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The Eko Panda Black Friday deal from Soundiron comes to $14.50 after 50% off, running until Dec 6, 2026. It's a Kontakt instrument built from a vintage 61-key Italian synth, sampled for old-school leads and pads.
The original Panda 61 Piano was made by the Italian electronics company Eko in the 1960s and early 70s. It was sold as an electric piano, but inside it's an early monophonic synthesizer with basic waveforms.
Those waveforms were set up to loosely approximate an e-piano, harpsichord, horns, strings and winds. Soundiron says the library captures the nostalgic character of that era.
Soundiron recorded 7 core voices, each with infinite sustains and tight staccatos. On top of that, the maker built sound-designed material from the raw source.
The source was recorded dry in a studio with a pair of Neumann TLM 103 large diaphragm mics.
The interface gives you Volume, Attack, Release, Transient Offset, Vibrato and Octave layering. The Octave knob gradually blends in a lower and higher octave doubling for more body.
The Glide slider switches the playing mode. Push it up for monophonic legato and portamento leads, or drop it to 0 for standard polyphonic play.
The LFO system lets you pick the shape, target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in time. There are 13 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, with modulation from velocity, modwheel, expression, aftertouch, key position or the step-sequencer table.
The arpeggiator has a built-in velocity sequencer table. You control direction, note timing, swing, randomization and duration.
The DSP rack includes EQ, filter, phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, and amp and speaker simulation. The convolution reverb ranges from cathedrals, churches, halls and chambers to bunkers, garages and tunnels, plus effect impulses for stranger sounds.
This is a Kontakt library for the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or later. In the free Kontakt Player it only runs in demo mode.
It installs at 1.19 GB with 894 stereo samples in 24 bit / 48kHz uncompressed wav. The wav files are unlocked, so you can import them into almost any wav-compatible plugin or DAW.
System requirements are Windows 7 or higher, or Mac OSX 10.9 or higher. You need a dual-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM, and a SATA or SSD drive is recommended. It's a digital download, so you need a broadband connection.
Yes. The Eko Panda Black Friday deal takes 50% off Soundiron's Kontakt library, bringing it to $14.50. The offer runs until Dec 6, 2026.
Eko Panda has 2 main instrument presets, 20 custom sound-designed FX and ambient presets, and 40 synth patches, pads, drones and atmospheres. It covers 7 core voices with sustains and staccatos, plus a convolution reverb with 119 impulses.
No. It needs the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5.2 or above. In the free Kontakt Player it only runs in demo mode. Its wav samples are unlocked, so you can import them into almost any wav-compatible plugin or DAW.
It's sampled from the Panda 61 Piano, a 61-key synthesizer made by Eko in the 1960s and early 70s. It was sold as an electric piano, but inside it's an early monophonic synth. Soundiron recorded it dry with two Neumann TLM 103 microphones.
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