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Little Epic Percussion Black Friday pricing takes 50% off this Soundiron Kontakt library, so it comes to $14.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
It is a collection of small orchestral and ethnic percussion instruments, made to sit alongside Soundiron's epic drum libraries.
Soundiron recorded most of the instruments in the same epic hall, with the same techniques as many of its other percussion libraries. The maker expects it to mesh with most of them out of the box.
The instrument list runs from tambourine and finger cymbals to concert triangle, ship's bell, wooden frogs, monkey drum and a Native American rabbit drum. There is also a mixed ensemble set with claves, kalimba, rattles, shakers, vibraslap and bell.
Soundiron says it also works on its own, as a toolbox of under-appreciated but often called-for items.
The maker also went looking for new ways to play these instruments. Some unorthodox articulations are included, plus a few odd combinations and mutations meant to push you into new ideas.
The library specs:
The interface is automation-ready. You can shape swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching, cross-fading and layering.
The LFO has selectable shape, modulation target, speed, intensity, tempo-sync and fade-in time. You can pick from 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, and assign modulation to velocity, modwheel, expression, after-touch, key position or step-sequencer table control.
The arpeggiator has a velocity table and controls for direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. A key and scale lock keeps your notes inside common scales and keys.
The FX rack has 18 DSP modules that you can load into any of 10 slots, in any order. They include phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ and a rotator.
The reverb uses convolution impulse responses: 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses for more extreme treatments. Factory FX rack chain presets are included to get you started.
This is a standard open-format Kontakt library. It needs the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or later to load the.nki instruments.
The free Kontakt Player runs it only in a limited demo mode, and the Libraries tab does not support it. You can load it through the File browser tab or the Quickload window instead.
The sample folders are unlocked, so the wav files also work in other wav-compatible samplers and synths.
System requirements are Windows 7 or higher, or Mac OSX 10.9 or higher. A dual core CPU and 2 GB of RAM are listed, with a SATA or SSD drive recommended.
Yes. The Little Epic Percussion Black Friday deal takes 50% off this Soundiron Kontakt library, bringing it to $14.50. The offer runs until Dec 6, 2026.
It has 2,817 stereo samples at 1.71 GB installed, in one master NKI bank. Instruments include tambourine, finger cymbals, concert triangle, ship's bell, wooden frogs, monkey drum, rabbit drum, claves, kalimba, shakers and vibraslap.
Yes. It needs the full retail Kontakt 5.5 or later. The free Kontakt Player runs this open-format library only in a limited demo mode. The samples are unlocked wav files, so other wav-compatible samplers can load them.
The Kontakt interface offers swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter and pitch controls, plus an LFO, an arpeggiator and key and scale lock. An FX rack with 18 DSP modules and convolution reverb rounds it out.
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