UFO Tone Black Friday Deal 2026: $14.50, 50% off

UFO Tone Black Friday pricing takes 50% off this Soundiron steel tongue drum library for Kontakt, which comes to $14.50 until Dec 6, 2026.

It is a multi-sampled, metallic tuned percussion instrument built around one odd hang-drum-style find. The maker's story is that the drum turned up half-buried in a field, as if left behind by a visitor from space.

How was UFO Tone recorded?

Soundiron took the cleaned-up drum to St. Paul's Church in San Francisco. That is the room used for Requiem Light Choir, Symphony Series Brass and Alpha Organ.

Each of the eight tongues was struck with a mallet. A close stereo pair of Neumann studio mics gives a dry, present sound, and a second stereo pair 15 feet away gives an open, spacious one.

You can solo, combine or layer the articulations, tongues and mic positions chromatically to build your own blends.

What can you do with the Kontakt interface?

The panel is automation-ready and covers swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching, cross-fading and layering.

• An LFO that lets you pick its waveform, destination parameter, rate, depth, tempo-sync and fade-in time
• 12 filters covering lowpass, high-pass and FX types, which can be driven by velocity, modwheel, expression, after-touch, key position or the step-sequencer table
• An arpeggiator with a velocity table, plus settings for direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration
• A key and scale lock that keeps played notes inside common scales and keys
• A modular FX rack with 18 DSP modules across 10 slots, arranged in any order

The modules include phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ and rotator. The convolution reverb carries 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses.

What is in the library?

• Two master NKI instrument banks in open Kontakt format
• Mallet articulations in 2 microphone positions
• 20 Ambience patches made from the source recordings
• 20 custom sound-designed FX and Ambient presets
• Factory FX rack chain presets as starting points
• 2,201 stereo WAV files, 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM, 3.89 GB installed

What do you need to run it?

You need the full version of Kontakt 5.5 or later. The free Kontakt Player leaves the instrument in demo mode.

Windows 7 or higher and Mac OSX 10.9 or higher are supported. Soundiron recommends a dual-core CPU, 2 GB of RAM and a SATA or SSD drive.