Sick 5 Black Friday Deal 2026: $29.50, 50% off

The Sick 5 Black Friday deal takes 50% off this Soundiron Kontakt library of exotic tuned instruments and dark ambiences, so it comes to $29.50 until Dec 6, 2026.

Sick Volume 5 is the latest entry in Soundiron's annual Sick series. The maker says it covers melodic and exotic tuned plucked strings and mallets, unusual winds and musical effects aimed at sci-fi, horror and mystery work.

It also carries evolving tonal pads, atmospheric soundscapes, harmonic clouds and menacing drones.

What instruments are in Sick 5?

Sick 5 offers five acoustic instrument sets, each captured in a light-filled chamber, with close and far microphone perspectives you can blend or switch between:

• Astral Dirge Pipe: a custom contraption that sounds like a multi-key tuned didgeridoo, with chromatic sustains, staccatos and effects
• Channeling Tube: a spring-powered Thunder Tube, played percussively and semi-chromatically by plucking the string at different lengths
• Conjuring Bell: a pair of melodious chimes with a sound hole at the base, so your thumb can create wah-wah effects as they ring
• Spectral Moaner: a droning wind instrument swung in an overhead arc, which produces a harmonic series as the speed increases
• Demon String: an acoustic guitar fitted with a Vo-96 guitar synthesizer, producing self-sustaining, organ-like harmonic drones

Demon String also has chromatic string plucks, plus major, minor and octave chord types.

How do the ambiences and mic positions work?

Soundiron reworked the source recordings into 60 ambiences, drones, atmospheres and special FX instruments. There are 3 main ambient presets, each holding a number of different ambiences to pick from.

Each instrument was captured in a large hall, at close and far distances, in widely spaced stereo pairs. The close position sounds full and present with much less hall reverb. The far position sounds distant and wet, with more air and room influence.

You can load and mix the close and far mics selectively, which saves RAM and lets you dial in the blend. For a nearly dry result, the Release control tightens up the room release.

What does the FX rack offer?

Every preset has the FX Rack panel, with multi-effects, compression, EQ, amp and speaker simulation, and convolution reverb. The reverb section holds dozens of custom-recorded rooms, halls, cathedrals and otherworldly FX impulses.

What are the specs and requirements?

Sick 5 is an open-format Kontakt library for the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.1.0 or later:

• 4 GB installed, 1452 samples
• 8 Kontakt 5.1.nki instrument presets
• 24 bit / 48kHz uncompressed PCM wav audio
• Windows 7 or higher, or Mac OSX 10.7 or higher
• Dual core CPU and 2 GB RAM, with a SATA or SSD drive recommended

The free Kontakt Player does not support it, and neither does the Libraries tab. Load it from the Kontakt File browser tab, or import it into the Kontakt database and Quickload tools.

The presets and wav samples are unlocked, so you can customise them or map the wavs into other wav-compatible samplers and synths.