Nørdic Cello Black Friday Deal 2026: $53.70, 70% off

The Nørdic Cello Black Friday deal takes 70% off Have Audio's Kontakt cello library, which puts it at $53.70 until Dec 7, 2026.

It needs the full version of Kontakt 6.5.2 or later. The free Kontakt Player won't load it.

The library was played by Parisian cellist Jean-Philippe Feiss. It is the first instrument built on the new Nørdic Series engine, which Have Audio created after the response to its earlier Nordisk Kontrabass.

What does the Nørdic Cello plugin include?

The Nørdic Cello VST-style instrument for Kontakt is a 14.16 GB library holding 18,553 samples in NCW format. Here is how the patches are laid out:

• Melodic patches: true legato, Harmony of the North, staccato, pizzicato, tremolo, Sliding Fourths and Sliding Down
• Mixed Articulations: six main articulations in one patch, covering true legato, staccato, long and short pizzicato, harmonics and tremolo
• Textures: body hits, bow textures, low engines, rises and bouncing
• Two mic positions: solo, or blended as a stereo mic with DI

Harmony of the North plays polyphonic sustained notes, with five key switches: vibrato/harmonics, Still Water, Hendrix and crescendo.

Staccato has five key switches: normal, harsh, spiccato with bow tip, alter ego and fast crescendo.

Pizzicato has six: long, short, harmonics, vibrato, slap and fret FX.

Sliding Down has five key switches too: descending 5ths, descending minor 6ths, descending major 6ths, and descending major and minor chords.

How does the Nørdic engine work?

The engine is shared across the Nørdic Series. ICE blends several samples at once for bigger, more cinematic results.

Time Warp time-stretches textures, transitions and some articulations in real time. The maker says you can use it for musical accelerando and ritardando, and for drones and infinite bowing effects.

The built-in arpeggiator has five modes: Up, Down, Up-Down, Down-Up and Random. It runs up to 32 steps across four octaves.

Reverse FX, an envelope and a dynamics control for sustained articulations are also on board.

Which effects and extras come with it?

The effects section has 82 convolution reverbs and a delay algorithm that the maker calls top-class.

There are six additional FX with three controls each: EQ, compression, saturation, chorus, phaser and Leslie. You pick one per slot. Four FX macros can be assigned to whatever you like.

The Drag&Drop slot lets you import your own samples, loops and future expansion packs into the engine. When you import a loop, the engine detects its tempo, and the HOST button syncs it to your DAW.

The maker lists about 15 GB of free drive space and recommends 8 GB of RAM or more.