Maxx McGee has released Three Cowbells, a freely downloadable cowbell sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt 5.8.0 or higher.
Three Cowbells requires the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5. It will only work in demo mode in the free Kontakt Player instrument, resulting in silence after fifteen minutes of use.
The library features three different cowbells which were played with three different articulations (stick, beater, and mallet). The samples were recorded using close and room mics with eight round-robin variations and five velocity layers per sample. The custom user interface for NI Kontakt provides direct access to volume, pan, tune, and resonance controls for each cowbell, along with microphone balance, reverb, dampening, and articulation adjustments.
The sampled cowbells sound very good so be sure to download the library if you’re looking to add more percussion to your arsenal. You know the famous words – MORE COWBELL! The only problem is that the download server seems to be very slow at the moment, resulting in corrupted files and download errors. I managed to obtain my free copy of Three Cowbells after quite a few failed download attempts.
Three Cowbells is available for free download via Maxx McGee’s website (309 MB download size, ZIP archive, compatible with Native Instruments Kontakt 5.8.0 or higher).
2 Comments
Bryan Lake
onI got a feva…….and the only prescription is………
Maxx
onThanks for the article! This is my first professional instrument release and it was born out of the “more cowbell” joke. Became a quite ambitious project and a test, that’s why it’s free.
The site got overrun with downloads, but the server situation is improving every day. Working on it!
I try my best to support everybody who mails me providing manual links for download.
Never expected such a big feedback and I’m really glad people love cowbells so much :) They all got a fever obviously…