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Rebec Black Friday pricing is 70% off, which puts this Have Audio Kontakt instrument at $8.70 until Dec 7, 2026.
It is a sampled rabel, the Spanish cousin of the medieval rebec, a bowed string instrument that minstrels played at feasts. This Rebec plugin runs on Have Audio's Caffè Antico engine inside full Kontakt.
The rebec is a bowed instrument from the Medieval era and early Renaissance. Players were typically professional minstrels and musicians at feasts.
Have Audio recorded a rabel in Cantabria, a handmade instrument from a village high in the mountains that is over three decades old. The maker says it follows 3 centuries of oral tradition and craftsman's teachings.
The instrument has 2 strings and a body of raw wood. The bow is strung with horse hair.
The lamb skin on the body needs sun every now and then to sound right, according to Have Audio.
Argentinian cellist and multi-instrumentalist Víctor Gil Serafini performed the sessions. The maker says he captured the primitive voice of the rabel and widened its playability in the Caffè Antico engine.
The articulation list covers bowed and plucked playing plus effects:
The library is a single NKI instrument. The playable range runs from F2 to A3, with a C2 note below it.
It holds 375 samples in.ncw format and weighs in at over 295MB uncompressed. That is a small load for your drive and RAM compared with a full orchestral library.
The Rebec needs the full version of Kontakt 5.6.8 or newer. It will not work in the free Kontakt Player.
If you want the raw, unpolished tone of a tavern fiddle in your arrangements, this Rebec deal is the place to start.
Yes. The Rebec Black Friday deal takes 70% off this Have Audio Kontakt instrument and brings it to $8.70. The offer ends Dec 7, 2026.
You get one NKI file built on 375 samples in.ncw format, over 295MB uncompressed. It holds the long vibrato, non vibrato, staccato, mordente, pizzicato and tremolo articulations, plus body percussions and ominous textures.
Yes. Rebec requires the full version of Kontakt 5.6.8 or newer. It is not compatible with the free Kontakt Player, so the instrument will not load there.
Have Audio sampled a rabel, a Spanish rebec with 2 strings, built more than 30 years ago in a remote village in Cantabria. Víctor Gil Serafini played it, and the Caffè Antico engine adds playability.
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