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Aevium Black Friday pricing is $39.50, 50% off, until Dec 6, 2026, for Soundiron's Kontakt synth library of leads and pads built entirely from bird-of-prey recordings.
Soundiron made it with the sound effects house BOOM Library. Every sound starts life as a source recording from BOOM's Birds Of Prey library, which captures owls, eagles, crows, hawks, falcons, vultures and other large raptors.
Aevium is a sample-based synth instrument in open NKI format. The maker says the team spent months warping, stretching, modulating, glitching and overdriving the raw bird recordings, then re-synthesizing them into playable patches.
The library holds 1,810 stereo 24-bit 48kHz WAV samples, 11.2 GB installed. Content runs across sustains, staccatos, basses, leads and FX in more than 20 categories.
The interface runs on Soundiron's Oroboros ambient synthesis engine, the same one behind Ambius Prime and Quadral. It is built around four layers, each laid out as its own quadrant.
Every layer has independent Attack, Release, Offset, Pitch and Pan controls. Each also has its own filter with 39 filter types.
Modulators can draw from three sources:
They can be pointed at five targets: Volume, Pitch, Pan, Filter Frequency and Filter Resonance.
The XY Pad defaults to blending volume between the four layers. You can reassign each axis to filters or a selection of FX, add tempo-synced motion, and limit the X and Y range to carve out new patterns in the tone.
The reverb ships with over 100 of Soundiron's real-world and special FX spaces, including rooms, halls, chambers and FX environments. The preset browser sorts everything into searchable musical, textural and aesthetic categories.
You need the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt, version 5.8 or later. The free Kontakt Player and the Add Library import process do not support this open-format library, and it will sit in demo mode there.
It runs on Windows 7 or higher and Mac OS X 10.9 or higher. The maker lists a dual-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM, and recommends a SATA or SSD drive for the 11.2 GB of samples.
Yes. The Aevium Black Friday deal is 50% off, bringing the Soundiron Kontakt library to $39.50 until Dec 6, 2026. It is the full 11.2 GB instrument with over 400 factory presets, not a cut-down version.
Every sound comes from BOOM Library's Birds Of Prey collection, which records owls, eagles, crows, hawks, falcons and vultures. Soundiron warped, stretched, glitched and overdrove those recordings, then re-synthesized them into 1,810 samples of leads, pads and textures.
No. Aevium needs the full retail version of Kontakt 5.8 or later. The free Kontakt Player and its Add Library import do not support this open-format NKI library, and the instrument stays in demo mode there.
By default it balances volume across the four layers. You can assign each axis to a different parameter, such as filters or selected FX, add tempo-syncable rhythmic motion, and limit the X and Y range to create new patterns in the tone.
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