Bronze Bin: Tuned Metallic Percussion Kontakt Instrument by Soundiron

The library's source instruments are the Bronze Bin and the Chrome Can. Samples cover multiple articulations, including finger sides, mallet bottoms, mallet edges, mallet rims, mallet sides and stick rims, with round-robin variations and several velocity layers on each.

The collection contains 794 stereo samples in 24-bit / 48 kHz uncompressed WAV format, totaling 1.25 GB installed. Soundiron also provides custom ambiences, drones and pads made from the source material, which extend the instrument beyond straight percussion.

The developer says the instrument produces a wide range of harmonics, overtones and undertones, from melodic bell tones to noisier textures.

The Kontakt interface offers automation-ready controls for swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching and cross-fading. Twenty custom sound-designed FX presets are included.

An LFO system provides selectable shapes, modulation targets, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in time. Twelve lowpass, highpass and FX filters can be assigned to modulation sources such as velocity, mod wheel, expression, aftertouch, key position and step-sequencer table control. The arpeggiator adds a velocity table and controls for direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration, and a key and scale lock keeps notes within chosen scales.

A modular FX rack provides 18 DSP effect modules that can be placed in any of 10 slots in any order. The convolution reverb includes 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor impulse responses, plus 40 custom FX impulses. Factory FX rack chain presets are also included.

The Kontakt presets and WAV samples are unlocked, so you can edit them.