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The Bamboo Stick Ensemble Black Friday deal takes 50% off a Soundiron scoring percussion library for Kontakt, bringing it to $19.50 until Dec 6, 2026. It is built from long, heavy raw bamboo poles, played more like weapons than instruments.
Soundiron says the library has been used in major film soundtracks such as Avatar and Tron Legacy.
It is a Kontakt percussion library that captures the tight, powerful clack of raw bamboo. Soundiron struck, clashed, bent, dragged, scraped and pounded the poles until they splintered, with both solo and ensemble articulations.
The poles were 8-foot by 2-inch bamboo, sampled in their natural state. Striking and scraping them on a stone floor gives aggressive slaps, clacks, screeches, drones and howls.
Grinding the bamboo against stone also produced haunting drones, roars and horn-like wails, so the library reaches past war percussion into tonal and effects territory.
It was recorded in a tile and stone hall, with the aim of a massive epic percussion sound. Soundiron's view is that true epic percussion can only be done in a natural hall.
The Kontakt interface exposes automation-ready controls for:
There are 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, and each can be steered by velocity, the modwheel, expression, aftertouch, the position of the played key, or a step-sequencer table.
The modular FX rack has 18 DSP modules to fill 10 slots in any order. You get phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ and a rotator.
The convolution reverb carries 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses for heavier reshaping. Factory FX rack chain presets are included, along with 22 sound-designed custom FX presets.
This is a Kontakt library, an open-format NKI bank that needs the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or later. The free Kontakt Player runs it only in a limited demo mode.
The samples and presets are unlocked, so you can use the WAVs in other wav-compatible samplers and synths. Because it is open format, it does not appear in the Libraries tab. Load it through the File browser tab or Quickload instead.
Yes. The Bamboo Stick Ensemble Black Friday deal is 50% off this Soundiron Kontakt library, which brings it to $19.50. The offer ends Dec 6, 2026.
Raw bamboo poles struck, clashed, bent, dragged and scraped, with solo and ensemble articulations. Grinding them on stone adds drones, screeches, roars and horn-like wails. The library offers short hits in upper and lower registers, effects, one-hit held notes, trembling bowed-style articulations and sustained loops.
Only in a limited demo mode. It is an open-format library that needs the full retail Kontakt 5.5 or later. The WAV samples are unlocked, so you can also use them in other wav-compatible samplers and synths.
A modular FX rack with 18 DSP modules across 10 slots, a convolution reverb with 99 spaces plus 40 FX impulses, an LFO, 12 filters, an arpeggiator, and a key and scale lock. There are also 22 custom FX presets.
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