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The Luftballon Black Friday deal puts Soundiron's balloon sound library for Kontakt at $3.50, 50% off, until Dec 6, 2026.
Luftballon is a Kontakt library built from latex party balloons: inflation, pops, hisses, wheezes, twists, squeals, pulls, deflation flubbers, scrapes, thuds, thumps, taps and snaps. Soundiron describes it as equal parts wind, sound effect and percussion library.
Soundiron blew up somewhere around 100 party balloons with helium in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Each one was recorded with large-diaphragm mics placed close, in a wide X-Y stereo field, for an aggressive and dynamic sound.
This is the 2.0 release. Soundiron added new FX articulations, built new ambiences from the source recordings and remastered the samples.
The modular template adds usability features, and 20 new custom FX presets are meant as starting points for film or game scores, soundtracks and music.
The Kontakt interface has automation-ready controls for swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter and pitch (coarse and fine). You also get articulation switching, cross-fading and layering.
The LFO system lets you pick the shape, modulation target, speed, intensity, tempo-sync and fade-in time. Luftballon offers 12 filter types covering lowpass, high-pass and FX flavors, while modulation can be driven by note velocity, mod wheel, expression, channel pressure, where a key sits on the keyboard, or a table in the step sequencer.
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, which helps with melodic writing and live playing.
The FX rack has 18 DSP modules you can load into any of 10 slots, in any order. Phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ and rotator are in there.
The reverb is convolution-based, with 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses for heavier sound design. Factory FX rack chain presets are included.
You need the full version of Kontakt 5.5 or later. In the free Kontakt Player the instrument stays stuck in demo mode.
Soundiron lists Windows 7 or higher, or Mac OSX 10.9 or higher, a dual-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM. A SATA or SSD drive is recommended.
Yes. The Luftballon Black Friday deal takes 50% off Soundiron's balloon library for Kontakt, which brings it to $3.50. The deal ends Dec 6, 2026.
One master NKI instrument bank with balloon snaps, pops, twists, bends, flops, bounces, rubs and SFX, plus 20 ambience patches and 20 custom FX and ambient presets. It adds up to 428 stereo WAV files, 24 bit / 48 kHz, at 609 MB installed.
No. Soundiron says the full version of Kontakt 5.5 or later is required. In the free Kontakt Player the instrument stays in demo mode.
It has an LFO system, 12 filters, a customizable arpeggiator and a key and scale lock. The FX rack holds 18 DSP modules across 10 slots. The convolution reverb has 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses.
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