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Axe Machina Black Friday: $49.50, 50% off until Dec 6, 2026, for Soundiron's multi-sampled 7-string electric guitar library for Kontakt Player and NKS.
The maker pitches it at metal. Craig Peters sampled his custom Kiesel Aries multi-scale 7-string, tuned to A Standard.
Axe Machina is a virtual guitar library, a Kontakt instrument you play from your DAW. It runs on the free Kontakt Player and supports NKS.
The source guitar has 24 frets, a swamp ash body and a birdseye maple neck. Guitarmory Polaris pickups and D'Addario XL 10-64 strings complete it.
Soundiron says the swamp ash gives a strong natural tone and resonance.
The library covers single-note and power chord sustains, each with palm mute variations. There is also a bank of performance noises:
You get both. The DI recordings go straight in with no preamp or coloring hardware, so you can send them through your own amp sim plugins or the built-in effects.
The amped tone was reamped with Neural DSP software and dialed in by Craig Peters. The maker describes it as a modern hi-gain sound that works out of the box.
There are 8 Kontakt.nki presets. Main holds every sample, Lite uses fewer round-robins to save RAM, DI is the clean recording, and Amped is the reamped tone.
Standard presets give you individual strings with overlapping notes. Simple variants drop that and use a fixed cross-over point per string.
The interface offers real-time articulation selection, key-switch and mapping options, an arpeggiator, an auto-strummer and a sequencer. There are also LFO, filter and glide controls.
The FX rack has 27 DSP modules across 8 slots, in any order. Modules include phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors and EQ.
The convolution reverb carries 99 impulse responses of rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses. Factory rack chain presets are included.
The download is 22.8 GB installed, with 71,796 samples in locked.ncw format.
Yes. The Axe Machina Black Friday deal is 50% off, bringing the Soundiron Kontakt guitar library to $49.50. The offer ends Dec 6, 2026.
You get 8 Kontakt.nki presets (Main, Lite, DI and Amped, each in standard and Simple versions) and 71,796 samples. The interface has a 27-module FX rack, convolution reverb with 99 impulse responses plus 40 FX impulses, and factory rack presets.
Yes. Soundiron built Axe Machina for Kontakt Player and it supports NKS. The library is 22.8 GB installed, with samples in locked.ncw format.
Yes. The DI presets deliver the pure guitar signal, recorded with no preamp or coloring hardware, so you can run it through your favorite amp simulator plugins. The Amped presets use a Neural DSP reamped tone, and the built-in rack has amp and cab simulators.
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