Halloween Pumpkins is a Kontakt instrument from AudioThing built from samples of traditional Halloween pumpkins, with bowed textures, hits, plucked rubber bands and a fake transistor organ.
Halloween Pumpkins is a sound design library for Kontakt that turns carved-pumpkin percussion and textures into playable instruments. The collection includes 12 Kontakt Instruments and 5 Multis, so you can trigger the sounds directly or layer them in a patch. Its material is experimental by design, aimed at producers who want unusual, eerie timbres rather than conventional orchestral or synth sounds.
The library's sample sets cover bowed textures, short hits, plucked rubber bands and a fake transistor organ. The developer describes the pumpkins as sampled with two microphones: a large diaphragm condenser mic and a piezo attached directly to the skin. The two sources were mixed together to shape the final sound.
The bowed textures and hits suit tension-building passages, while the plucked and organ-style sounds work as offbeat melodic or rhythmic elements.
Halloween Pumpkins ships with 12 Kontakt Instruments (.nki) and 5 Kontakt Multis (.nkm), giving you ready-made starting points for different sound types. Up to 6 Round Robin samples per sound help reduce repetition when you play the same note often.
The package also includes one custom impulse response captured from the inside of a large pumpkin. You can apply it to your own sources to add a hollow, resonant space. The library is 76 MB and contains 76 samples at 44.1kHz / 24-bit.
Formats, systems and requirements as listed by Plugin Boutique. Missing details are left out, not guessed.
| Developer | AudioThing |
|---|---|
| Type | Plugin |
| Category | Kontakt Instrument |
| Requires | Kontakt |
| Formats | Kontakt |
Halloween Pumpkins requires the full version of Kontakt 4.2.4 or higher. It is a software instrument and does not run without the Kontakt engine.
The library is provided in Kontakt and WAV formats. The Kontakt files include 12 Instruments (.nki) and 5 Multis (.nkm).
Yes. It includes one custom impulse response captured from the inside of a large pumpkin, which you can use on your own audio for a hollow, resonant character.
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