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The Iron Throne Black Friday deal covers Soundiron's dark metallic percussion library for Kontakt, 50% off at $14.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
The maker describes it as an eerie collection of metallic percussive and semi-melodic effects. Target uses are horror and suspense scoring, sound design, trailer effects, post-production, and experimental or ambient music.
What the instrument actually is stays a secret. Soundiron ran a contest where over 130 people guessed at its origins, and the answer was never revealed.
Soundiron says they beat and played the thing hard, using a long list of tools:
Viola bows on the throne edges produce the eerie melodic and dissonant tones. The bowed sets include long sustains, medium gliss effects, short staccato, spiccato and tremolo sustains.
Finger drags, rubber ball rubs and flat mallet rubs were made by pulling mallet edges or fingers along the surfaces in long arcs. The instrument resonates much like a rubbed gong. Strikes come from wooden, felt and metal-tipped mallets and sticks.
Iron Throne 2.0 adds new ambiences, drones and atmospheric pads built from the raw source recordings, plus 20 custom FX presets.
The interface has automation-ready controls for swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching, cross-fading and layering. An LFO system offers selectable shape, modulation target, speed, intensity, tempo-sync and fade-in time.
Iron Throne includes 12 filters covering low-pass, high-pass and FX types, and you can steer them from velocity, the mod wheel, expression, aftertouch, keyboard position or a step-sequencer table. The arpeggiator has a velocity table and controls for direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. A key and scale lock keeps notes inside common scales.
The FX rack has 18 DSP modules across 10 slots, in any order. You get phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ and a rotator. The convolution reverb carries 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses.
You need the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or later. It's a standard open-format Kontakt library, so the free Kontakt Player only runs it in demo mode.
The sample folders are unlocked, so the WAVs work in other wav-compatible samplers and synths. The Libraries tab doesn't support it, but the File browser tab and the Quickload window do.
System requirements: Windows 7 or higher, or Mac OSX 10.9 or higher, a dual-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM. Soundiron recommends a SATA or SSD drive.
Yes. The Iron Throne Black Friday deal takes 50% off Soundiron's Kontakt library, bringing it to $14.50. The offer runs until Dec 6, 2026.
Iron Throne ships as one master NKI bank with bowed sustains, stabs, FX, brush, finger, comb, rubber, felt and wooden mallet rubs and strikes. It adds 30 ambience patches, 20 custom FX presets and 899 stereo WAV files at 24 bit / 48 kHz.
No. It's an open-format Kontakt library, so the free Player only runs it in a limited demo mode. You need the full retail Kontakt 5.5 or later. The sample directories are unlocked, so the WAVs can also be used in other wav-compatible samplers.
The FX rack holds 18 DSP modules across 10 slots. Convolution reverb offers 99 spaces and 40 FX impulses. You also get an LFO, 12 filters, an arpeggiator, key and scale lock, and controls for swell, attack, release and pitch.
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