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Mini Saron Black Friday pricing takes 50% off this Soundiron toy saron library for Kontakt, which brings it to $7.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
Mini Saron is a deeply multi-sampled tuned percussion library built around a tiny toy saron. The saron is an Indonesian instrument used in the gamelan.
If you want a Mini Saron plugin for metallic, bell-like mallet tones, this is a Kontakt instrument, so it loads inside the full version of Kontakt.
Soundiron played 8 metal bars with mallets and hammers to capture the nuances of the instrument.
Sampling used a pair of mic placements, giving every note as many as 10 velocity layers and 10 alternating takes.
The samples are 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM WAV, 2,072 stereo files in all, and the library takes up 1.22 GB installed.
The library loads as one master NKI instrument bank in open Kontakt format. Here is what it holds:
Soundiron also made a set of ambient soundscapes and sound-design treatments from the recordings.
The interface has automation-ready controls for swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching, cross-fading and layering.
The LFO has a selectable shape, modulation target, speed, intensity, tempo-sync and fade-in time.
You can pick from 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters. Mini Saron can be steered by how hard you strike a key, where you are on the keyboard, the mod wheel, expression and aftertouch, or by values pulled from the step sequencer's table.
The arpeggiator has a velocity table, with control over direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration.
A key and scale lock keeps notes inside common scales and keys, which helps with melodic writing and live playing.
The modular FX rack offers 18 DSP effect modules across 10 slots, in any order. Modules include phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ and rotator.
The reverb draws on 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses. A bank of FX rack chain presets is there to start from.
It runs on Windows 7 or higher and macOS 10.9 or higher. Soundiron lists a dual-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM, and recommends a SATA or SSD drive.
You need the full version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or later. The free Kontakt Player and the Add Library import process do not support this library.
It is a digital download, so you need a broadband connection.
Yes. The Mini Saron Black Friday deal takes 50% off this Soundiron Kontakt library, bringing it to $7.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
One master NKI instrument bank with hammer and mallet tuned percussion and glisses, 25 ambience patches, and 20 custom sound-designed FX and ambient presets. It adds LFO, filter, glide and arpeggiator controls and a full FX rack with convolution reverb.
Soundiron played 8 metal bars of a toy saron with mallets and hammers. It was captured with two microphone positions, 10 round robins and up to 10 velocity layers per note, as 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed WAV samples.
No. It needs the full version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or later. The free Kontakt Player and the Add Library import process do not support it. It runs on Windows 7 or higher and macOS 10.9 or higher.
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