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The Dhol Drum Black Friday deal puts Soundiron's two-drum Punjabi dhol library for Kontakt at $29.50, 50% off, until Dec 6, 2026.
The dhol is a closed-shell, barrel-shaped drum with a curved body. It is played as an accompanying instrument in Punjabi Bhangra and in the religious music of Sufism.
Soundiron sampled a pair of full-sized drums, one larger and one smaller, each with its own tuning and character.
The library holds 5,147 samples and more than 110 distinct articulations. Players used sticks, mallets, brushes, hands, fingers and palms, all recorded up close in Soundiron's studio.
The contents are split between the bass head and the treble head:
Wooden clacks were also recorded over different areas of the drum bodies.
Both drums have goatskin bass heads and synthetic mylar treble heads. The bass head is tuned with one heavy nylon rope wound through steel rings, while the treble head uses steel lugs and rods like most modern percussion.
The dhol is usually played in a frantic style at loud dynamics, but Soundiron set out to capture every nuance. The dynamic range runs from the softest finger articulations to hard stick strikes, with up to 14 velocity layers and 10 round robins per note.
The treble head covers a lot of ground. Depending on drum size, tuning, mallet type, strike position and playing style, it gives anything from small timbale-like tones to aggressive, snare-like hits.
The library goes further than raw samples and adds tools for assembling and performing parts:
The library takes up 2.07 GB once installed (1.3 GB to download) and comes with 10 unlocked.nki files. Samples are 24-bit / 44.1 kHz stereo PCM wav.
It runs on Windows 7 or later and Mac OS X 10.6 or later. A dual-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM are required, and Soundiron recommends a SATA or SSD drive.
You need the full version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.1 or above. In the free Kontakt Player it only runs in demo mode.
Yes. The Dhol Drum Black Friday deal takes the Soundiron Kontakt library to $29.50, which is 50% off, until Dec 6, 2026. It is a sample library of two Punjabi dhols, one larger and one smaller, delivered as Kontakt instruments.
It has 5,147 samples and more than 110 articulations across bass and treble heads, plus wooden clacks. Tools include the Megamixer, a dual-layer tuned percussion builder, Ensemble presets, the Uberpeggiator, rack DSP effects and 22 ambient textures.
No. The library needs the full version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.1 or above. In the free Kontakt Player it only runs in demo mode. It comes as 10 unlocked.nki files with 24-bit / 44.1 kHz stereo wav samples.
Soundiron recorded up to 14 velocity layers and 10 round robins per note. The dynamic range runs from the softest finger articulations to hard stick strikes, across two dhols of different sizes with their own tuning.
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