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The Bamblong Black Friday deal covers Soundiron's Kontakt library of a small bamboo idiophone, with 50% off and a price of $19.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
The Bamblong is a tuned bamboo mallet instrument, close in family to a marimba or an angklung. This Bamblong plugin for Kontakt turns it into a playable sample library.
The real instrument is hand-crafted from cut and carved bamboo sourced in Southeast Asia. A row of tuned bamboo logs works as resonance chambers, each 1½ to 2¼ inches in diameter and 8 to 14 inches long, with sound holes cut into the top.
The playing surface is a thin bamboo plank suspended on pegs over each log. Struck with mallets cut from recycled rubber bicycle tire, it gives a smooth, mellow note that is still crisp and clear, with a quick decay.
Soundiron first recorded it in a close, intimate, dry setting, which the maker says keeps the full warmth and tonality of each note. That dry capture also leaves it open to any reverb or spatial effect you want to put on it in your signal chain.
The sampling goes deep, per the maker:
A second set was recorded in a large glass and stone hall for a bright, organic live sound. Soundiron describes this wet version as suited to symphonic arrangements and to blending with other concert percussion.
Each of the four notes was recorded twice over, struck with soft rubber mallets and swept with jazz brushes, across as many as 24 dynamic levels and 10 alternating takes per note. They are hand-tuned and spread across 4 octaves.
Micro-tuning and a width control let you set how the instrument sits in a mix with other parts. Width controls stereo panning based on key position, which the maker says simulates the natural stereo spread of the instrument in an orchestral setting.
The library does not run fully in the free Kontakt Player engine and only works in demo mode there.
Yes. The Bamblong Black Friday deal takes 50% off Soundiron's bamboo mallet percussion library for Kontakt, bringing the price to $19.50. The offer runs until Dec 6, 2026.
It is a Kontakt library of a hand-built bamboo idiophone. It holds dry studio samples and a wet version recorded in a glass and stone hall, with mallet strikes, nylon brush strikes and brush rolls with release samples.
No. It needs the full version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.1 or above. In the free Kontakt Player engine it only runs in demo mode. Soundiron lists Windows 7 or higher and Mac OSX 10.9 or higher.
Soundiron recorded it with an average of 20 velocity layers per note and 10 round robins per layer. Strikes were played with rubber mallets and nylon jazz brushes, and the notes are hand-tuned across 4 octaves.
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