arp on 'hold,' and install it in an art gallery somewhere. Warning- this one's pretty CPU-heavy.

Shanghai Bagels Don't Suck

• A full-spectrum synth ensemble, with a coarse-tuned erhu as bass and a bit of soundscape as texture. A lovely opening few notes for your warm-up.

Watermelons from Guangzhou

• Mellow and delay-driven, a patch for the ages! Great for riffs and overtures.

Which Man Drones

• A sting quartet, driven by a madly droning man who refuses to change notes.