Soniccouture has sampled a turn of the 19th-century Grand Salon Organ made by the Estey Organ Company and turned it into a Kontakt Player compatible sound library called Estey Reed Organ. The library is currently available as a free download from Soniccouture’s website (offer ends on December 31st).
This human-powered organ has two foot pedals that the player uses to move air through the internal reeds. The samples included in the “Estey Reed Organ” instrument for Native Instruments Kontakt are raw and organic, containing the imperfections of old wood and metal. They even sampled the sound of the air movement and pedal noise which can be adjusted to your taste. The eight switchable stops are Sub, Melodia, Dulce, Viola, Dulciana, Diapason, Jubilante and Forte. I’d have to dust off my old music history textbooks to know what some of those words mean, but they appear to be modeled after the original physical instrument. What is new however are the reverb, velocity, and envelope controls that the user can easily adjust on the main control screen.
Listening to the audio samples on the SonicCouture website, the upper register calls to mind the sound of a filtered retro synthesizer, whereas the low end has a rougher, brassier tone. Although typically used for classical performances, the sounds of this organ could be utilized effectively as an ambient padding instrument on indie tracks, or even on darker pop songs where a rattly old organ sound is appropriate.
Estey Reed Organ is available for free until the end of December 2016, marked down from $69. If you check it out, make sure you have Kontakt installed on your system. Even the free version will work with this instrument (there will be no time limit if you load the library in the freeware Kontakt Player).
Estey Reed Organ is available for free download via Soniccouture, offer ends on December 31st (1.8 GB size on disk, sound library for Native Instruments Kontakt & Kontakt Player).
10 Comments
Konstantin
onWow, this thing sounds great, makes a nice pad when you add some kind of delay to it
Frank
onIs there any other free library for the Kontakt Player Free? it’s very hard to find one. There are tons of free libraries but all of them requires the full version of Kontakt.
Paree
onActually, Developers have to pay some fees for NI to make it available for Kontakt Player which is expensive, from what I’ve heard.
Tomislav Zlatic
onThere’s also DrumMic’a by Sennheiser.
Ike
on… and the latest Christmas present library. Very neat!
Shido
ondoesn’t work for me. The page listed the price as £59, but when added to cart it became £69. Then the discount code only removed £59, so there’s still £10 left .-.
Tomislav Zlatic
onPerhaps it’s a problem with the currencies. Try changing it to USD. I tried to checkout again and the discount code seems to be working just fine.
AM HAPPY
onhaha where is the download, also careful about copyright issues on free items!
Shido
onI checked out anyway and all went fine. It was added to my account without any payment. Thanks!
Tomislav Zlatic
onCheers!