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Angklung Black Friday pricing cuts 50% from this Soundiron Kontakt library of Indonesian bamboo tuned percussion, so it costs $24.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
The real instrument dates back to roughly the 7th Century AD and has spread across Southeast Asia and Polynesia. You hear it in gamelan orchestras, pop bands and jazz ensembles.
Each angklung is a pair of bamboo tubes, one an octave above the other, sounded by a loose rattle. Soundiron describes the result as a full, clear, dry note with a short sustain.
Soundiron sampled 18 angklung notes, tuned to a major scale across nearly 3 octaves. The recordings come from a dry studio and a large open hall, with close, mid and far mics in the hall.
Up and down strokes were recorded separately. The dry samples carry 48 round-robins per velocity and note (24 up, 24 down), and the hall samples carry 16 (8 up, 8 down).
The library ships with an upgraded Uberpeggiator meta-arpeggiator. It builds sustaining angklung rolls with speed and intensity controls, optional host tempo sync and velocity graphing.
The instrument is set up mainly for the EZ-Roll mode, though the other Uber modes work too. With the Uberpeggiator off, it plays as a single-strike, mallet-tuned bamboo percussion instrument.
Attack, offset, release, swell and micro-tuning are all host-automatable. Soundiron says a shorter attack and offset tighten the sound, while longer settings give pad-like results.
The width control sets the stereo spread of the individual angklungs by key position. That lets you place the instrument against other parts in a mix.
There is also a convolution reverb with more than 50 custom impulses, plus a 3-band parametric EQ. Release timing has an extended decay range, and the release sample volume is set independently.
The library installs at 3.5 GB with 7 Kontakt presets and over 6,700 samples, all 24-bit/48kHz uncompressed WAV. It needs the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 4.2.4 or later.
It is an open-format library, so the free Kontakt Player does not support it. Samples and presets are unlocked, so you can import the WAVs into other samplers.
Soundiron recommends a dual core CPU, 2 GB of RAM and an SATA or SSD drive. It runs on Windows XP or higher and Mac OSX 10.6 or higher.
Yes. The Angklung Black Friday deal takes 50% off this Soundiron Kontakt library, so it costs $24.50 until Dec 6, 2026. The offer covers the full library: 7 presets, over 6,700 samples and the Uberpeggiator system.
You get 18 angklung notes across nearly 3 octaves, recorded dry in a studio and wet in a hall with 3 mic positions. It also includes looping sustains, pads and soundscapes, 7 presets and over 50 convolution impulses.
No. Angklung is an open-format library, and the free Kontakt Player does not support it. It needs the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 4.2.4 or later to load the.nki presets.
It builds sustaining angklung rolls with fluid attack, sustain and release, plus real-time speed and intensity controls. You can sync it to host tempo and use velocity graphing. EZ-Roll is the main mode, and the other Uber modes work too.
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