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Hapi Drums Black Friday pricing runs 50% off, which puts this four-drum steel tongue library for Kontakt at $34.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
The instruments were built by Grahm Doe and Tricia Kelly at their workshop in Oakhurst, CA, and Soundiron sampled them for this release.
Hapi Drums is a Kontakt library of four steel tongue drums. The maker describes the tone as a smooth fundamental wrapped in a haze of complex harmonics, with a long, mellow sustain.
Soundiron captured each drum with a wide stereo pair of Neumann TLM 103 large-diaphragm mics and a binaural Rode NT-SF1. That gives you two distinct tonal options.
The four drums are:
Each drum loads on its own, and you can solo individual tongues. You can also load all of them together as one combined chromatic scale.
Every drum was played three ways: soft rubber mallets, hard metal picks and nylon jazz brushes.
The modular UI lets you mix, layer, retune and reshape each sound. The automation-ready controls cover swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching and cross-fading.
There is an LFO with selectable shape, target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in time. You can also choose from 12 low-pass, high-pass and FX filters, and assign modulation to velocity, modwheel, expression, aftertouch, key position or the step-sequencer table.
The arpeggiator has a velocity table, plus control over direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. A key and scale lock keeps your notes inside common scales and keys.
The FX rack offers 18 DSP modules across 10 slots, in any order you like. Modules include phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ and rotator.
The convolution reverb ships with 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses for more extreme treatments.
The library runs in the free Kontakt Player (6.1 or later) and in full Kontakt 6 or later as VST, AU or AAX. It needs online serial registration through the Native Instruments Service Center app, and it works with Komplete Kontrol, S-Series keyboards and NKS.
The.nki instrument presets need full retail Kontakt 6.2.2 or later. The free Player and its Add Library import do not support them.
System requirements: Windows 7 or higher, or macOS 10.12 or higher. Soundiron lists a dual-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM, and recommends a SATA or SSD drive.
Yes. The Hapi Drums Black Friday deal takes 50% off this Soundiron Kontakt library, which brings it to $34.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
Four steel tongue drums: the low Origin, a pair of mid-range Slim Tuneable models and the treble Tini. Each was sampled with rubber mallets, metal picks and nylon brushes. You also get 2 master presets, 20 FX presets and 133 ambience patches.
Yes, the library is licensed for the free Kontakt Player (6.1 or later) and works in full Kontakt 6 or later as VST, AU or AAX. The.nki instrument presets need full retail Kontakt 6.2.2 or later.
It takes 9.79 GB installed, or 18.5 GB uncompressed, as 24-bit, 48 kHz NCW samples. Soundiron lists Windows 7 or macOS 10.12 or higher, a dual-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM, and recommends a SATA or SSD drive.
Prices and end dates are checked at publishing time and can change, so confirm them at the store before you buy.