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Motor Rhythms Black Friday pricing is 50% off, so this Soundiron Kontakt drum library made from raw automobile parts comes to $44.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
It's a drum kit built by musician and mechanic Jordan Hill. He chose, assembled and welded parts from a large collection of auto makes and models into one kit.
Soundiron went to his workshop and recorded every piece in close detail, with both close and far microphone positions.
The library holds 34 distinct instruments with 85 individually playable articulations. Motor Rhythms is built from recorded car parts, including bells from 16 belt pulleys, kick drums from 2 gas tanks, "fly-hats" made from fly-wheels, a snare from a coolant tank, 4 brake drums, 3 air cleaner cover gongs plus an oil can gong, and 3 washer fluid and coolant tank toms. It also holds a metal air tube cowbell, a washer fluid bottle foot drum, a plastic air tube wood block, 12 receiver drier chimes in open and muted versions, a clutch spring disc, a large hanging transmission bell and 4 plastic oil trap temple blocks. On top of that come 50 sound-designed ambient pads, grooves, leads and atmospheres sorted into 3 categories. Soundiron made them from the raw acoustic source recordings.
The maker lists deep round-robin variation and velocity layering, modular kit mapping, and a step-sequencing arpeggiator with custom dynamic modes and pattern creation.
Inside the bespoke Kontakt panel, every piece of a kit has its own controls for envelope timing at both ends, sample start point, tuning, level and where it sits on the keyboard. Layers can run on independent settings or be linked globally.
You can map each articulation freely, or pick presets for most major drum library MIDI mapping standards.
A full rack of Kontakt's onboard multi-effects comes with it. The convolution reverb offers over a hundred spaces, from cathedrals, churches and halls to bunkers, garages, tunnels, chambers and rooms, plus creative FX impulse responses.
The download is 3.44 GB installed, with 6,894 samples at 24-bit / 48 kHz in lossless compressed NCW format. It ships with 14.nki presets.
It runs in the free Kontakt Player or the full retail Kontakt, version 5.6.8 or later, as a VST, AU or AAX instrument. It needs Windows 10 or higher, or OSX 10.10 or higher. The maker recommends a dual core CPU, 3+ GB of RAM and a SATA or SSD drive.
You add it through the Kontakt "Libraries" browser, and it needs online serial number registration in the Native Instruments Service Center app. It also works with Komplete Kontrol and all S-Series keyboard controllers from Native Instruments.
Yes. The Motor Rhythms Black Friday deal takes 50% off this Soundiron Kontakt library, so it comes to $44.50. The offer ends Dec 6, 2026.
It has 34 instruments with 85 playable articulations, recorded at close and far mic positions. You also get 50 sound-designed pads, grooves, leads and atmospheres, 14.nki presets and 6,894 samples, plus a Kontakt effects rack and convolution reverb impulses.
No. It is licensed for the free Kontakt Player and also runs in full Kontakt 5.6.8 or later. Both load it as a VST, AU or AAX instrument. You need online serial registration through the Native Instruments Service Center app.
Musician and mechanic Jordan Hill selected, assembled and welded the kit from raw automobile parts taken from many makes and models. Soundiron recorded each piece in his workshop, using both close and far microphone positions.
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