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The Kantele Black Friday deal from Have Audio is 70% off, which brings this Kontakt instrument bundle to $14.70 until Dec 7, 2026.
The kantele is a traditional plucked string instrument from Finland, part of the zither and lap harp family. Have Audio deep-sampled an 11-string kantele, played with fingers and with a pick, and packaged it in their usual 3 Double Espresso blends.
The bundle holds 3 distinct flavours of Kantele and a bonus synth. Each one is a Kontakt instrument with its own playable articulations, textures and built-in sound design FX.
Each instrument loads from a single.nki file.
The Acoustic instrument covers a chromatic range from A3 to D5, plus extended range, harmonics and glissandos. The physical instrument is tuned A, B, C#, D, E, F#, G, A, B, C#, D.
Eight key switches/sound banks switch between the playing styles:
It uses up to 2 dynamic layers and 5 round robins, with 470 samples at 822.3 MB uncompressed.
The custom built-in FX are Octaves, which blends upper or lower octaves into the original sound, Ad Libitum, an aleatoric granular delay, and Delay Sea Waves, an impulse response FX that adds movement.
Dystopian is built for dark and scary textures. It has 2 key switches/sound banks, Scary Textures and Creepy textures.
Its built-in FX list is Low Subtle Drone for a constant underlying drone, Spooky FX to add creepiness, Hybrid Reverb Shadow to mirror and deform the original sound, and Supporter, an impulse response FX that adds body.
The third flavour has its own FX list: Ad Libitum, Synthetic Octaves, Trails and Delay. Synthetic Octaves blends higher octaves in to make the sound richer and wider, and Trails adds sustain.
The bundle requires the full version of KONTAKT 6.5.2 or newer. Have Audio recommends 8 GB of RAM or more.
The bundle will not work with the free Kontakt Player. If you only run the free Player, this Kantele plugin will not load.
According to the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic, the first kantele was crafted by the shaman Väinämöinen, who used a giant pike's jawbone for the body and strung it with strands of hair. In the story, its sound was so beautiful that every living thing wept at the first notes.
Yes. The Kantele Black Friday deal is 70% off, which makes the Kontakt bundle $14.70 until Dec 7, 2026. It contains 3 flavours of the instrument and a bonus synth.
Inside the package you get three separate versions of Kantele, plus an extra synth instrument. KANTELE Double Espresso Acoustic and Dystopian are two of them. Each instrument loads from a single.nki file and has its own built-in FX.
The Acoustic instrument has 8 key switches/sound banks: normal and extended range played with fingers, the same two played with a pick, harmonics with fingers and with a pick, and glissandos down and up.
No. The bundle needs the full version of KONTAKT 6.5.2 or newer and will not work with the free Kontakt Player. Have Audio recommends 8 GB of RAM or more.
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