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Crumhorn Black Friday deals start at 70% off, which puts this Have Audio Kontakt instrument at $11.70 until Dec 7, 2026.
It is a sampled tenor crumhorn, a double reed woodwind that was mostly played in the Renaissance and came back into popular culture in the 60s through the early music revival.
Crumhorn is a Kontakt instrument, not a standalone plugin. It needs the full version of Kontakt to load.
The real instrument is built much like the chanter of a bagpipe. That gives it a strong buzzing, bagpipe-like tone while still allowing a lot of different timbres and colors.
Have Audio sampled a tenor crumhorn and went through its sound possibilities, with the bell both open and closed.
They also recorded it with the "onion" bell mouth, known as the Cromorno d'Amore. The maker says it delivers a stunning, muted vox humana-type sound.
That range covers a bit under two octaves. It sits in the low-mid register, so it is the kind of voice you would place under a melody rather than on top of it.
The library ships with six articulations:
The two trills are the half tone and whole tone versions, so you get both trill intervals without programming them by hand.
Crumhorn requires the full version of KONTAKT 5.6.8 or newer. It is not compatible with the free Kontakt Player, and Have Audio states this plainly: the product will not work in Kontakt Player.
If your signal chain already runs the full Kontakt, you can load it like any other library in your DAW.
Yes. The Crumhorn Black Friday deal is 70% off, which puts this Have Audio Kontakt instrument at $11.70. The offer ends Dec 7, 2026.
Crumhorn has 438 samples in.ncw format, over 584MB uncompressed, in 3 NKI files. It covers a range of C2 to F#3 and six articulations, including sustains, a vibrato staccato and two trills.
No. Have Audio says Crumhorn requires the full version of KONTAKT 5.6.8 or newer and will not work in Kontakt Player. It is not compatible with the free Kontakt Player.
The Cromorno d'Amore is the crumhorn played with an "onion" bell mouth. The maker describes the result as a stunning, muted vox humana-type sound, and it is part of what Have Audio sampled alongside the open and closed bell.
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