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Jewel Empire II is a Soundiron Kontakt library sampled from the GEM Imperial II electronic organ, and the Jewel Empire II Black Friday deal takes 50% off, which brings it to $14.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
The GEM Imperial II was built by GeneralMusic in Italy in the late 80s and early 90s. It is a large organ with two keybeds, a wide range of voice tabs, a dedicated Bass voice section and drawbars for many voice functions.
The library covers the instrument's sustains and staccatos, in both normal and bass versions. Soundiron also built twenty evolving atmospheric pads from the source recordings.
The wav samples are unlocked, so you can load them into almost any wav-compatible plugin or DAW.
John Valasis recorded the instrument. He is a Greek-born composer, producer and sound designer working from an Athens studio, and he records as Poordream. The session used a pair of Neumann TLM 103 large-diaphragm mics plus a direct line in, in a dry studio, with the articulations captured in wide stereo.
The interface gives you Volume, Attack, Release, Transient Offset, Vibrato and Octave layering. The Octave knob blends in a lower and a higher octave doubling for more body.
The Glide slider switches the instrument to monophonic legato and portamento leads. Set it to 0 and you are back to standard polyphonic playing.
The LFO lets you pick the shape, modulation target, speed, intensity, tempo-sync and fade-in time. Thirteen lowpass, high-pass and FX filters are on hand, and each can be driven by velocity, modwheel, expression, after-touch, key position or a step-sequencer table.
The arpeggiator is customizable. It has a built-in velocity sequencer table and controls for direction, note timing, swing, randomization and duration.
A full DSP rack sits inside the instrument. It holds EQ, filter, phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and speaker simulation and more.
The convolution reverb carries 119 impulses: cathedrals, churches, chambers, rooms, halls, bunkers, garages and tunnels, plus special effect impulses for stranger treatments.
You need the full version of Kontakt 5.5 or later. The free Kontakt Player leaves the library stuck in demo mode.
Windows 7 or higher and Mac OSX 10.9 or higher are supported. Soundiron lists a dual-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM, and recommends a SATA or SSD drive.
Yes. The Jewel Empire II Black Friday deal takes 50% off Soundiron's Kontakt library, bringing it to $14.50. The deal ends Dec 6, 2026. It is the same library with the same contents, just at the reduced price.
You get 3 open-format Kontakt.nki instruments, 20 ambience patches built from the source recordings, synth sustains, staccatos and FX pads, and 20 sound-designed FX and ambient presets. That adds up to 6,973 stereo samples at 7.5 GB installed.
No. Soundiron says the full version of Kontakt 5.5 or later is required. Loading the library in the free Kontakt Player leaves it stuck in demo mode, so you need the full Kontakt version on your machine.
It is sampled from the GEM Imperial II, a large electronic organ made by GeneralMusic in Italy in the late 80s and early 90s. It has two keybeds, voice tabs, a dedicated Bass voice section and drawbars.
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