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Hi Fives Black Friday pricing is 50% off, which brings Soundiron's body, hand and mouth percussion library for Kontakt to $14.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
Hi Fives is a Kontakt instrument built from over 9,000 recordings of Soundiron founder Mike Peaslee slapping, snapping, clapping and beatboxing. It captures 9,097 stereo samples in two microphone positions, with up to 16 velocity layers per articulation.
The maker pitches it for everything from rock to trap.
Hi Fives sorts its sources into three families. Body covers slaps captured on the cheek, thigh, belly, chest and arm, with up to 12 round robin takes each. Hands holds snaps, flicks, claps, punches, swipes and scrub sustains. Mouth gathers vocal noises such as tongue drops, lip tweedles, gasps, exhales, grunts and heaves, plus popping, clicking, swishing, spitting, kissing and smacking sounds, and even a full drum kit built entirely from the mouth. Any articulation can be layered into an ensemble, remapped to other keys or randomized. Soundiron's own description of that feature is an army of Peaslees.
The round robins and deep velocity layering are there to stop repeated hits from sounding machine-gunned, so a pattern you program reads like someone performing it.
On top of the raw performances, Soundiron added 20 ambient soundscapes made from the same source recordings. There are also 20 custom FX presets, which the maker offers as starting points for beats.
The interface has multi-layer controls with an LFO, a filter, glide and an arpeggiator. A full FX rack includes convolution reverb with custom rooms, halls, chambers and FX environments.
That means you can take a slap or a snap and push it into a pitched, filtered or arpeggiated pattern without leaving the instrument.
The library ships as one master NKI instrument bank in open Kontakt format. The samples are 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM WAV, and the install is 1.52 GB.
It needs the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or later. The free Kontakt Player and the Add Library import process do not support this open-format library, and the instrument stays in demo mode there.
System requirements from the maker:
A fast drive helps with a sample library that streams many velocity layers and round robins.
Yes. The Hi Fives Black Friday deal takes 50% off Soundiron's Kontakt body percussion library, bringing it to $14.50. The offer ends Dec 6, 2026.
Hi Fives has 9,097 stereo samples of body, hand and mouth percussion. It adds 20 ambience patches built from the source recordings and 20 custom FX and ambient presets. It all loads from one master NKI instrument bank.
No. Hi Fives needs the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or later. The free Kontakt Player and the Add Library import process don't support this open-format library, and it stays in demo mode there.
Body hits include arm, chest, belly, thigh and cheek slaps. Hands give you snaps, claps, flicks, punches and swipes. The mouth section covers clicks, pops, spit, gasps and a mouth-made drum kit. Everything can be remapped and randomized.
Prices and end dates are checked at publishing time and can change, so confirm them at the store before you buy.