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Drone Flutes Black Friday pricing is $44.50, 50% off, until Dec 6, 2026, for Soundiron's Kontakt library of Central American drone flutes in the Mayan, Aztec and Zapotec traditions.
Soundiron made it with sound practitioner René Jenkins. He played six of his favorite 2, 3 and 4-chambered flutes in the cathedral-like St Paul's Church in San Francisco.
The maker lists cinematic scoring, game music, atmospheric songwriting, folk and sound design as the uses.
The Drone Flutes plugin covers six instruments, each with its own range:
Soundiron recorded chromatic articulations: sustains, staccatos, true legato, chirps, swells, trills and flutters. Improvised phrases and effects are in there too.
Every flute was captured from three positions, so you can blend them to build a chamber ensemble.
René also played over 3,000 melodic phrases. They are sorted by flute type, tempo (80, 90, 100, 110, 120 and 140 bpm), key and style.
Trigger them from your keyboard or sequence them in the phrase sequencer, with control over tempo, offset, release and pitch.
The interface has automation-ready controls for swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching, cross-fading and layering.
There is an LFO with selectable shape, target, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in. You also get 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, and these can be modulated by velocity, modwheel, expression, aftertouch, key position or the step-sequencer table.
The arpeggiator has a velocity table and controls for direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. A key and scale lock keeps your notes inside common scales.
The FX rack offers 18 DSP modules across 10 slots, in any order. It includes phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ and a rotator.
The convolution reverb carries 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses. Add 20 sound-designed FX presets and a bank of FX rack chain presets to start from.
The library ships as 27.nki presets for full retail Kontakt 5.5 or above, plus 20 ambience patches built from the source recordings. Samples are 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav, 5,763 stereo files in all, 9.72 GB installed.
It will not run in full inside the free Kontakt Player. There it stays in demo mode.
On the system side: Windows 7 or higher, or Mac OSX 10.9 or higher, a dual-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM. Soundiron recommends a SATA or SSD drive.
Yes. The Drone Flutes Black Friday deal takes Soundiron's Kontakt library to $44.50, which is 50% off, and it runs until Dec 6, 2026.
Six Central American drone flutes, each played in Close, Mid and Far mic positions, with over 3,000 phrases. You also get 27.nki presets, 20 ambience patches, 20 sound-designed FX presets, and an FX rack with convolution reverb.
No, not in full. The library needs the full version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or above. In the free Kontakt Player it only opens in demo mode.
It takes 9.72 GB installed, as 24 bit / 48 kHz wav samples. You need Windows 7 or higher, or Mac OSX 10.9 or higher, with a dual-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM. An SSD or SATA drive is recommended.
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