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Twine Bass Black Friday pricing drops this Soundiron Kontakt library to $19.50, 50% off, until Dec 6, 2026. It samples a hemp-strung cello and a Kenyan Bolon.
Twine Bass is built from a pair of unusual instruments. One is a modified cello that Soundiron strung with rough hemp twine in various tunings and played as a stand-up bass.
The other is a Bolon, a traditional Kenyan fretless stringed instrument.
Its build pairs a hollowed calabash resonator with a curved horn that serves as the instrument's neck. It carries four twine strings that pass straight through a goat-skin resonating head.
The strings are deep-sampled with 10x round-robin and up to 14 velocity layers. Beyond standard playing, Soundiron captured a wide range of articulations in Twine Bass: smooth glides between notes, muted strings, plucked and twisted tuning pegs, taps and brushing with the fingers, and knocks against the instrument's body.
The generator is new and exclusive to this library, and it has two modes.
In Glissando mode you set the gliss speed, scale, time signature, direction and note duration. Velocity can be played live or drawn per note in a table, and you can use up to 24 strings.
In chord mode, an auto-strum function handles up strokes, down strokes or alternating strokes. You control strum tightness, timing variability between notes, string count (up to 6 in "guitar" Strum mode), and the mode or scale the chord follows, from any root note.
Both modes are fully polyphonic, so you can stack glissandos or chords on different roots. The library offers 26 chords and 13 scales. A bank of 16 assignable key-switches gives instant access to your favourite chords, and you can arrange up to 12 real-time chord/gliss mode changes on user-definable key-switches.
The interface is multi-layer, with LFO, filter, glide and arpeggiator controls. The maker says you have full control over the custom convolution reverb impulses, so you can push the sound in new directions. The collection also includes ambient pads, atmospheric drones and evolving soundscapes.
The full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or later is required for the.nki presets. The free Kontakt Player and the Add Library import process don't support this open-format library, and the instrument stays in demo mode there.
System requirements are Windows 7 or higher, or Mac OSX 10.9 or higher, with a dual-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM. A SATA or SSD drive is recommended. The library downloads through the Amazon S3 cloud network, so you need a broadband connection.
Yes. The Twine Bass Black Friday deal takes 50% off Soundiron's Kontakt library, bringing it to $19.50. The deal ends Dec 6, 2026. It is a download of over 2,000 samples, installed at 2.45 GB.
Two instruments: a cello strung with rough hemp twine and played as a stand-up bass, and a Kenyan Bolon with a cow's horn neck, a gourd body, four twine strings and a goat-skin resonating head. The strings are sampled with 10x round-robin and up to 14 velocity layers.
No. Soundiron says the library needs the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or later. The free Kontakt Player and the Add Library import process don't support this open-format library, and it stays in demo mode there.
It generates glissandos and strummed chords with control over speed, scale, direction, string count, strum tightness and timing variability. It offers 26 chords and 13 scales, up to 24 strings in Glissando mode and 6 in Strum mode, with 16 assignable key-switches.
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