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Tiny Thumb Pianos Black Friday pricing takes 50% off this Soundiron Kontakt library of duo and solo plucked kalimbas, which comes to $9.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
It is a sampled kalimba, the modern descendant of the African mbira, and it runs inside Kontakt as one master NKI instrument bank.
The maker describes the mbira as a thousand-year-old instrument from Zimbabwe, used for storytelling at ceremonies, weddings and gatherings.
The maker describes a gentle, melodic, percussive pluck with marimba-like warmth and tonal body.
Each tine was recorded in wide stereo, close and dry. Soundiron played them in unison and solo, so you get duo and solo plucks.
The plucks were captured with 10 round-robins per velocity layer and an average of 8 velocity layers per note.
Beyond the plucks, Soundiron sampled percussive hits, slides, taps, glisses and other FX. The idea is that it feels like you are playing a tiny kalimba in each hand.
The Kontakt interface offers automation-ready controls for swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching, cross-fading and layering.
The LFO system has selectable shape, modulation target, speed, intensity, tempo-sync and fade-in time.
You can pick from 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters. Playing dynamics, the mod wheel, expression, channel pressure, which key is pressed, and the built-in step sequencer's table can all be routed to modulate parameters.
The arpeggiator has a velocity table and controls for direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration.
A key and scale lock constrains notes to common scales and keys, which helps with melodic writing and live playing.
There is also a full FX rack with convolution reverb, including custom rooms, halls, chambers and FX environments.
The library needs the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt, version 5.5 or later, to load the.nki presets. The free Kontakt Player and the Add Library import process do not support this open-format library.
Yes. The Tiny Thumb Pianos Black Friday deal is 50% off, which brings the Soundiron Kontakt library to $9.50. The offer runs until Dec 6, 2026.
One master NKI instrument bank with duo and solo kalimba plucks, percussive hits, taps, slides, glisses and FX. It also has 20 ambience patches, 20 custom FX and ambient presets, and 1,805 stereo WAV files at 24 bit / 48 kHz.
No. It needs the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt, version 5.5 or later. The free Kontakt Player and the Add Library import process do not support this open-format library.
It has swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter and pitch controls, plus an LFO, 12 filters and a customizable arpeggiator. A key and scale lock keeps notes in common scales, and a full FX rack includes convolution reverb.
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