Stringed Instruments

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Harmonic Tides
Open Format
$ 49

Harmonic Tides is an aetherial sound-designed library crafted from delicately resonant cello and double bass string harmonics. Pierce Constanti imagined a uniquely expressive textural sound designed instrument ideal for film scoring. It's perfect for modern arrangements and film/game scores whenever lush swells and huge waves of intense feeling are called for.

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Nightmare Violin
Open Format
$ 49

This strings library features a collection of eerie articulations, including unsettling pizzicato swarms, weaving ponticello sustains, haunting ricochets, and violent tremolos that will send shivers down your spine. But that's not all—Nightmare Violin also comes packed with 40 ominous textural pads and evolving drones, ideal for crafting dark, immersive soundscapes that pull your audience into the depths of fear.

Axe Machina
Open Format
$ 99

This powerful virtual electric guitar library is meant for pure metal destruction, featuring Craig Peters' custom Kiesel Aries 7-string. It offers open and muted notes and power chords, harmonics, scrapes, fretting, with filters, custom FX and auto-strum.

Sitarion
Open Format
$ 99

Sitarion is a powerful virtual electric sitar library designed to harmonize tradition and innovation. Chithrinie Nirupama sampled her beautiful custom sitar to bring you rich, deep multi-samples and a vast collection of live performance phrases.

This library features two violinists for life-like duets and layering options. With each player, we included a complete range of chromatic articulations, and an extensive collection of improvised melodic phrases in various styles, dynamics, tempos and keys.

This orchestral string scoring solution brings brilliant sound, vast content and adaptive performance control into one powerful package with 1st & 2nd Violins, Violas, Cellos and Basses and a huge selection of long & short articulations, legato, portamento, dynamic expressions and aleatoric effects in 4 mic positions.

Hyperion Strings Elements
Kontakt Player
$ 99

At a game-changing price, this string ensemble library features a forward and robust sound unlike any other. We’ve equipped the interface with plenty of spatialization, environment simulation, positioning controls and more to let you dial in your ideal sound.

Hyperion Strings Micro
Kontakt Player
$ 49

This library is the lighter introductory version of Soundiron's symphonic string series, perfect for those just getting into orchestral writing. For this compact version, we’ve included core articulations like dynamic sustains, vibrato, staccatos and more.

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Elysium Harp
Kontakt Player
$ 149 $ 89

Elysium Harp features the massive Lyon & Healy bronze concert harp in exquisite detail, with extended articulation choices, like plucks, harmonics, glisses and strums, advanced controls, easy play-assist features and warm presence across the entire key range.

Voltage Bass
Open Format
$ 49
Voltage Bass is a four stringed electric bass guitar with hot pickups and a versatile sound ready for any genre of music. It includes ambiences, synth sustains, staccatos and a powerfully customizable FX rack so you can dial in your next favorite bass preset.

The Octobass is the lowest concert string instrument, with a thunderous, room-shaking growl. This 12GB+ library for Kontakt has 30+ articulations, with various sustains, shorts, dynamic expressions, legato, effects, aleatoric phrases, inspiring performance tools, creative options and a huge range of custom spaces.

Aeolian Fan Harp
Open Format
$ 39
The Aeolian Fan Harp is a unique wind-blown steel-stringed zither by Dust Bowl Guitars, based on ancient Greek wind harps. This 12-string fretless instrument makes its own wind with a fan! It includes pluck, strum, arpeggiator, FX rack, custom FX and more.
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Brad Hoyt's Harp Guitar
Open Format
$ 99 $ 59

This library features a custom 30-string acoustic harp guitar. It captures the classical-modern hybrid sound perfectly with deep multi-sampling of all strings, including plucks, palm-mutes, chokes, slides, and more. The GUI allows for seamless sound-design.

Bizarre Sitar
Open Format
$ 39
Small but by no means insignificant, Bizarre Sitar is a small hand-held sitar library, featuring a variety of beautiful chromatically plucked, strummed and bowed articulations. It also includes creative presets, sound-designed ambiences and an intuitive GUI.
Street Erhu
Open Format
$ 49
Street Erhu is a unique live-performance phrase library featuring over 4600 Chinese Erhu violin phrases performed by Qi Xin Huang. It includes 12 songs recorded on the streets and 40 songs recorded in a subway station, designed with essential user controls.
Struck Grand Piano
Open Format
$ 69
This prepared Steinway 1926 Parlor Grand explores unusual piano string articulations like string hits, plucks, scrapes and more. It shines as both tuned percussion and a massive stringed zither, with a broad pitch range, dynamic response and complex character.
Canjo
Open Format
$ 29
The twangy tone of the Canjo comes from its use of a tin can as a resonant chamber. Somewhere between a banjo and a mountain dulcimer, this library features 12 diatonic notes and a powerful GUI to truly extend the capabilities of this homemade instrument.
Twine Bass
Open Format
$ 39
This library is comprised of a modified cello and a traditional Kenyan fretless stringed instrument called a Bolon. Playing it like a upright bass, we discovered deeply sonorous sounds, with rich, warm resonance, powerful low end and a woody, soft quality.
Zitherette
Open Format
$ 29
The Zitherette is library featuring a hollow-bodied 8-string fretless zither played with finger picks and palm mute articulations and custom FX patches. At it's softest, it has a pristine, harp-like sound, while the hardest notes twang deeply at the attack.
Acoustic & Electric Saz Bundle captures a 5-string Turkish Saz Baglâma with both custom pickups and studio mics. This deeply-sampled Kontakt library has a powerful GUI, true legato, auto-strum, arpeggiator, DSP FX rack and many creative presets.
Acoustic Saz
Open Format
$ 99
Acoustic Saz is a deeply-sampled Turkish 5-string acoustic Saz Baglâma library for Kontakt, featuring open plucks, palm mutes, string chokes, percussive effects, true legato, mic mixer, FX rack with amp modeling, auto-strumming, arpeggiator and more.
Electric Saz
Open Format
$ 99
Electric Saz is a deeply sampled electric Turkish 5-string Saz Baglâma with open notes, palm mutes, string chokes and additional inspiring percussive effects. The intuitive GUI offers you full control over how a note is played and which string it is played on.
Frendo
Open Format
$ 39

Frendo is a custom-built, mallet and string instrument, ideal for composers looking for new disturbing, horror-like textures for their scores. It offers a variety of timbres like strikes, creaks, scrapes, shrieks, plucks, dongs, tremolos, vibratos and more.

Fountain Wires
Open Format
$ 19
This library features a shady fountain sanctuary ringed by tightly strung steel cable fencing. Its curious, bass-heavy resonance from the cables mixed with the peaceful white noise from the fountains is a perfect companion for your next experimental project.
Bowed Bucket
Open Format
$ 29
Bowed Bucket is what happens when you hammer together a big fat instrument out of a 5 gallon plastic bucket, a wooden 4×4 beam, bass tuners & cello strings. It features bowed, plucked, and struck articulations all loaded into a GUI for maximum creativity.
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Artillery Shell Cello
Open Format
$ 59 $ 39

Artillery Shell Cello is a unique hand-made instrument created by Dust Bowl Guitars. Based on the concept of a traditional cello, this instrument features an empty metal artillery shell as the body of the instrument! This unique design results in an eerie, shimmering metallic resonance.