Free Berimbau Sample Library By Sonokinetic (OFFER EXPIRED)

Sonokinetic is currently offering their brand new Berimbau sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt as a free download. The offer will expire very soon (less than fourteen hours left at the time of writing this article).

Sonokinetic’s Berimbau is based on over 200 samples of two traditional berimbau instruments from Brazil, one made of biriba wood and one made of fiberglass. The library can come in handy for making traditional Brazilian music, of course, but it can also work great for cinematic music and for spicing up synthetic percussion loops. The sounds are completely royalty and copyright free, however they are compressed to NCW format which is exclusive to Native Instruments Kontakt (there are no WAV files in the download pack). The library is not compatible with the free Kontakt Player, meaning that it will only work for fifteen minutes in the free version of Kontakt.

The customized user interface for Kontakt is quite simple but also very useful, providing direct access to three different microphone positions, quick tuning settings, a 3-band equalizer and the convolution reverb effect that is pre-loaded with a custom impulse response. Everything else is controlled directly via key switches. The download pack includes a user manual which explains how to control the round robin samples and get a natural sounding performance.

As you’d expect from a high profile sound design company like Sonokinetic, the recording quality here is fantastic and these are easily the best free berimbau samples that you can find online. The problem is that this is a time-limited offer that will expire very soon, so you should definitely hurry up if you want to grab your free copy of Berimbau. The coolest thing is that the product is currently offered completely free of charge on Sonokinetic’s website – you don’t even have to sign up for a user account!

A special thank you goes to our reader Jason who informed us about this freebie. Thanks so much for the support! :)

Audio Demo

Check out the Berimbau audio demo:

Download

Berimbau is available for free download via Sonokinetic (67.8 MB download size, RAR archive, contains 1 instrument patch in NKI format for NI Kontakt 5.1 and above).

UPDATE: The free download offer for Berimbau has expired.