The complete Electric Taishogoto — over 20 hardware FX chains and every articulation, in one instrument.

One instrument, 20+ different amplifiers of the same strange little machine. 

The Electric Taishogoto is a virtual instrument based on the traditional Japanese Taishogoto, also known as the Nagoya Harp — recorded from an electric red soprano model made in Japan in the early 1990s. This is an older instrument with its own charming flaws, noise, and mechanical quirks, all of which we embraced rather than polished away. Its DI signal was recorded deeply, then run through a large collection of real analog hardware: overdrive and distortion pedals, guitar preamps, vintage 90s rack FX, a broken 70s tape delay, an 80s reel-to-reel recorder, a Japanese spring reverb and a stack of lo-fi pedals. No software emulations at any point in the chain.

Nothing here is split across separate volumes. Every FX chain and every playing technique sits in one library, rebuilt from the ground up for DecentSampler: over 20 hardware chains, each one its own preset.

DS_Taishogoto_Dreamy

DS_Taishogoto_AnalogKeys

DS_Taishogoto_MildDistortion

DS_Taishogoto_Preamp_Keys

DS_Taishogoto_LofiCrunch

DS_Taishogoto_BrokenTapedelay

DS_Taishogoto_Shimmer

DS_Taishogoto_Shimmer Bow

DS_Taishogoto_TheDrive

DS_Taishogoto_BrokenTapedelayBow

I'm a TV post-production producer with 15 years of experience, based in Munich, Germany. I'm also working as a freelancer, creating sound effect libraries tailored to meet the needs of motion designers, app developers, editors and other creative professionals.

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