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Tablas Black Friday pricing is 50% off, which puts this Soundiron tabla library for Kontakt at $34.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
Tablas is a deeply multi-sampled percussion library built around live, dynamic performance phrases. The tabla is a pair of hand drums with contrasting sizes and timbres, used in Hindustani classical music and in popular and devotional music across the Indian subcontinent.
Soundiron recorded it with tabla master and jazz percussionist Sameer Gupta, who has studied and practiced percussion for over 30 years. The recording is close and dry, captured in a medium wood and masonry studio.
Every classical tabla articulation is covered, plus variants and creative alternatives. The maker says Tablas suits soundtracks and production music, among other uses.
The main Tablas preset holds all the multi-samples. Four separate sound layers make up the instrument, and every one lets you link, automate or customize its settings, including swell, attack, release (which has a pad mode), start offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine tuning, the choice of sound bank and the crossfader assignment.
Layer 3 (Ambience) holds tonal and dissonant pads, synth-tones and dreamscapes morphed from the source recordings. Play them alone, or blend them under Layers 1 and 2 for texture and body.
The Sub-Synth layer is a basic synthesizer with 10 shapes, added for transient and tonal support.
The advanced settings window has a per-layer LFO with selectable shape, target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-sync and fade-in time. A set of 13 filters covers lowpass, high-pass and effect types, and each one can be steered by playing velocity, the mod wheel, expression, aftertouch, where you hit the keyboard, or the step-sequencer tables.
The arpeggiator has a built-in velocity sequencer table, with control over direction, note timing, swing, randomization and duration. A key and scale lock constrains your notes to common scales and keys.
It contains over 1,350 loops from 70 bpm to 165 bpm. The loop browser previews loops, filters by tempo and lets you star favorites for instant recall.
Loaded into the slot grid, each loop can be edited down to the individual transient slice. Options include playback direction, tempo-sync or beat-mode, normal, ½-time or double-time, slice order, ADSR, and drawn step-automation for volume, pitch, pan, filter cutoff and resonance.
WAV files are named by category and keyword for use outside Kontakt, in sound design, games and post-production.
Tablas 2.0 adds a highly customizable GUI, a broad set of special effects, tuned melodic programs and mutations, and new ambient drones, pads and soundscapes.
The library needs the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.8 or later. The free Kontakt Player and the Add Library import process do not support it.
System requirements: Windows 7 or higher, or Mac OSX 10.9 or higher, plus a dual-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM. A SATA or SSD hard drive is recommended.
Yes. The Tablas Black Friday deal takes 50% off Soundiron's Kontakt tabla library, bringing it to $34.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
Two master NKI banks, 3,703 stereo samples (3.53 GB, 24 bit / 48 kHz WAV), 20 FX and ambient presets, over 1,350 loops, and a full FX rack with convolution reverb. Presets and WAV samples are unlocked for customization.
No. The library needs the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.8 or later. The free Kontakt Player and the Add Library import process do not support its open-format.nki presets.
The main preset has 4 independent layers with their own parameters. Layers 1 and 2 hold the primary sounds, Layer 3 holds ambient pads and drones, and the Sub-Synth layer adds a 10-shape synthesizer for transient and tonal support.
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