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Cymbology Black Friday pricing is $39.50, 50% off, until Dec 6, 2026, for Soundiron's bowed cymbal and gong effects library for Kontakt.
It is a percussion effects instrument built for dark scoring and sound design work.
Soundiron recorded 20 unique cymbals in a spread of shapes, sizes and alloys. The list runs from crashes and splashes to gongs, bells and trashes, plus a stack of spent WWII Howitzer artillery shells.
The bowed cymbal effect is the core of the library. Each cymbal has dozens of variations, from short stabs to long tortured wails.
The maker pitches these sounds at setting dark moods, striking bold transitions, building stingers and weaving soundscapes.
Soundiron also put dry ice on the cymbal surfaces. The squeals, hisses, screeches, drones, screams, rumbles and wails that came out are a different flavour from the bowed sounds.
Whether sustained or short, every cymbal effect was captured from two distances: a close placement that delivers detailed, present, dry sound, and a distant placement in a big hall that brings natural reverb suited to epic orchestral writing.
The interface has multi-layer controls with LFO, filter, glide and an arpeggiator. A full FX rack adds convolution reverb with custom rooms, halls, chambers and FX environments.
That gives you plenty of room to bend the raw recordings after you load them. Stretch a bowed gong into a drone, or sequence short stabs with the arpeggiator.
You need the full version of Kontakt 5.5 or later. In the free Kontakt Player, the instrument stays stuck in demo mode.
Soundiron lists Windows 7 or higher and Mac OS X 10.9 or higher. A dual-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM are listed, and a SATA or SSD drive is recommended.
The library is delivered as a download through the Amazon S3 cloud network, so you need a broadband connection to fetch it.
Yes. Cymbology, Soundiron's bowed cymbal library for Kontakt, is 50% off for Black Friday, bringing it to $39.50. The deal runs until Dec 6, 2026.
Cymbology has one master NKI bank, 2,216 stereo WAV files at 24 bit / 48 kHz, 138 Ambience patches and 20 sound-designed FX and Ambient presets. The library installs at 6.15 GB.
Yes. Cymbology needs the full version of Kontakt 5.5 or later. The free Kontakt Player leaves the instrument in demo mode, so it will not run as a full instrument there.
Cymbology holds bowed cymbal and gong effects: short stabs, long wails, plus squeals, hisses, drones and rumbles from dry-ice recordings. Each comes in a close mic position and a large-hall position.
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