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The Aeolian Fan Harp Black Friday deal runs 50% off, at $19.50, until Dec 6, 2026, on Soundiron's Kontakt library of a hand-built 12-string wind harp.
The source instrument was made by Dust Bowl Guitars. It follows the idea of the ancient Greek wind harp: a 12-stringed, non-fretted, hollow-body instrument with a 120mm PC fan mounted under the strings near the bridge, so it makes its own wind.
It uses steel-wound strings and electric guitar pickups instead of nylon.
Plucked with the fan off, the maker says it sounds like a baritone electric guitar. Switch the fan on and it produces a steady drone.
Bow, scrape or gliss the strings and you get cinematic clusters, sound effects and undulating drones. The instrument took three months to build and was sampled by Soundiron contributors John Valasis and Konstantinos Sakkas.
The Aeolian Fan Harp Kontakt library installs at 13.8 GB and holds 3,411 stereo samples, recorded as 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav files. Both a close stereo microphone position and a direct stereo pickup line out were captured.
The Kontakt interface has automation-ready controls for swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching, cross-fading and layering.
There is also an LFO with selectable shape, modulation target, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in time. You can choose from 12 low-pass, high-pass and FX filters, with targets such as velocity, mod wheel, expression, aftertouch, key position and step-sequencer table control.
The arpeggiator has a velocity table and controls for direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. A key and scale lock keeps notes inside common scales and keys.
The FX rack has 18 DSP modules that go into any of 10 slots in any order. It includes phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ and rotator. The reverb section offers 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses.
Windows 7 or higher, or Mac OS X 10.9 or higher. A dual-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM are listed, and a SATA or SSD drive is recommended.
The full version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or above is required. In the free Kontakt Player it only runs in demo mode.
Yes. The Aeolian Fan Harp Black Friday deal takes 50% off Soundiron's Kontakt library, bringing it to $19.50. The offer ends Dec 6, 2026.
It is a hand-made 12-string, non-fretted, hollow-body instrument from Dust Bowl Guitars. A 120mm PC fan under the strings near the bridge creates wind, and steel-wound strings feed electric guitar pickups. Soundiron sampled it for Kontakt.
No. It needs the full version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or above. In the free Kontakt Player it runs only in demo mode. It supports Windows 7 or higher and Mac OS X 10.9 or higher.
You get one NKI bank with 3,411 stereo samples at 24 bit / 48 kHz, 13.8 GB installed. It covers sustains, E-bow, mutes, harmonics and SFX, plus 20 ambience patches, 20 FX presets and an FX rack with convolution reverb.
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