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For this ASPIRE: Modern Mallets Black Friday deal, you get 58% off Heavyocity's tuned percussion instrument for Kontakt, at $49 until Dec 18, 2026.
ASPIRE is Heavyocity's take on cinematic tuned percussion. It starts from deeply sampled marimba and vibes and pushes them into hybrid scoring territory.
According to the maker, the source material covers a wide span, including moody, atmospheric recordings made with bows and effects as well as rhythmic, conventionally hit notes.
The library ships with 8,728 samples, 16 sound sources and 112 custom presets. An intuitive sample browser helps you move through the material.
The maker describes the Ascend engine as a whole new world to explore. It brings the rhythmic convolutions together with layerable sources and effects.
With the Three-Point Mixer you shape a patch in one place. Blend the sources, then lean on Creative Echoes if you want the performance to drift a little.
Heavyocity says tonal percussion is an integral part of the composer's palette. ASPIRE is pitched as a new take on those essential tools for modern scoring.
ASPIRE is a powered-by-Kontakt instrument. It needs the full version of Kontakt 6.6.1 or later, or the free Kontakt 6 Player.
If you plan to run it as a plugin, keep the disk footprint in mind. Even with lossless compression the library takes 5.44 GB.
Yes. The ASPIRE: Modern Mallets Black Friday deal takes 58% off, putting the Heavyocity Kontakt instrument at $49. The offer ends Dec 18, 2026. It is a direct download, so there is nothing to ship.
ASPIRE includes 8,728 samples, 16 sound sources and 112 custom presets, plus an intuitive sample browser. Features include an ARP, the Three-Point Mixer, the Echoes feature and the Ascend engine with its rhythmic convolutions.
No. ASPIRE is powered by Kontakt 6.6.1 and runs in either the full version of Kontakt 6.6.1 or later or the free Kontakt 6 Player. Both give you all playback and sound-shaping functions.
ASPIRE runs as Standalone, VST, AU and AAX. It is also Komplete Kontrol integrated and NKS-ready. The library is a direct download only, at 11.66 GB uncompressed or 5.44 GB on disk with NI lossless compression.
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