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Lamellophones Black Friday pricing takes 50% off this Soundiron Kontakt library of 17 experimental instruments, which brings it to $99.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
All the instruments come from Bart Hopkin, a builder who has been designing and constructing unusual acoustic instruments since 1974. His Hopkin Instrumentarium now holds over 110 original creations.
The library gathers every Hopkin collection Soundiron has released so far. It adds two instruments you won't find anywhere else in the catalogue: Cat's Face and CÍque.
The included instruments are:
Every instrument is built from wood and steel, and each one has its own organic tonal character. The maker says you get multiple microphone positions per instrument, plus hundreds of ambient soundscapes created from the source recordings.
Soundiron recorded plucks, bowed shorts, bowed sustains, glisses, percussion and FX across the 17 instruments. That adds up to 61,041 stereo samples at 24-bit, 48 kHz, stored in lossless NCW format.
The interface uses a modular 4-layer GUI. Automation-ready controls cover swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching, cross-fading and layering.
The LFO system lets you pick the shape, modulation target, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in time. Twelve filter types are on offer, covering lowpass, high-pass and FX flavours, and their settings can be steered by playing velocity, the mod wheel, expression, aftertouch, where a note sits on the keyboard, or the step-sequencer table.
The arpeggiator has a velocity table and settings for direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. A key and scale lock keeps your notes inside common scales and keys, which helps with melodic writing and live playing.
The FX rack has 10 slots and 18 DSP modules you can load in any order. The modules include phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ and a rotator.
The convolution reverb carries 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces. Another 40 custom FX impulses are there for pushing the tail somewhere stranger.
Over 100 custom FX presets are included, among them 20 sound-designed ones, along with factory FX rack chain presets to start from.
The library ships as 26 master NKI banks for the free Kontakt Player, version 6.1 or later (VST, AU, AAX). It works with the Kontakt Libraries browser, Komplete Kontrol, S-Series keyboards and NKS hardware and software, and installs through Native Access.
It takes 32 GB of disk space. Windows 7 or higher or Mac OSX 10.12 or higher is required, along with a dual-core CPU and 3+ GB of RAM. The maker recommends a SATA or SSD drive. The library is a digital download, so you need a broadband connection.
Yes. The Lamellophones Black Friday deal takes 50% off Soundiron's Kontakt library, bringing it to $99.50, and it runs until Dec 6, 2026. It is a digital download for the free Kontakt Player.
Lamellophones has 17 instruments by Bart Hopkin. They include Tines & Echoes, Rattletines, Woodentines, Metaltines, Miago Trod, Rumba Boxes and The U, plus Cat's Face and CÍque, which are exclusive to this product. It comes as 26 master NKI banks.
Yes. It is made for the free Kontakt Player, version 6.1 or later, which runs as VST, AU or AAX. It also works with Komplete Kontrol, S-Series keyboards and NKS hardware and software from Native Instruments.
The library takes 32 GB installed. Soundiron lists Windows 7 or higher or Mac OSX 10.12 or higher, a dual-core CPU and 3+ GB of RAM. A SATA or SSD drive is recommended, and the download needs broadband.
Prices and end dates are checked at publishing time and can change, so confirm them at the store before you buy.