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The Oops! All Cowbell Black Friday deal puts Soundiron's cowbell and woodblock library for Kontakt at $9.50, 50% off, until Dec 6, 2026.
The maker's story is that the team accidentally recorded a huge pile of cowbells at a grand historic concert hall. The result is a Kontakt instrument built around 8 cowbells running from huge to tiny.
Besides the cowbells, you get 8 woodblock sizes, a Meinl Galaxy, a Liquid Triangle and a Flexatone. That adds up to 42 articulations, each with extensive dynamic detail and variation.
There are also sustaining rolls and a bank of Flexatone cinematic and comic effects.
The library covers the following:
Open-source SFZ presets are included too.
The instrument uses a 4-layer interface for the full version of Kontakt and for the free Decent Sampler. A built-in mixer carries pro features and deep customization.
The LFO system lets you pick the shape, the modulation target, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in time.
You can also apply 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters. You can route modulation from how hard a key is struck, the mod wheel, an expression pedal, channel pressure, where on the keyboard a note falls, or a table driven by the step sequencer.
The arpeggiator has a velocity table and controls for direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration.
A key and scale lock keeps your notes inside common scales and keys, which helps with melodic writing and live playing.
The modular FX rack has 27 DSP effect modules, and you can load them into any of 8 slots in whatever order suits the signal chain. The list includes phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ and rotator.
The reverb is convolution-based and ships with 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces. Another 40 custom FX impulses are there for reshaping the sound more radically.
Factory FX rack chain presets give you starting points.
The.nki presets need the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt, version 5.5.2 or later. Soundiron also notes that Kontakt 6.2.2 or newer is required for this instrument.
The free Kontakt Player will leave the instrument stuck in demo mode. The free Decent Sampler is the route if you don't own full Kontakt, using the 12 Decent Sampler presets.
The maker lists Windows XP or higher and Mac OSX 10.6 or higher. A dual-core CPU, 2 GB of RAM and a SATA or SSD drive are recommended.
Yes. The Oops! All Cowbell Black Friday deal takes 50% off Soundiron's Kontakt cowbell library, bringing it to $9.50. The offer runs until Dec 6, 2026.
It has 8 cowbells, 8 woodblocks, a Meinl Galaxy, Liquid Triangle and Flexatone across 42 articulations. You also get 32 ambient pads and drones, 21 Kontakt presets, 12 Decent Sampler presets and 30,602 samples.
No. The Kontakt.nki presets need full Kontakt, and in the free Player the instrument stays in demo mode. The 12 Decent Sampler presets are the option for the free Decent Sampler.
There is an LFO system, 12 filters, an arpeggiator and a key and scale lock. The FX rack has 27 effect modules in 8 slots, plus convolution reverb with 99 spaces and 40 custom FX impulses.
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