TAQSIM Free is a fully-playable NI Kontakt Middle Eastern instrument featuring select musical instruments and synth sounds used by keyboard players in both live and studio settings for Arabic, Armenian, Balkan, Greek, Persian and Turkish music. It features the ability to alter the quarter tones on the front panel of the instrument.
Features
The sounds included in this library are:
- Accordion
- Duduk
- Garmon
- Frula Flute
- Kanun
- Korg M3 Sax
- Jazz Guitar Lead
- Ney
- Oberheim OB8 Lead
- Rababa
- Roland D50 Piano
- Roland D50 Strings
- Roland SH-2000 Accordion
- Roland SH-2000 Violin
- Sax Lead
- Shvi
- Strings
- Tar
- Yamaha DX7 Flute
System Requirements
- The latest FULL version of Kontakt is required to run this software
Important Notes:
- The latest FULL Version of Kontakt is required in order to use this instrument.
- You will be stuck in DEMO MODE if trying to use this instrument in the FREE Kontakt Player.

Installation
1. Download the Kontakt library from within your Plugin Boutique User Account and double click it to extract the contents > Keep the folder in a memorable place on your computer, such as your 'Documents' folder.
2. Open Kontakt > Click on the 'Files' tab in the top left corner of the plugin.

3. Navigate to the location that you saved your Kontakt Instrument to in step 1.

4. Click and drag any NKI file into the main Kontakt window to load a patch.

Your software is now installed and ready to use.