Jonathans Glockenspiel - Free NI Kontakt Glockenspiel Instrument

Jonathans Glockenspiel by Jonathan Howe.

Jonathan Howe has released Jonathans Glockenspiel, a free glockenspiel sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt.

It consists of 1 and a half octave and I have sampled 7 velocity layers for each note. Naturally it can play in the keys of C, G and F but I have stretched some samples to make it a little more versatile.

Jonathans Glockenspiel is available for free download via Jonathan Howe’s SoundCloud (49.31MB download size, contains 16 audio samples in 24-bit WAV format and 2 instruments in NKI format for NI Kontakt).

The instrument is based on samples of a glockenspiel, with C, G, and F notes sampled across one and a half octave. The rest of the tones are painted red on the keyboard to indicate that they will be artificially pitched when pressed.

The Kontakt patch comes with a simple built-in reverb effect and a 3-band equalizer. You can use this instrument in any other sampler, though, since the individual WAV samples are also included!