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M1 Garand Rifle is a Soundiron Kontakt library of one WWII rifle, and its M1 Garand Black Friday deal takes 50% off, so it comes to $9.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
The maker calls it an experimental hybrid percussion/sfx instrument. It is aimed at sound designers, composers, re-recording mixers and music producers.
It is the first library in Soundiron's Fireams series, and it covers only this one weapon.
The library holds 450 individual sound effects and segments, recorded from real rifle foley and range sessions. The source is a.30-06 Garand.
-.30-06 gunshots, indoors (13 variations) and outdoors (13 variations)
The maker says the aim is an M1-in-a-Box: one package with the sounds this rifle produces.
There are 17 Kontakt 3.5.nki presets. Each category gets its own preset, and a master construction preset puts all the key elements in one bank. Round-robin variation is built in where it applies.
Everything was recorded in a dry, neutral environment. The maker says that makes it easy to mix with other sound libraries.
The scripted interface has full automation support. Pitch, tone, start position and the other performance parameters can be changed, and 42 bonus convolution reverb impulses come with it. You can also load your own convolution.
The maker pitches the Kontakt setup at live foley: performing to picture, or iterating quickly on the fly. It also lists game sound design, film audio post, concert percussion and sci-fi or horror textures as uses. The clicks, clunks, rattles and scrapes can be bent well away from their source.
The presets run in Kontakt inside any VST, AU or RTAS host that accepts MIDI. They need the full retail version of Kontakt 3.5 or newer. The free Kontakt Player and the Add Library import process do not support this library.
Without Kontakt, the maker says you can use it as a standard wav-based sfx library or convert and import it into another sampler format.
The download is 171 MB installed, with 21 pre-regioned Broadcast Wav files ready to extract and export. They carry deep bwf metadata, including keywords. The Kontakt presets and wav samples are unlocked, so you can customise them.
System requirements: Windows 7 or higher, or Mac OSX 10.6 or higher. You need a dual core CPU and 2 GB of RAM. The maker recommends a SATA or SSD drive.
Yes. The M1 Garand Black Friday deal takes 50% off this Soundiron Kontakt library, bringing it to $9.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
It has 450 sound effects from a.30-06 Garand: indoor and outdoor gunshots, brass bounces, handling, bolt and slide actions, trigger and safety clicks. You also get 17 Kontakt presets, 21 pre-regioned wav files and 42 convolution reverb impulses.
For the.nki instrument presets, yes. They need full retail Kontakt 3.5 or newer, and the free Kontakt Player won't load them. Without Kontakt, the maker says you can use it as a standard wav sfx library or convert it to another sampler format.
It runs in Kontakt inside any VST, AU or RTAS host that handles MIDI. The maker lists Windows 7 or higher and Mac OSX 10.6 or higher, with a dual core CPU and 2 GB of RAM. A SATA or SSD drive is recommended.
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