Hopkin Instrumentarium: Woodentines Black Friday Deal 2026: $19.50, 50% off

The Hopkin Instrumentarium: Woodentines Black Friday deal takes 50% off, so this Soundiron Kontakt library comes to $19.50 until Dec 6, 2026.

Woodentines samples wooden lamellaphones built by instrument inventor Bart Hopkin. Soundiron describes the sound of all three main instruments as crisp and watery, with a warm wooden character running through each one.

A bonus instrument, Piezo Tongues, sits on top of the main three.

What is in Hopkin Instrumentarium: Woodentines?

The library covers three wooden instruments plus the bonus:

• Bamboo Idiomount: a round bowl shaped like an mbira, with two facing rows of bamboo tines and an open, hollow body that resonates
• Big Wooden Kalimba (also called the Wooden Idiomount): a chromatic set of large wooden tongues bridged over a trapezoidal chamber
• Woodkal (also called Small Wood K): a 3-octave scale of thin, flat wooden tongues over a hollow pentagonal resonance chamber
• Piezo Tongues: the bonus electric instrument

The Bamboo Idiomount is crisp, rich and raspy, with plucked notes and a percussive side slap. It has 3 stereo mic positions: internal, close and room.

The Big Wooden Kalimba has a lush, dreamy tone with deep bass. It offers finger plucks and stick taps on the tongues, plus percussive taps, knocks and glisses, with close and room mics.

The Woodkal covers finger plucks with close and room mics.

How does Piezo Tongues work?

Piezo Tongues clamps a rank of piezoelectric tape strips between wooden blocks. Each strip is cut to vibrate at one frequency, which builds a chromatic scale, and each strip doubles as its own transducer.

Plucked, the strips give a dry, brisk "fwip" or "pop" at a distinct pitch. Soundiron says the result sounds almost like a musical pop-gun ensemble.

The library has tine plucks and percussive hand slaps on the instrument bodies, recorded with two stereo mic positions.

What can you do inside the Kontakt interface?

The sound-shaping controls are automation-ready:

• Swell, attack, release and offset
• Vibrato, filter and pitch (coarse and fine)
• Articulation switching, cross-fading and layering
• An LFO with selectable shape, target, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in
• 12 low-pass, high-pass and FX filters, with modulation from velocity, modwheel, expression, aftertouch, key position or a step-sequencer table
• An arpeggiator with a velocity table and control over direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration
• Key and scale lock

The FX rack holds 18 DSP modules across 10 slots, in any order. Phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ and a rotator are in there. The convolution reverb carries 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses.

On top of the acoustic articulations, the library adds sound-designed textures, pads and tones, so you can layer them under the natural sounds. It ships with 6 master presets and 20 custom FX and ambient presets.

Size and requirements

The library holds 10,280 stereo samples at 24-bit, 48 kHz in lossless NCW format, and takes 1.50 GB once installed.

It runs in the free Kontakt Player (VST, AU, AAX) through the Libraries rack. You need Windows 7 or higher, or OSX 10.12 or higher, a dual core CPU and 3+ GB of RAM. Soundiron recommends a SATA or SSD drive.