Apocalypse Percussion Elements Black Friday Deal 2026: $49.50, 50% off

The Apocalypse Percussion Elements Black Friday deal takes 50% off this Soundiron Kontakt library of scoring and concert drums and cymbals, which puts it at $49.50 until Dec 6, 2026.

Apocalypse Percussion Elements is a slimmed-down version of Soundiron's 25GB flagship, the Apocalypse Percussion Ensemble. It covers over 40 drums and over 100 articulations in a compact install.

It runs in the free Kontakt Player (version 5.5.2 or newer) as a VST, AU or AAX plugin.

What is in Apocalypse Percussion Elements?

The library is split into two sets, Solo Elements and Ensemble Elements.

• Solo: 6 snares, 2 bass drums, bongos, cajon, 2 dhol drums, 4 frame drums, floor, low and high toms, 4 rototoms
• Solo cymbals and metals: ride sticks, ride mallets, splashes, crashes, China and FX cymbals, gong, hi-hat, Ting Shag
• Ensemble: snares, bass drums, low and high toms, doumbeks, dhols, riqs, frame drums, sticks, cymbals

The solo snares run from deep 14" wooden bodies down to tiny 5" effect snares. The ensemble snare is an 8-member group.

How was it recorded?

Soundiron says the session ran two weeks, with an average of 8 round-robins per velocity layer and up to 14 velocities each. Each instrument was captured with large-diaphragm capsules placed within 12 inches of the drum heads. The library focuses on a close/stage stereo mic position and single-stroke multisampled articulations.

It was recorded in the same hall as Soundiron's Olympus Symphonic Choir (Mars & Venus), Mercury Symphonic Boychoir, Montclarion Hall Piano, Struck Grand Piano, Cymbology, Anklung and Tuned Artillery libraries. The maker says that makes it blend with any of them.

What can you control?

The custom interface gives you fully automatable performance controls.

• Swell, attack, release, offset, tuning and velocity response on the front panel
• Room release for four sub-groups: basses, snares, auxiliary and cymbals
• Customizable key mapping, or load common drum library mapping standards
• Megamixer with kit saving and loading
• Adaptive meta-arpeggiator with preset saving and loading
• FX rack with 70 integrated convolution IR samples

The maker says the room release controls let you turn the hall ensemble into a tight rock kit with a few knobs.

The library also ships with 400 MIDI grooves, made by Soundiron featured artists including Blake Ewing, Dirk Ehlert, Ian Dorsch, Johnny Knittle, Marie-Anne Fischer, Sascha Knorr, Si Begg, Simon Russell, Tino Danielzik and Xiaotian Shi.

Specs and system requirements

Version 1.5 holds 4,519 samples in 24-bit/48kHz lossless NCW format, 2.15 GB installed (4.4 GB uncompressed). There are 52 NKI instrument presets.

Windows XP or higher or Mac OS X 10.9 or higher is required. Soundiron recommends a dual-core CPU, 2 GB of RAM and a SATA or SSD drive. It is a digital download, so you need a broadband connection.