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The Steel Tones Black Friday deal puts a Soundiron Kontakt library of a steel tongue drum at $24.50, which is 50% off until Dec 6, 2026.
Steel Tones is a multi-sampled tuned percussion library built around the Hapi Drum, a hollow steel-chambered instrument from Hapi Tones. It measures 12 inches wide and 8 inches deep (30cm x 20cm).
The Hapi Drum belongs to the family of steel tongue drums, also called tank drums or hank drums. This model has 8 tongues tuned to a D-major pentatonic scale.
Soundiron describes each note as a strong fundamental wrapped in a haze of complex overtones and harmonics, with a long, very mellow sustain.
Two mic positions were recorded, both with large-diaphragm Neumann stereo pairs. The close position is dry and present. The far position was captured in a hall at 15 feet for a more open, spacious sound.
Sampling is deep: 7 round robins and up to 9 velocity layers per note, played with soft rubber mallets and hard metal mallets.
There are two sound layers with independent controls, so you can solo, combine or layer articulations, tongues and mic positions into your own blends. Each layer's level is set with the swell control.
Other parameters include attack, release, sample start offset, semi-tone pitch-stepping and a definable MIDI key range. Key switching is included too.
The ARP system covers arpeggiation modes and step-sequencer patterns. The FX Rack adds the following:
The convolution reverb carries 70 impulses: cathedrals, churches, halls, bunkers, garages, tunnels, chambers, rooms and special FX spaces.
Alongside the acoustic instrument, you get 50 sound-designed ambiences, pads, atmospheres and synth soundscapes made from the raw drum recordings. A waveform pad utility with vibrato control and several common wave shapes is there for layering and building custom instruments.
The download holds 14 NKI instrument presets and 6 NMK multi-instrument banks. The 2.9 GB library contains 1,161 samples, recorded as 24-bit / 48kHz uncompressed stereo PCM wav.
It is a standard open-format Kontakt library for the full retail version of Kontakt 5.5 or later. The free Kontakt Player does not support it. The Libraries tab does not either, but the File browser tab works, or you can import it into the Kontakt database and Quickload.
Presets and wav samples are unlocked, so you can customise them or map the wavs into other wav-compatible samplers.
Yes. The Steel Tones Black Friday deal takes 50% off this Soundiron Kontakt library, bringing it to $24.50 until Dec 6, 2026. It is a 2.9 GB download built around a Hapi Drum steel tongue drum.
The library holds 1,161 samples, 14 NKI instrument presets and 6 NMK multi-instrument banks. It also has 50 sound-designed ambiences and pads, a waveform pad utility, an arpeggiator with step sequencer, an FX rack and 70 convolution reverb impulses.
No. It is an open-format library for the full retail version of Kontakt 5.5 or later, so the free Kontakt Player does not support it. The Libraries tab is also unsupported, but the File browser tab or Quickload works.
Soundiron used two stereo pairs of large-diaphragm Neumann mics: a close pair for a dry, present sound and a far pair in a hall at 15 feet. Notes were sampled with soft rubber and hard metal mallets, 7 round robins and up to 9 velocity layers.
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