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Hopkin Instrumentarium: Squiggly Amejewar Black Friday pricing is $19.50, 50% off, until Dec 6, 2026, on Soundiron's Kontakt library of a custom four-string wooden instrument with a buzzing bridge.
The instrument has strings about seven feet long, which the maker says is what makes the buzz work best. A flat-sided slide plays them, and changing how that flat side meets the strings shifts the buzz as the note sustains.
Soundiron points to the Indian sitar, the tamboura and the Kenyan obokano as the best-known buzzing-bridge instruments. The maker says Squiggly leans raunchy, with a sustained, multifaceted tone of its own.
Every scale tone was recorded two ways. Straight takes have no vibrato, just the shifting spectrum of buzzing overtones. Modulated takes add colour through small slide movements while the note rings.
Three stereo mic positions are sampled: Close mics, Pickups and Contact mics. Plucks, glisses and FX are available in all of them, so you can mix the layers together.
Each note has up to 8x round robin and 6 velocity layers.
An LFO system lets you pick the shape, the modulation target, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in time. You can also choose from 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters. Several sources can drive the modulation: how hard you hit a key, the mod wheel, expression, channel pressure, where on the keyboard you play, and values read from a step sequencer table.
The arpeggiator has a velocity table, with controls for direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. A key and scale lock keeps your notes inside common scales and keys, which helps with melodic writing and live playing.
The library needs the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt, version 6.5 or newer. The free Kontakt Player and the Add Library import process do not support it.
Yes. The Black Friday deal is 50% off, bringing Squiggly Amejewar to $19.50, and it ends Dec 6, 2026. It is Soundiron's Kontakt library of a four-string wooden instrument with a buzzing bridge.
It has 21 Kontakt.nki presets and 5,532 stereo samples in unlocked.WAV format. There are pluck, gliss and FX articulations in three mic positions, plus 20 ambient pads and drones made from the source recordings. Installed size is 11.1 GB.
No. The.nki presets need the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt, version 6.5 or newer. The free Kontakt Player and the Add Library import process do not support this library.
Three stereo mic positions are sampled: Close mics, Pickups and Contact mics. Plucks, glisses and FX are in all of them. Notes have up to 8x round robin and 6 velocity layers.
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