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The Harpsichord Black Friday deal puts Soundiron's Kontakt library of an 18th Century Italian Bizzi instrument at $34.50, 50% off, until Dec 6, 2026.
The harpsichord was a European keyboard staple from the 16th to the mid 18th century. It carried Renaissance and Baroque music as both accompanist and soloist, and nearly every Baroque composer wrote for it.
The source is a Bizzi harpsichord owned by Claudia Ferrero, a teacher and renaissance performer. It was recorded in a warm studio in San Raffaele Cimena, Italy, so the sound of the room is part of the capture.
Two stereo mic positions are on offer: Bridge and Soundboard. The recorded material covers:
The strings are plucked with quills, not struck by hammers, so a key can only produce one velocity. That is how the original instrument behaves.
Soundiron also made 20 ambient pads and evolving drones from the raw acoustic source, plus 20 custom sound-designed FX and ambient presets.
You get automation-ready controls for swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching, cross-fading and layering. An LFO section offers selectable shape, modulation target, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in time.
The filter section has 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters. Parameters can be driven by how hard you play, the mod wheel, expression, channel pressure, where a note sits on the keyboard, or a table in the step sequencer.
An arpeggiator adds a velocity table and settings for direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. A key and scale lock keeps your notes inside common scales and keys.
The FX rack holds 27 DSP modules across 8 slots, in any order. Modules include phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ and rotator.
The convolution reverb carries 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses. Factory FX rack chain presets are included.
The free Kontakt Player does not support this library. It will sit in demo mode there, so you need the full version of Kontakt.
Yes. The Harpsichord Black Friday deal takes 50% off Soundiron's Kontakt library, bringing it to $34.50. The offer ends Dec 6, 2026.
It includes 22 Kontakt.nki presets, 3,448 stereo samples at 24 bit / 48 kHz, and 5.37 GB installed. Content covers piano and forte registers, glisses, percussion and SFX in Bridge and Soundboard mic positions, plus 20 ambient pads and drones and 20 FX presets.
No. It needs the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 6.2.2 or later. The free Kontakt Player and the Add Library import process don't support it, and the instrument stays in demo mode there.
You can shape swell, attack, release, vibrato, filter and pitch, and use the LFO, arpeggiator and key and scale lock. The FX rack offers 27 DSP modules in 8 slots, and the convolution reverb carries 99 spaces plus 40 FX impulses.
Prices and end dates are checked at publishing time and can change, so confirm them at the store before you buy.