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Petroglyph Black Friday pricing runs 50% off this stone hand percussion library for Kontakt, so it comes to $24.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
Soundiron recorded it with primitive stone artifacts from various North American tribes and cultures of the pre-Columbian era. Some of the pieces are many thousands of years old.
It is a Kontakt percussion instrument where every sound comes from tools and weapons made of stone and bone. The set includes mortars, pestles, grindstones, bowls, awls, hammers, axe heads, spear tips and arrow heads.
Petroglyph's sound sources come from eight materials: obsidian, serpentine, slate, flint, granite, sandstone, volcanic basalt and animal bone, each shaped by hand into an object. Shapes and sizes vary a lot, and so do the results: heavy grinding scrapes and thuds on one end, thin, glassy taps, clicks, clacks and clinks on the other.
The maker pitches it as an alternative to traditional hand and drum percussion, electronic percussion, sound effects and game or software UI sounds. It also describes the sound as basic, raw and elemental.
The library holds 100 sound sets, each with 8 to 10 round-robin variations per velocity layer. Everything was captured up close and in stereo in a dry studio environment, using Neumann and Sound Devices hardware.
The articulations are split like this:
The custom script gives you attack, release, transient offset, dynamic swelling, filter type selection and a resonant filter sweep. There is also an arpeggiator with custom dynamic modes and step sequencer pattern creation.
A full effects rack sits behind it, with EQ, filter, phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, and amp and speaker simulation. The convolution reverb has 70 impulses, from cathedrals, churches and halls to bunkers, garages and tunnels, plus a set of special effect spaces.
The install is 305 MB and contains 2292 samples plus 7 NKI presets. Audio is 24 bit / 48kHz uncompressed stereo PCM wav.
It needs the full retail version of Kontakt 5.5 or later, on OSX 10.8 or later or Windows 7 or later. The free Kontakt Player does not load it, and neither does the Libraries tab. Use the File browser tab, or import it into the Kontakt database and Quickload.
The presets and wav samples are unlocked. That means you can customise them or map the wavs into any software that reads regular uncompressed wav files.
The maker recommends a dual core CPU, 2 GB of RAM and a SATA or SSD drive.
Yes. The Petroglyph Black Friday deal takes 50% off this Soundiron Kontakt library, which brings it to $24.50. The offer runs until Dec 6, 2026.
The 305 MB download holds 2292 samples and 7 NKI presets. There are 100 sound sets with 8 to 10 round-robin variations per velocity layer, plus a custom interface with arpeggiator, effects rack and a 70-impulse convolution reverb.
Soundiron recorded North American pre-Columbian tools and weapons: mortars, pestles, grindstones, bowls, awls, hammers, axe heads, spear tips and arrow heads. The materials are obsidian, serpentine, slate, flint, granite, sandstone, volcanic basalt and animal bone.
No. It is an open-format library that needs the full retail version of Kontakt 5.5 or later. The free Player and the Libraries tab do not support it, but the unlocked wav samples can be mapped in other wav-compatible software.
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