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The Chroma Bells Black Friday deal covers Soundiron's Kontakt library of tuned hand bells at $14.50, 50% off, until Dec 6, 2026.
The library holds 12 tuned steel, brass and bronze hand bells from England, India, China and Tibet. Soundiron says each bell has its own bright or dark resonant character.
The instrument list includes English Handbells, a Tibetan Ceremonial Bell, a Swiss Cow Bell, a Chinese Brass Temple Bell and an Indian Claw Bell.
Soundiron recorded single-note rings, sustaining rolls and muted articulations. Every one was captured with velocity layering and round robin variations.
The maker pitches it for full melodic compositions, accents in percussive arrangements and pure sound effects.
Here is the content at a glance:
You can blend three stereo mic setups freely. Close is an ultra-close pair of large-diaphragm studio mics, which Soundiron describes as dry, crisp and strongly present.
The Room channel was captured with two small-diaphragm omnidirectional microphones set far apart above the kit, giving a roomy, open ambience.
Retro Cans is a pair of rustic tin can microphones. According to its creator, Chroma Bells aims for a vintage mid-century sound: soft, shadowy and cozy in the mids, with gentle attack edges.
The LFO system lets you pick the shape, modulation target, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in time. Chroma Bells has 12 filters spanning lowpass, high-pass and FX types, and you can route modulation from sources such as how hard you play, the mod wheel, expression, channel pressure, where a note sits on the keyboard, or a table driven by the step sequencer.
The arpeggiator has a velocity table plus control over direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. A key and scale lock keeps your notes inside common scales and keys, which helps with melodic writing and live playing.
The FX rack offers 27 DSP modules across 8 slots, in any order. They include phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ and rotator.
The convolution reverb carries 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses for heavier sound design. A bank of FX rack chain factory presets is included as a starting point.
Chroma Bells needs the full version of Kontakt 6.2.2 or later. Kontakt Player is not compatible with this open-format instrument.
Yes. The Chroma Bells Black Friday deal takes 50% off Soundiron's Kontakt hand bell library, bringing it to $14.50. The offer ends Dec 6, 2026.
Chroma Bells has 12 tuned steel, brass and bronze hand bells, 21 Kontakt.nki presets and 20 sound-designed FX and ambient presets. That is 6,959 stereo samples at 24 bit / 48 kHz, taking 9.8 GB installed.
No. Soundiron states that Kontakt Player is not compatible with this open-format instrument. You need the full version of Kontakt, version 6.2.2 or later, on Windows 7 or higher or Mac OS X 10.12 or higher.
Three stereo positions that you can mix and layer: Close, a pair of large-diaphragm studio mics; Room, wide-spaced pencil omnis overhead; and Retro Cans, a pair of tin can mics with a warm mid-range, dark tone and rounded transients.
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