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Cacophony Black Friday pricing is 50% off, which puts Soundiron's Kontakt library of live concert hall sound effects at $9.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
Cacophony is a Kontakt instrument built from concert hall roomtones, audience applause and murmurs, orchestral tuning drones, warm-ups and incidental sound effects. Soundiron says it has been recording orchestras, ensembles and solo performers for nearly 2 decades to build it.
The maker calls it the most massive collection of its kind, so treat that as their claim.
Soundiron's pitch is the ghost of the place. The murmur of the crowd, the players tuning up, the small sounds between pieces. Polished, hyperreal productions can lose that, and Soundiron says the absence leaves something feeling missing.
You can use the sounds for sound design in any style of music, or in games, film, VR, television and apps. They also work to simulate a live performance environment whenever a session needs one.
The content falls into four groups, plus ambience patches made from the source recordings:
The library holds 765 stereo WAV files, recorded as 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM, and takes up 12.6 GB once installed. It loads as one master NKI instrument bank in open Kontakt format.
The Kontakt interface carries automation-ready controls for swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching, cross-fading and layering. There are also 20 custom sound-designed FX presets.
An LFO system lets you pick the shape, modulation target, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in time. You can run any of 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, with modulation targets such as velocity, modwheel, expression, aftertouch, key position and step-sequencer table control.
The arpeggiator has a velocity table and controls for direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. A key and scale lock keeps your notes inside common scales and keys.
The modular rack offers 18 DSP effect modules across 10 slots, in any order. Cacophony packs a wide toolkit of modulation, time and dynamics effects along with amp and cabinet modelling, tone shaping and a rotary speaker, and it ships with ready-made factory rack chains to start from.
The convolution reverb carries 99 impulse responses of rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces. Another 40 custom FX impulses are there for pushing a sound well away from its source.
Cacophony needs the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or later. It is an open-format library, so the free Kontakt Player only runs it in a limited demo mode.
The Libraries tab does not support it. Import it through the standard File browser tab or the Quickload window instead. The sample directories are unlocked, so the WAVs also work in other WAV-compatible samplers.
System requirements are Windows 7 or higher or Mac OSX 10.9 or higher, a dual-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM. Soundiron recommends a SATA or SSD drive.
Yes. Soundiron's Cacophony Kontakt library is 50% off at $9.50 until Dec 6, 2026. It is a 12.6 GB collection of concert hall roomtones, audience reactions and orchestral tuning sounds.
Cacophony includes orchestra tuning and warm-up sounds, audience noises, concert hall SFX and roomtones, plus 20 ambience patches. That is 765 stereo WAV files in one master NKI bank, along with 20 custom sound-designed FX presets.
No. It needs the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or later. The free Player only runs this open-format library in a limited demo mode. The sample directories are unlocked, so the WAVs can also load in other WAV-compatible samplers.
Controls cover swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter and pitch, with an LFO, an arpeggiator and key and scale lock. The FX rack has 18 DSP modules across 10 slots, and the convolution reverb offers 99 impulse responses plus 40 FX impulses.
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