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The Voice of the Sun - Sunrise Black Friday deal puts Soundiron's Japanese solo vocal instrument for Kontakt at $49.50, 50% off, until Dec 6, 2026.
Sunrise is a Kontakt instrument built around female vocalist N-Iori, recorded in Japan with studio engineering by Yusuke Asada. Soundiron developed it with Sonic Wire / Crypton Future Media. It's the start of a new generation in Soundiron's solo vocalist line.
The maker describes it as traditional lyrical phrases, emotionally charged melodies, chromatic expressions and true legato in one library. The Japanese lyrics were performed live, without AI.
Every lyrical line is adapted from the Hyakunin Isshu, a collection of one hundred waka (classical Japanese) poems. It's tied to the Kamakura era (c. 1185 to 1333) and is known in Japan through the New Year card game Uta-Garuta.
You can play more than a thousand lyrical melodies, sorted by key, tempo and mood.
The modern Japanese and English translation of each line shows as a caption in the GUI as you play it. The phrase articulation GUI controls sequencing, tempo, tuning, timing and duration.
Beyond the poetry phrases, there are over 1,300 vowel phrases that Soundiron describes as modular and flexible enough for any composition. The rest of the feature list:
Staccatos come in soft and loud dynamics for Ay, Ee, Oh, Oo, La and Humming. Sustains cover Ah piano, Ah forte, Ee, Eh, Oh, Oo and Humming.
The library is 2.07 GB installed and holds 3,782 samples in unlocked.WAV format.
It needs the full retail version of Kontakt 6.6 or later. The free Kontakt Player, the Libraries rack, Native Access, Komplete Kontrol and the Add Library import feature don't support it.
Yes. The Voice of the Sun - Sunrise Black Friday deal is $49.50, 50% off, until Dec 6, 2026. It's Soundiron's Japanese female solo vocal library for Kontakt, with over a thousand lyrical phrases drawn from classical waka poetry.
It needs the full, unlocked retail version of Kontakt 6.6 or later. The free Kontakt Player, Libraries rack, Native Access, Komplete Kontrol and the Add Library import feature don't support this library.
You get 3,782.WAV samples (2.07 GB installed) and 23 Kontakt.nki presets. Content includes over 1,000 lyrical phrases, over 1,300 vowel phrases, true legato, sustains, staccatos, a mixer and an FX rack with convolution reverb.
Each lyrical element is adapted from lines and words of the Hyakunin Isshu, a collection of one hundred classical Japanese waka poems. N-Iori performed them live without AI, and Japanese and English captions appear in the GUI as you play.
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