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Hopkin Instrumentarium: Miago Trod Black Friday pricing is 50% off, which puts this Kontakt instrument by Soundiron at $19.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
Miago Trod is a sampled giant resonating lamellaphone, an instrument invented by Bart Hopkin. The real thing stands over five feet tall and carries 22 threaded rods in two rows, tuned chromatically and played percussively.
The lower rods are long enough that their fundamentals are subsonic, so what you hear is made of overtones. In the shorter upper rods, one overtone is strong enough to act as the defining pitch while the others blend around it.
The longer lower segment follows a similar overtone pattern, with its main pitch an octave below the upper segment. Strike either one and the two sections interact, which thickens the tone.
Soundiron describes the result as a mysterious, bassy and metallic timbre, aimed at scoring work that needs an unusual voice.
The samples come from one hand-crafted metal lamellophone and cover these playing styles:
Both tuned and untuned articulations are included. Soundiron also added sound-designed textures, pads and tones that move past the acoustic source. You can play, layer, modulate and blend them with the natural articulations.
The library holds 2,907 stereo samples in 24-bit, 48 kHz lossless NCW format. It installs at 3.72 GB (6.73 GB uncompressed) and ships with 1 master preset and 20 custom sound-designed FX and ambient presets.
The controls are automation-ready. You can shape swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching, cross-fading and layering.
The rest of the toolset:
The rack covers 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 for heavier sound design.
Hopkin has worked in instrument building, performing, recording, composition, education and ethnomusicological research. He has written ten books on instrument design and optimization. Since 1974 he has built unusual acoustic instruments, and the Hopkin Instrumentarium now counts over 110 original creations.
The library is made for the free Kontakt Player 6.1 or higher. It works with Komplete Kontrol, S-Series keyboards and NKS hardware and software from Native Instruments, and shows up in the Kontakt Libraries browser and Native Access.
It runs on Mac OS X 10.12 or Windows 7 and up, with a dual-core CPU and 3+ GB of RAM. A SATA drive or SSD is recommended, and it arrives as a digital download.
Yes. The Hopkin Instrumentarium: Miago Trod Black Friday deal is 50% off, bringing this Soundiron Kontakt library to $19.50. The deal runs until Dec 6, 2026.
It includes 2,907 stereo samples of a hand-crafted metal lamellophone: mallet strikes, hammer strikes, taps, bounces, slides, knocks and scrapes. You also get 1 master preset, 20 sound-designed FX and ambient presets, plus sound-designed textures, pads and tones.
No. It is made for the free Kontakt Player 6.1 or higher. It also works with Komplete Kontrol, S-Series keyboards and NKS software and hardware, and appears in the Kontakt Libraries browser and Native Access.
There is an LFO system, 12 filters, an arpeggiator and a key and scale lock. The modular FX rack offers 18 DSP modules in 10 slots, and the reverb includes 99 spaces plus 40 custom FX impulses.
Prices and end dates are checked at publishing time and can change, so confirm them at the store before you buy.