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Hopkin Instrumentarium: Tines & Echoes Black Friday pricing cuts 50% off this Kontakt instrument by Soundiron, which brings it to $19.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
It is a sampled version of a hand-built tuned percussion instrument designed by Bart Hopkin. The instrument is a pentagonal sound box fitted with 25 chromatically tuned metal tines.
Each tine has a pair of sympathetic strings running across the sound board. Those strings are tuned at random rather than to their own tine, so a pluck sets off string combinations tied to other tines.
The result is a sharp, crisp water-drop note followed by a soft ghostly ring across the whole instrument. The maker compares that wash to the undamped top octave of a piano.
Soundiron sampled tine plucks and percussive hand slaps on the instrument body, each with two stereo mic positions. The library also adds sound-designed ambient and cinematic material built from the raw acoustic source.
Contents: a chromatic set of 25 plucked notes recorded from two mic placements, plus percussive knock sounds. Another 23 ambient textures, pads and drones were built from the recorded material, alongside 20 sound-designed FX and ambient presets. Everything loads through 1 master NKI instrument bank and comes to 3,373 stereo samples at 24-bit, 48 kHz in lossless NCW format, taking up 4.05 GB once installed.
The interface carries automation-ready controls for swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching, cross-fading and layering.
The LFO has a selectable shape, target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in time. You can pick from 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, and assign modulation to velocity, modwheel, expression, after-touch, 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, which helps with melodic writing and live playing.
The modular FX rack offers 18 DSP modules across 10 slots, in any order you choose. Modules include phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ and rotator.
The reverb module ships with 99 convolution impulse responses of rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses for heavier transformation. Factory FX rack chain presets give you a starting point.
The library runs in the free Kontakt Player or the full version of Kontakt, version 6 or later, as a VST, AU or AAX instrument. It appears in the Kontakt Libraries browser and works with Native Access, Komplete Kontrol and all S-Series keyboards.
Windows 7 or higher and Mac OS X 10.12 or higher are supported. The maker recommends a dual-core CPU, 3 GB or more of RAM and a SATA or SSD drive. It is a digital download, so you need a broadband connection.
Yes. The Black Friday deal takes 50% off this Soundiron Kontakt library, which brings it to $19.50. The offer ends Dec 6, 2026.
You get 25 chromatic plucked notes with two mic positions, percussive knock effects, 23 ambient effects, pads and drones, and 20 sound-designed FX and ambient presets. It is delivered as one master NKI bank with 3,373 stereo samples.
Yes. It is licensed for the free Kontakt Player, version 6 or later, and also runs in the full retail Kontakt. It loads as a VST, AU or AAX instrument and registers through the Native Instruments Service Center app.
The instrument has 25 metal tines, each paired with sympathetic strings that are tuned randomly instead of to their own tine. Plucking a tine sets other strings ringing, giving a crisp water-drop attack and a soft, ghostly resonance across the instrument.
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