Cosmic Hand Pans: Steel Handpan Kontakt Instrument by Soundiron

The collection includes three handpans with up to four microphone positions each. The traditional D minor handpan is sampled with fingerpads, fingertips, small soft rubber mallets and jazz brushes. Soundiron describes its tone as dark, warm and mellow, with harmonic overtones.

The two hybrid instruments are more aggressive. One is a prototype that combines a standard tongue drum with a handpan resonator face, with a brash, plucky sound and intense overtones. The other is a signature Hybrid Handpan with handpan finger dimples on its face and tuned tongues on its belly, sampled with soft rubber finger mallets, finger rolls, superball mallets and giant rubber mallets.

Each sound can be mixed, layered, retuned and customized through a multi-layered modular interface. The adaptable LFO system offers selectable shape, modulation target, speed, intensity, tempo syncing and fade-in time.

The library includes 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters with assignable modulation targets such as velocity, mod wheel, expression, aftertouch, key position and step-sequencer control. A customizable arpeggiator provides a velocity table and control over direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. A key and scale lock keeps notes within common scales for melodic composition and live play.