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The Steel Water Bottle Black Friday deal takes 50% off Soundiron's found percussion library for Kontakt, which comes to $4.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
It's a Kontakt instrument built from one stainless steel flask. Soundiron describes the bottle as weather-worn, dents and dings included, and sampled every sound it could get out of it.
The library captures the bottle being handled in many ways: gripped, tapped, prodded, struck so it rings, dampened mid-ring, smacked, and swirled with water, plus sharp pinging hits. Every group has a character of its own, so you can use one by itself or stack several together.
Every note carries 12 round robins and up to 5 velocity layers. The library has tuned and untuned percussion, plus 20 ambience patches made from the same source recordings.
Soundiron recorded the bottle close up in wide stereo. The second mic position is a tetrahedral binaural microphone, which the maker says gives you a first-person feel of playing the instrument, intimate and enveloping.
The soundscapes, pads and drones come from that same source material.
The controls are automation-ready. Per the maker, you can shape these parameters:
There's also a customizable arpeggiator with a velocity table and control over direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration.
A key and scale lock keeps your notes inside common scales and keys, which helps with melodic parts and live playing.
The modular rack holds 18 DSP effect modules across 10 slots, in any order you like. The effects lineup spans modulation, time-based and drive tools, modeled amps and speaker cabinets, dynamics processing, tone shaping and a rotary speaker emulation, plus further extras.
The convolution reverb includes 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces. Another 40 custom FX impulses are there for more drastic reshaping of the sound.
The library also ships with 20 sound-designed FX and ambient presets and a bank of FX rack chain factory presets.
It runs on Windows 7 or higher and Mac OSX 10.9 or higher, with a dual-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM. Soundiron recommends a SATA or SSD drive.
You need the full retail version of Kontakt 5.5 or later. The free Kontakt Player and the Add Library import process don't support this library.
Yes. The Steel Water Bottle Black Friday deal is 50% off Soundiron's Kontakt library, which brings it to $4.50. The offer ends Dec 6, 2026.
You get one master NKI instrument bank in open Kontakt format, 1,722 stereo WAV files at 24 bit / 48 kHz, tuned and untuned percussion, 20 ambience patches, and 20 sound-designed FX and ambient presets. It's 765 MB installed.
No. The full retail version of Kontakt 5.5 or later is required to load the.nki presets. Soundiron states that the free Kontakt Player and the Add Library import process don't support this library.
It captures grabs, knocks, pokes, rings, ring mutes, slaps, sloshes and pings from a stainless steel bottle. Notes have 12 round robins and up to 5 velocity layers, and there are ambient soundscapes, pads and drones made from the source.
Prices and end dates are checked at publishing time and can change, so confirm them at the store before you buy.