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The Cylindrum Black Friday deal puts Soundiron's tuned percussion library for Kontakt at $24.50, 50% off, until Dec 6, 2026.
Cylindrum is built around a large tuned percussion instrument that works on the principle of open and closed air column resonance. Gregg Stephens constructed it, with some involved mathematics and a few bloody fingers along the way.
Soundiron describes the result as a strange organic synthesizer crossed with tuned tom toms.
The library holds three variations of the instrument:
For the fat set, the source is ribbed ABS pipe measuring four inches across, fitted with a rubber-lined opening at one end and struck with a ping pong paddle. Soundiron says both dry sets were recorded in a dry studio room, giving a full, resonant tone for arpeggiated melodies and driving bass lines.
The wet version uses the same 4-inch tubing, but with felt mallets on a 3/8″ heavy rubber cap and a closed port. It was recorded in an ultra-wide stereo array in a glass and tile hall. The maker says that gives a more distant sound with a harder transient, suited to dramatic scoring and layering over other percussion.
The multisampled articulations break down like this:
All in, that is 3,367 samples at 24-bit, 48kHz WAV, taking up 1.76 GB installed.
There are 13 sound-designed atmospheric ambiences made from the original Cylindrum recordings. The LFO system has selectable shape, target, speed, intensity, tempo-sync and fade-in.
Twelve filter types can be assigned to velocity, modwheel, expression, after-touch, key position and the sequencer. An arpeggiator and play-assist with key and scale locking are on board too.
The modular FX rack offers 18 DSP effect modules, including convolution reverb with 99 custom environmental presets and 38 FX reverb presets.
This is a standard open-format Kontakt library with one master.nki instrument bank. It needs the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 6.2.2 or later. The free Kontakt Player only runs it in a time-limited demo mode.
It does not appear in the Libraries tab. Load it from the File browser tab, or import it into the Kontakt database or Quickload. The sample folders are unlocked, so the WAVs work in other samplers.
System requirements: Windows 7 or higher, or Mac OS X 10.12 or higher, with a dual core CPU and 2 GB of RAM. A SATA or SSD drive is recommended.
Yes. The Cylindrum Black Friday deal takes 50% off Soundiron's Kontakt library, bringing it to $24.50, and it runs until Dec 6, 2026.
Three variations of the instrument: dry small, dry fat and wet. Together they hold 3,367 samples, 13 sound-designed atmospheric ambiences, a Kontakt FX rack with 18 DSP modules, an arpeggiator, an LFO system and 12 filter types.
No. It is an open-format library that needs the full retail version of Kontakt 6.2.2 or later. The free Player only runs it in a time-limited demo mode. The sample directories are unlocked for use in other WAV-compatible samplers.
Windows 7 or higher, or Mac OS X 10.12 or higher. Soundiron lists a dual core CPU and 2 GB of RAM, and recommends a SATA or SSD drive. The library takes up 1.76 GB installed.
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