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The Bass Recorder Black Friday deal from Have Audio is 70% off, which brings this Kontakt instrument to $14.70 until Dec 7, 2026.
It is a sampled bass recorder, the low member of the recorder family. The maker pitches it as the sound of The Mandalorian and a lot more.
The bass recorder is a wind instrument that was common in Europe through the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque periods. It came back into popular culture in the twentieth century.
Have Audio describes the tone as sweet and creamy, with a wide range of articulations, tone colors and special effects.
The instrument has long been associated with birds and shepherds. Its extended techniques also drew twentieth-century avant-garde composers, and more recently film composers.
Ludwig Göransson used it in the main theme of his score for The Mandalorian.
The maker says it covers a lot of ground: early and antique music, medieval melodies, epic scores, songwriting, pop and Beatles-style arrangements, and contemporary classical writing.
Have Audio says it sampled what you need for full playability, plus textures, special effects and embellishments.
The articulation list:
The library is built as a single NKI instrument.
It needs the full version of KONTAKT 5.6.8 or newer. It will not work in the free Kontakt Player.
Yes. The Bass Recorder Black Friday deal takes 70% off Have Audio's Kontakt instrument, bringing it to $14.70. The deal ends Dec 7, 2026.
You get 854 samples in.ncw format, a little over 505MB uncompressed, loaded through a single NKI file. The range runs from F2 to G4, and the articulations include sustains, mordents, frullati, multiphonics, textures and effects.
No. Bass Recorder needs the full version of KONTAKT 5.6.8 or newer. Have Audio states that it will not work in the free Kontakt Player, so you need the full Kontakt version in your setup.
Sustain with and without vibrato, staccato, half and whole tone mordents up and down, frullati, triple and quintuple tonguing. It also has key noises, multiphonics, long and short textures, mouthpiece effects and voice effects.
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