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Frendo Black Friday pricing takes this Soundiron Kontakt instrument to $19.50, 50% off, with the deal running until Dec 6, 2026.
Frendo is a custom-built instrument that Soundiron made from scratch and then recorded. The maker says it was meant to suffer, and you can mistreat it the same way with screwdrivers, bows, drum sticks, mallets and fingers.
Frendo is built around a knotty pine frame, fitted with corroded baling wire, hooks, eye bolts, deck screws, hurricane brackets and a vintage 24" bass drum. It stood 8 feet long and 3 feet wide, with five strings.
The body has a 26" spine and two separate segments, so it could be torqued and bent while someone played it. The black iron bailing wire runs over galvanized steel angle brackets and plates. Heavy gauge eye bolts served as tuners, turned with a pipe wrench.
It works as a mallet instrument, recorded with wooden and rubber mallets. It also behaves like a string instrument, since Soundiron recorded finger plucks and bows.
The source material covers strikes, creaks, scrapes, shrieks, plucks, dongs, tremolos and vibratos. The maker pitches the result at composers hunting for disturbing, horror-leaning textures.
Soundiron also points to sound design work: stingers, trailers, reveals, slates and post production.
For version 3.0, Soundiron remastered the samples and moved them into its four-layer modular template. It then built 40 new ambient pads and soundscapes from the raw recordings, plus 20 custom FX presets.
The library installs at 2.08 GB and holds 1,227 stereo samples, all 24-bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM.wav files.
It runs on Windows 7 or higher and Mac OSX 10.9 or higher. A dual-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM are the baseline, and the maker recommends a SATA or SSD drive.
You need the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or later to load the.nki presets. The free Kontakt Player and the Add Library import process do not support this open-format library.
Yes. The Frendo Black Friday deal is 50% off, which brings the Soundiron Kontakt instrument to $19.50. The offer ends Dec 6, 2026.
One master NKI instrument bank in open Kontakt format, 52 ambience patches, and 25 custom sound-designed FX and ambient presets. The library also has a full FX rack with convolution reverb, and it installs at 2.08 GB.
No. Soundiron says the free Kontakt Player and the Add Library import process do not support this open-format library. You need the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or later to load the.nki instrument presets.
The instrument comes from Soundiron, who put it together out of salvaged and hardware-store parts: pine boards with knots, corroded steel wire, brackets, screws, hooks and bolts, plus a worn 24-inch kick drum. It was recorded with a violin bow, screwdrivers, rubber and wooden mallets, picks, hands and fingers.
Prices and end dates are checked at publishing time and can change, so confirm them at the store before you buy.