SampleScience has released a new virtual instrument featuring the Suiko VS-1, a digital synthesizer that reproduces the sound of traditional Japanese instruments.

It features eight voices: Bell, Choir, Flute, Horn, Mystery, Shamisen, Strings, and Violin. The synthesizer is designed partly as a tool for learning koto scales and also to soundtrack shigin, which are poetry performances.

Virtual Suiko has all the original 8 sounds of the instrument plus 4 effects, a multi-LFO, highpass/lowpass filter and more!

Available for Windows and Mac (VST/VST3, AU), Virtual Suiko is a “pay what you like” download, including free.

More information: SampleScience / Virtual Suiko