Bloom by KSHMR – Indian & South Asian Virtual Instrument

Plenty of instruments promise world sounds; most deliver a token sitar preset and a clear conscience. Bloom by KSHMR is what happens when a producer whose identity is built on Indian musical heritage — KSHMR, working with Excite Audio — builds the instrument himself. Authentic recordings from across India and South Asia, a deep sequencing engine, and 250+ presets, for $29.99.

The Library: Recorded, Not Imitated

The content is royalty-free material recorded across India and South Asia with high-end techniques: expressive percussion and tabla and drum-circle samples, sitars, rababs and oud, bansuri flutes, vocal phrases, and atmospheric and cinematic textures with Bollywood-inspired orchestration. These are performances with the phrasing and feel that sampled-from-a-sample-pack content never quite captures — the difference between a picture of a place and having been there.

The Engine: Bloom’s Sequencer at the Centre

Bloom’s advanced sequencing engine turns the library into a composition tool: patterns and phrases evolve under your hands with host BPM sync, and the advanced edit page opens up sample editing, modulation and multi-mode playback for deeper design. Four macro controls — Lo-Fi, Tube, Width and Space — reshape any preset in seconds, backed by built-in noise, reverb and dynamics effects. Randomisation features generate variations when you need a nudge, and drag-and-drop sample import lets you feed your own recordings through the same engine, with 14 sample keys to play them across.

Where It Fits

EDM and electronic producers chasing the KSHMR-adjacent sound — or an identity of their own built from the same soil. Cinematic composers needing ethnic textures that carry a cue. Bollywood-inspired soundtrack work, trap and hip-hop producers sampling melodic phrases, world music productions, and ambient and experimental artists mining the atmospheric content. The 250+ presets make the first session productive within minutes; the edit page makes the fiftieth session still interesting.

Compatibility

Bloom by KSHMR runs on macOS 10.15 or later (Intel and Apple Silicon) and Windows 7 or later, in VST, VST3, AU and AAX formats plus a standalone application. A 64-bit DAW host is required, with an internet connection for installation and activation. It works in Ableton Live, FL Studio, Cubase, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Reaper and other major hosts.

From Preset to Signature in Minutes

Start anywhere in the 250+ presets and the macros immediately make it yours: Lo-Fi for dust and nostalgia, Tube for warmth and weight, Width for stereo drama, Space for atmosphere. Then open the edit page and go deeper — resample a tabla phrase across the 14 keys, sequence it against a bansuri line, randomise for a variation you would never have programmed. The instrument rewards both the deadline-driven preset surfer and the sound designer with a free afternoon, which is a rarer combination than it should be.

Why Authenticity Wins the Mix

South Asian elements sit in modern productions as hooks — the part of the track a listener hums. Hooks built from genuinely recorded performances carry micro-timing and expression that imitations flatten, and listeners feel the difference even when they cannot name it. For $29.99, Bloom puts the real thing — recorded across India and South Asia, royalty-free — under your fingers.

For media work, the value sharpens further: a single Bloom phrase can carry an advertisement, a title sequence or a game menu into unmistakably South Asian territory without a session musician, a licensing negotiation or a sample-clearance headache. Royalty-free, recallable and editable inside one instrument — that is production infrastructure, not just inspiration.

The Deal, Plainly

A celebrity-producer signature instrument with a genuinely recorded regional library and a serious engine, for $29.99. If your productions have ever needed South Asian colour and settled for a preset named after a place it never visited, this is the upgrade — authentic source material, modern workflow, one fair price.