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Cathedral of Junk Black Friday pricing is 50% off, which puts this Soundiron Kontakt library of struck scrap and found objects at $9.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
The sounds come from a real place. Vince Hannemann, the "Junk King", has spent over 20 years building a tower of old TVs, car parts, appliances and scrap in his Austin backyard.
Soundiron's team visited with friends and hit dozens of surfaces on it with drumsticks. The library holds playable multisamples of the most musical finds, from old cymbals and refrigerators to saw blades and artificial legs.
It ships as one master NKI bank in open Kontakt format. The maker lists these specs:
The Junk King Percussion Ensemble covers items like Bent Cymbal, Bike Spokes, Billboard, Chandelier, Chemical Barrel, Junk Bell, Piano Strings, Saw Blade, Tibetan Chime, Water Cooler and Wind Chimes.
The interface gives you swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching, cross-fading and layering. All of it is automation-ready.
The LFO lets you pick the shape, the modulation target, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in time. There are 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, and modulation can come from velocity, modwheel, expression, aftertouch, key position or the step-sequencer table.
The arpeggiator has a velocity table and controls for direction, timing, swing, randomisation and duration. A key and scale lock keeps your notes inside common scales and keys.
The rack has 18 DSP effect modules that you can load into any of 10 slots, in any order. They include phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ and a rotator.
The convolution reverb holds 99 impulse responses of rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses that reshape the tail far beyond a normal room. Factory FX rack chain presets are included as starting points.
You need the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or later. The free Kontakt Player only runs this open-format library in demo mode, and the Libraries tab does not support it. Load it through the File browser tab or the Quickload window instead.
System requirements are Windows 7 or higher, or Mac OSX 10.9 or higher. The maker recommends a dual-core CPU, 2 GB of RAM and a SATA or SSD drive. The sample directories are unlocked, so the WAV files also work in other WAV-compatible samplers and synths.
Yes. The Cathedral of Junk Black Friday deal takes 50% off this Soundiron Kontakt library, bringing it to $9.50. The offer ends Dec 6, 2026. The library holds 521 samples of struck scrap and found objects.
No. It is a standard open-format Kontakt library, so the free Kontakt Player only runs it in demo mode. You need the full retail Kontakt 5.5 or later, and you load it through the File browser tab or Quickload window.
Soundiron recorded them at the Cathedral of Junk, a tower of scrap in an Austin backyard built by Vince Hannemann. They hit dozens of objects and surfaces with drumsticks, then edited the best into playable multisamples.
It has an LFO system, 12 filters, an arpeggiator and a key and scale lock. The FX rack offers 18 DSP modules across 10 slots, plus a convolution reverb with 99 spaces and 40 custom FX impulses.
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