i love watching these videos, thinking that's a cool instrument and hearing my bank account scream in the distance

So great you made that video! I used to play 3-string domra-alto (1 octave lower) for ten years being teenager, I was playing in non-proffesional Orchestra called "Souvenir", and it brings me joy knowing that this great instrument is known all around the world!

As a programmer with musical aspirations I find you and your work deeply inspirational. Thank you for sharing all that you do!

I'm Craigus Barry a composer based in the midlands uk, and I'm a paying Patreon member since early last year. Your packs have been on my film scores since 2021ish, in-fact my last two - Pocket Film Of Superstitions (2023), and I Curse This Land (2024) have used your most recent Patreon packs exclusively

When i was little, my guitar tutor in music school also specialized in playing the domra, i remember always being absolutely fascinated by how fast she could play it, even more so when 3 to 6 players would all strum incredibly fast AND IN SYNC

As one of the few people into programming and music, I'd love a needlessly nerdy dive into programming a music lib.

Lovely to see the Domra get some love, often overshadowed by the whackier Balalaika :))

This channel is seriously at the intersection of all the things that delight me. Calm and soothing videos with great storytelling, physical / analog instruments and recordings, restoration and preservation, learning about world cultures and finding a new respect for them, software / coding and sharing with a community. You are one cool dude, and I love these videos!

Your plugin has helped me make so many tunes. And this is another great addition!

After watching Doctor Zhivago, I wanted to get a balalaika for so long. Looking up the instrument I came across the domra and it also looked really interesting. I also came across a balalaika player called Aleksey Arkhipovsky and he is amazing. For some pieces he uses a delay and it sounds very similar to what you did with the sampler. I'll be glad to add this one to the library. Thank you so much!

Absolutely phenomenal video, David. I love your style, as always. But, the fact you were inspired by your musical/cultural exploration to create more functionality in decent sampler is even more amazing! I am really happy to see you doing so well on KZfaq too!

I played in a band for years where the two main instruments were the Domra and Balalaika.

Your cliftili video was the video that finally introduced me to microtones, as a amateur producer then, (though still am), i had always wanted notes slightly sharper or flatter- I assume then what i noticed were the off-tune minor and major thirds, and ever since then I have been fascinated by the math of music- that video finally brought me to learning music theory in the mathy eyes of a microtonslist, an appreciation of many psychoacoustics properties, to enjoy new harmonics past the 3-prime we have. If i didn't see that video I don't know how long id miss this part of me in music, and the friends i made along the way- the Xenharmonic community it my internet family, thank you for leading me to them

I loved the handwritten note you casually left by the keyboard during the coding montage! Cool instrument, thanks for the DS sample libraries.

Finally! A video on this amazing instrument!

Glad I found your channel a couple months ago. It's a treat whenever you upload a video! Always love learning about new instruments from various parts of the world.

Hi! Love your videos! I am from Odesa, Ukraine, and I haven't been home in a while, and this video brought great joy to me, since I used to pass the building of the factory you mentioned every day. I'm glad it found it's way to you, haha. Peace!

Yay! Ukraine mentioned not in a war context 😊

I’ve been to Kazakhstan, and I have a Dombra. I love the sounds it has :)

I started learning guitar and found your vids through looking for guitar maintenance videos. I love every video so much and I feel encouraged to learn guitar and music even more knowing that I could then apply that knowledge and start a new instument like the cool stuff you find.

Your videos are really engaging. I always enjoy them. Decent sampler is becoming more and more powerful. I loved the facility you added in the Kifteli video to enable alternative pitch intervals. And bringing in the functionality to enable fractions of bpm length echos is a delight. Big thanks ! :)

Love your ear for musical composition. And love that you create sample libraries for each instrument you find/fix/play/record.

Your stuff constantly inspires me. Thank you so much for releasing this video and for doing all the work you do!

Thank you so much for this video! I played the Domra when I was in musical school in my teenage years. It was truly a delightful and unforgettable experience. I glad that more people now recognize that instrument.

Deepest respect for your devotion

Looks so cool! Excited to see how it sounds in this video

Hey, love the video. I may have to add some info about these types of instruments. Dutar means an instrument with two strings which one plays the melody and the other adds harmony. Tanbour or Tembour means an instrument with a hollow, pear-shaped body and a long neck, which in most examples, there isn't too much of a difference between the two. I grew up in Iran and being around its traditional music, you see many different versions of this type of instrument based on the region, city, culture, language, race or even kinds of trees that are meant to build these instruments from. Among the Kurmanjs, turks, balouchs, and especially kurds, this instrument is being played and it is sacred to its culture and people. The first versions of tanbour goes back to ancient Persia, which you can find evidence in myths and historical texts. The way you build and play each one is different based on its region, and the tuning or the notes are different in each tanbour or dutar. Some of them use microtonal frets. If you look through Kurdish tanbour, Khorasani dutar, or Azari ghupuz, you'll see that they are usually played among traditional singing and sometimes in groups. Hope this information helps. Keep up the great content❤

Again David's generosity with his time and skill and creativity should be celebrated. As should his diligence and intellectual curiosity. Terrific stuff.

When I was in school, I played domra in a russian folk orchestra. It was so cool, I really miss it now that I'm adult and only play at home 😅 The coolest was probably when we played Kiss-"I was made for loving you". I still unintentionally play it whenever I get any instrument into my hands because the melody is really catchy xD

Another amazing video, always a good day when I see your videos in my subscription box :)

Thumbs up to this new sampling effort of yours, and particularly to adding the sync option to the delay ❤

Дякую за чудове відео!

I downloaded it today and am very pleased by the tones. Thank you!

Came here for the Domra, and got a Decent Sampler update too - Incredible! Thanks David! I just created my first sample library in Decent Sampler and it was an absolute pleasure, looking forward to making more. :)

This is awesome! I love what you do🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽

You should definitely give a listen to Akdeniz Erbaş. He's skilled at playing the dombra, and he does it quite beautifully

thanks again David - your creativity is a blessing to the world

Fascinating. How many times have I heard my wife over the years say "I can't wait to get home and get out of this dombra..."

i always really apreciate your content is the full package great informative content, great editing and a free library of the insturment? that's just spoiling us thank you.

Such a joy to watch, every time ❤

Thanks for the cool samples & particularly the freebees!

Thanks David! Your work is very inspiring. I've been using Decent Sampler even before i found your channel and it was unexpectedly pleasant to discover that there is a nice person behind the software

These videos are SO good!

It's nice you added that. As opposed to expensive echoboy some free delay plugins that sync are Cocoadelay, NastyDLA, SpaceshipDelay, Valhalla SuperMassive, ValhallaFreqEcho....

Yay! Sync to host! Thank you for everything you do.

Great video. The history lesson was enjoyable, and I'm excited for the new functionality!

Thank you for your creative contribution to the musical community!

yay I am seeing this at 4hrs after the upload. I'm glad. I'm downloading the new samples for my mpc one thank you

I've always loved your free sample libraries but I had no idea you created decent sampler!! Incredible work. And thank you so much for making these plugins free!!

Great video. Learned a bunch.

Man you rock! Thank you very much

As a luthier I can tell you that this instrument is imploding under a combination of very light construction and the force of the string tension needed to tune it to pitch.

Pretty cool how people have been making these guitar/lute/oud type instruments for so long, and in so many variations.

my new favorite channel. Please continue!

Love your videos! Your work has helped me with musical science

You are amazing! These videos with eastern instruments are so interesting. Thank you.

Awesome! Thanks!

You make amazing content! Unmatched!

hell yeah another video with a new instrument + history lesson!

I was looking into one of these for a bit. It's a cool instrument, for sure.

WOW. MY DOMRA. I mean - I actually learned to play it for 5 years.

As a domrist (i play on 3rd strings domra) myself, i really enjoyed this video, thank you for your work❤

Love the videos 👍

Wonderful - can't wait to try it out. Speaking about coding: Another feature I hope you might consider implementing during a rainy weekend, is the ability of Decent Sampler to remember the interface scaling when you close it and reopen. Best wishes from Oslo, Norway.

Thank you!

i just used the sample library without seeing the video. I love it!

beautiful instrument!

Seeing that balalaika unlocked an old memory of a band I heard back in 2009-ish. Katzenjammer. Their lead singer plays a contrabass balalaika. It's HUGE

This came at the perfect time for me, I just bought a Balalaika as my 7th instrument. Thanks David!

That was so cool, Thank you

Once again, I'm very impressed with decent sampler, between Ben, Cameron and yourself you guys are real are the trilogy awesomeness.

Amazing video :D

this is really cool, I was just watching some videos of people playing the domra a few days ago

I am full of admiration for the way you participate in music making. An old, broken down instrument which you seem to instinctively know how to bring back from the brink and which you play with the same soul that you might apply to a violin. The finished sample pack may have more or less of what an aficionado of the instrument might recognise, I wouldn't know. The sounds are lovely. As Mao (apparently) once said, " It makes no difference if a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice."

Impossible not to love your videos. I especially love the qifteli. Im using it in many of my EDM Tracks, and cinematic Tracks.

Love your videos❤

You are so talented!

Thanks from Ukraine ☺️

I can definitely use a dombra, but the tempo synced delay functionality will be great for the next decent sampler instrument I create. I have a spreadsheet that I use to script the sample layers, so it mostly automates the process. Provided I can generate the samples programmatically. Audacity has great functionality for exporting using tags, so if you can make your samples the same length, the spreadsheet can make the tags as well. Hard to do if you're manually sampling something physical, but I've found it useful for constructing things from a complicated VCV Rack patch, or something from PureData.

Veeery nice! ❤

Brilliant adding note length delay. It is like using a tap pedal, in a way. I'm glad you solved something you have considered adding to your program for some time!

Very cool.

Спасибо за видео! Thank you for video!♥

Hey Dave, I only just noticed how many subscribers you have now. Crazy! Congratulations

The sounds/melodies/songs you write (or improv?) are something that so very fits with the style of Samorost.

The evolution and expansion of lute-family instruments across the middle east and Asia is super interesting! I'd hesitate to call them the same instrument though. There's huge variation in size, tunings, playing styles, existence and placement of frets, etc. across all those instruments (though in adjacent countries they do sometimes vary only in name). They are as much independent instruments as things like Oboe and English Horn, Cello and viola da gamba, etc. in the Western musical tradition.

God damn it's so interesting with old instruments.

I used to play one, but it had 3 strings. In our school they also taught 4 string version, tuned like violin

You did a great work with this instrument and your library sounds amazing. I played the domra in orchestra for 3 years while studying at the College of Music. I think the defining technique for playing the domra is tremolo. Of course, it requires a lot of practice to master perfectly, but it would be nice to also be included in library. Just a small suggestion. Thanks!

I've always strung my mandolin single-course to get a similar sound, I like the distinct pluckiness much more than the chorus-ey double-course thing.

Really cool to see those old instruments made into sample libraries. Obviously, domras, as any plucked stringed instruments, are not easily programmable because of how many special playing techniques they use. As a next step, I’d really suggest a baghlama. A very common instrument that characterises the eastern musical tradition well, the microtonal scales, the melodic structure, and the timbre is instantly recognisable. They’re pretty cheap, too, and even the cheap ones sound great.

As someone who also loves coding and music - I'd love to see more about how you write decent sampler!

Another great video! Maybe it's just because I live in Minneapolis, but I can't look at the tone hole on this domra without thinking of Target.

The 4 string Fender Electric Mandolin is essentially an Electrified Domra Prima (or Cremonese Mandolin) w/ Steel Strings

I already want to put an overdrive on the domra, спасибо за видео

nice video! 👌

This year I am graduating from a music school on the Domra instrument. I have exactly the same one as you have in the photo. It's a little painful to see how you play it, because, for example, when playing, not only the hand moves, but the entire arm from the elbow. 😅 But it's very nice to see that someone knows about this instrument! :)

4 strings - Ukrainian Domra, 3 Strings - Russian Domra. Try researching "Kobza".. Many images of 18th century Cossacks playing these. These are precursors to the Domra. Nice sampling project.....great way to stimulate cross - cultural awareness. Cheers.

Your vids are always such an unexpected treat, much like your samples! EKATERINA SKLIAR IS MY NEW SHREDDING HERO!

1:00. That's not unplayable, it was just set up in the hopes that Freddie Green might play it 😊