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The Brad hoyt's Harp Guitar Black Friday deal takes 50% off this 30-string acoustic harp guitar library for Kontakt, which comes to $49.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
It is a fully multi-sampled Kontakt instrument from Soundiron. The maker says it covers single-note lead lines, chord building, rhythm work, glisses and strums, all with real-time control and automation support.
The source is a custom harp guitar commissioned by classical guitarist Brad Hoyt, called the "Arpa Viola Caipira". Luthier Stephen Sedgwick in the U.K. built it from Brad's concept drawings over a four-year process.
Soundiron captured the instrument with two matched large-diaphragm Neumann microphones and Sound Devices preamps, placing them near the strings in a dry, widely spread stereo image. A dry capture leaves you free to shape the tone for your own arrangement and mix.
The library covers plucks, palm mutes, chokes, slides, glisses, scrapes and body percussion. Each note can cycle through as many as 12 alternating takes and respond across as many as 7 dynamic levels.
The chord and strum tools draw on real multi-samples instead of fixed pre-recorded chords, which the maker says gives far more organic variation. You control strum speed, stroke direction, tightness and dynamics in real time.
Two extra presets treat the instrument as percussion. Tuned Percussion gives full-range, zither-like playability, and Body and FX Percussion covers the knocks and scrapes.
The library ships as 13 Kontakt 5.3.1.nki presets, 4,203 samples at 24 bit / 48kHz, and takes 11.8 GB. It needs the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.3.1 or later.
It is an open-format library, so the free Kontakt Player only runs it in a limited demo mode. Load it through the File browser tab or the Quickload window, because the Libraries tab does not support it.
The samples and presets are unlocked, so you can use the.wav files in other samplers. Windows 7 or higher and Mac OSX 10.8 or higher are supported. The maker recommends a dual-core CPU, 3 GB of RAM and a SATA or SSD drive.
Yes. The Black Friday deal takes 50% off this Soundiron Kontakt library, bringing it to $49.50. The offer ends Dec 6, 2026.
You get 13 Kontakt presets covering a 10-string acoustic guitar, bass harp and treble harp, plus percussion presets, the Strumulator chord tool, a full effects rack and 40 atmospheres and drones. It totals 4,203 samples.
Not fully. It is an open-format library, so the free Kontakt Player runs it only in a limited demo mode. You need the full retail Kontakt 5.3.1 or later, and the.wav samples are unlocked for other samplers.
Soundiron recorded it up close and dry, in wide stereo, using a matched pair of large Neumann studio microphones and Sound Devices preamps. The instrument is a custom harp guitar called the Arpa Viola Caipira.
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