Now shipping from Best Service, the Ethno World 5 Professional & Voices sound library offers a plethora of world instrument and "ethnic" vocal samples.

Ethno World 5 Professional & Voices includes more than 240 world instruments and more than 18,000 samples organized into the following categories: bowed instruments, stringed instruments, woodwind and brass, key instruments, bell type instruments, metal instruments, world drums, world percussion, gongs and bowls, and voices and choirs.

The massive sample library is so big because not only does it contain the aforementioned samples, it contains the entire Best Service sample library, "Ethno World 4 Professional," plus an additional 10 GB of material with about 5,500 new samples. All of this wraps up to be about 20 GB of samples and more than 80 patches. According to Best Service, Ethno World 5 Professional & Voices is one of the largest ethnic sample libraries worldwide.

In addition, the new Ethno World collection offers 25 professionally recorded solo-voices from all over the world and an ethnic chamber choir with over 3,800 new samples and phrases. With this library, you will get voices from North America, Cameroon, Guinea, China, Iran, Turkey, Bulgaria, Ukraine, North Africa, and Peru. All of the collection's instruments and vocals are played by musicians and singers under the direction of Andreas Hofner and Marcel Barsotti. For a full list of instruments and voices (there are too many to name here), visit the Best Service Web site.

Powered by Native Instruments Kontakt Player, Ethno World 5 Professional & Voices is available for Windows and Mac OS X. It can be loaded in the full version of Kontakt 4, it can be played as a standalone instrument, or it can be used as a plugin in VST, Audio Units, and RTAS formats.

Best Service has officially released Ethno World 5 Professional & Voices for 449 EUR (approximately $571). Upgrades from Ethno World 3 or Ethno World 4 are 149 EUR ($190).

For more details about Ethno World 5 Professional & Voices, please visit Best Service at bestservice.de.