Iron Throne: Metallic Percussion Kontakt Instrument by Soundiron

Soundiron recorded the instrument by playing it with viola bows on the throne edges, which produces eerie melodic and dissonant tones. The library includes several bowed sets, among them long sustains, medium glissando effects, short staccato, spiccato and tremolo sustains.

Percussive articulations cover a wide range of techniques. Finger drags, rubber ball rubs and flat mallet rubs were made by dragging mallets or fingers along the surfaces in long arcs and lines, which makes the object resonate much like a rubbed gong. Mallet strikes use wooden, felt and metal-tipped mallets to produce metal percussion sets. Brush, finger and comb effects add further texture.

The Kontakt interface gives you automation-ready control over swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching, cross-fading and layering.

An LFO section offers selectable shapes, modulation targets, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in time. You can choose from 12 low-pass, high-pass and FX filters. A customizable arpeggiator adds control over direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration, and a key and scale lock keeps melodic ideas inside common scales.

The modular FX rack provides 18 DSP modules across 10 slots, which you can order as you like. Reverb uses convolution impulse responses for 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses.