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The Hyperion Strings Ensemble Black Friday deal takes 50% off Soundiron's 30-piece Kontakt string library, bringing it to $149.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
The maker calls it a complete orchestral string and sound-design library. It covers articulations, special FX and adaptive playing controls in one instrument.
It is a Kontakt library of a 30-player string ensemble, split into compact divisi sections. The sections run through a 12-layer slot system, so you can stack up large symphonic groupings quickly.
The ensemble is made up of 8 1st Violins, 7 2nd Violins, 6 Violas, 5 Cellos and 4 Double-basses. Each section offers fingered and glissando true legato, vibrato, clean and tremolo sustains, long and short notes, expression options, specialty bowings and aleatoric effects.
The shorts include long and dotted 8th-note staccatos, 16th and 32nd-note short staccatos, 32nd and 64th-note spiccatos, loose and tight pizzicato plucks, Bartok pitz and Col Legno taps. All of them come with round-robin, velocity/swell and auto-switching.
Expressions add dozens of crescendos, decrescendos, sforzandos and swells, with release-triggering, tempo-sync and time-stretching. The A-B Blend, Offset, Attack and Release controls let you shape them into longer movements.
Chromatic and aleatoric effects cover flautando, ponticello, harmonics, trills, runs, clusters and stabs. The 1st Violins also carry Sordino articulations, including true legato and portamento.
The interface is a single wide window with simple menus, easy routing and fast presets. The library offers a Performance mode, legato that adapts to how you play, quick speed changes between short notes, blending that keeps vibrato tidy, and automatic bowing, all meant to make playing easier.
Switching between playing styles is handled through quick key-switch mapping, A-B groups, layered velocities, crossfades and a Niente fade control, according to the developer. The Arpeggio editor handles sequencing, and Play-Assist keeps you in key.
The Effects and Space tabs shape tone, player positioning and the room. The maker describes four mic mixes:
The library has 72.nki presets for Ensemble, 1st Violins, 2nd Violins, Violas, Cellos and Basses. It also ships with articulation maps, seating arrangements, arpeggio patterns and FX chains.
It holds 157,567 samples, 24-bit 48 kHz stereo PCM WAV, with direct sample access. Installed size is 139 GB, with an 81 GB compressed download.
It runs in the free Kontakt Player or in full Kontakt 8.2 or later, as a VST, AU or AAX instrument plugin. Owners of the Hyperion Strings Elements or Micro editions can get upgrade discounts to Ensemble by contacting Soundiron.
Yes. The Hyperion Strings Ensemble Black Friday deal takes 50% off, so the Kontakt library costs $149.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
A 30-player string ensemble: 8 1st Violins, 7 2nd Violins, 6 Violas, 5 Cellos and 4 Double-basses. It comes with 72.nki presets, articulation maps, seating arrangements, arpeggio patterns and FX chains.
Yes. The library is licensed for the free Kontakt Player, and it also runs in full Kontakt version 8.2 or later. Both load it as a VST, AU or AAX instrument plugin.
The compressed download is 81 GB and the library takes 139 GB once installed. It holds 157,567 samples in 24-bit, 48 kHz stereo PCM WAV, with direct sample access.
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