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Alto Xylophone Black Friday pricing is 50% off, which puts this Soundiron Kontakt library of sampled Orff tuned percussion at $14.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
It is a wooden tuned percussion and sound-design library built for Kontakt. The main instrument is an Orff alto xylophone, the kind found in elementary music classrooms, just over two feet long.
Soundiron describes its tone as warm and plunky with a fast decay.
The alto has 13 rosewood bars in a diatonic C major scale, C4 to A5. Soundiron played it with felt mallets, then added glisses and percussive knocks.
Two soprano xylophones sit an octave higher. One has 13 notes (C5 to A6) and a rounded, playful timbre. The other has 12 notes (C5 to G6) and a crisp, biting tone, played with mallets and wooden cube hammers.
All three were recorded dry in a studio with two microphone positions, 10 round robins and up to 14 velocity layers per note.
The natural sources were extended into sound-design material:
Soundiron says it suits genres from horror to jazz, as an acoustic percussive accent in a composition.
The interface has an LFO with selectable shape, modulation target, speed, intensity, tempo-sync and fade-in time. There are also 12 low-pass, high-pass and FX filters. Modulation targets include 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 constrains notes to common scales and keys, which helps with melodic writing and live playing.
The modular FX rack offers 18 DSP modules across 10 slots, in any order you choose. Modules include phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ and rotator.
The convolution reverb carries 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses. Factory FX rack chain presets are included as starting points.
You need the full version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or above. In the free Kontakt Player it runs in demo mode only.
The system requirements are:
Yes. The Alto Xylophone Black Friday deal is 50% off, taking this Soundiron Kontakt library to $14.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
You get an alto xylophone with 13 rosewood bars and two soprano xylophones, in two mic positions. Soundiron adds 20 ambient soundscapes and 20 custom FX presets, in one master NKI bank with 14,129 stereo WAV files.
No. It needs the full version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or above. In the free Kontakt Player engine it only runs in demo mode, so the full library is not available there.
It has an LFO, 12 filters, an arpeggiator and key and scale lock. The FX rack holds 18 DSP modules across 10 slots, and the convolution reverb includes 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces plus 40 FX impulses.
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