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NOVO Modern Strings Black Friday: Heavyocity's Kontakt string instrument is $179, 67% off, with the deal running until Dec 18, 2026.
NOVO pairs deeply sampled orchestral strings with Heavyocity's sound design, aimed at hybrid film, game and TV scoring. The maker says the goal was to "make strings new again."
The samples were recorded at the Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Bros. Studios, with players from the Cinema Scoring Group in Los Angeles. Film score mixer Satoshi Mark Noguchi worked on the project.
It is built on the Kontakt 5 engine and sold as a direct download only. You get a plugin or stand-alone version, so it fits in the box with most DAWs.
The core is a set of orchestral ensembles. Heavyocity lists six traditional sections:
Close, room and hall mic positions are included, along with a core set of key articulations. The maker says NOVO is the first string VI with auto down-and-up bowing for staccato and spiccato lines.
Heavyocity also processed the pristine sources with its sound-design techniques, working from the sonic material of a 50-piece orchestra.
CYCLE is a dynamic playback engine Heavyocity developed in-house. Its controls build rhythmic pulses, swells, stutters and glitch effects, plus granular-style pads for drones and textures.
You can use it to add slight motion to a sustained pad or to rework a sound completely. Patterns can be chained, up to eight, into long evolving sequences.
The MACRO knob sits at the front of the String Designer and Loop Designer. It can be assigned across each channel to volume, pan, EQ, envelope and various effects.
The MACRO sequencer programs swells, stutters and sequenced effects. Each preset ships with its own MACRO assignments, so one knob reshapes the sound quickly.
The Loop Designer holds over 400 loops across three channels. Each channel has independent volume, pan, tuning and start point controls, handy for sketching cues against a deadline.
Here are the specs the maker lists:
On Mac you need OS X 10.10 or higher, an Intel Core 2 Duo and 4 GB RAM. On PC it is Windows 7 or higher, an Intel Core Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2, and 4 GB RAM.
It needs the full Kontakt 5 engine or the free Kontakt 5 Player, version 5.6.6 or later.
Yes. The NOVO Modern Strings Black Friday deal takes 67% off Heavyocity's Kontakt strings instrument, bringing it to $179. The offer ends Dec 18, 2026. It is a direct download, so there is no box to wait for.
Six traditional sections: violin, viola, cello, bass, high ensemble and low ensemble. On top of that you get the String Designer, the Loop Designer with over 400 loops, the CYCLE engine, a MACRO knob and a sample browser. In total there are 308 snapshot presets.
It runs as stand-alone, VST, AU and AAX, so it loads in hosts that support those plugin formats. It needs the full Kontakt 5 engine or the free Kontakt 5 Player, version 5.6.6 or later. It is also NKS-ready for Komplete Kontrol.
CYCLE is a dynamic playback engine that creates rhythmic pulses, swells, stutters and glitch effects. It also builds granular-style pads for ambient drones and textures. You can chain up to eight patterns together for long, evolving sequences.
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