Tablas tabla percussion library by Soundiron Kontakt instrument interface

Tablas: Tabla Percussion Library for Kontakt by Soundiron

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Tablas is a Kontakt percussion library from Soundiron that samples the Indian tabla, a pair of hand drums, in deep multi-sampled detail. It includes live performance phrases, loops, sound-design presets and ambient textures.

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01Overview

Tablas is built around the tabla, a pair of contrasting hand drums used in Hindustani classical and devotional music. Soundiron recorded the library with tabla master and jazz percussionist Sameer Gupta, capturing rhythm, melody and expressive phrasing. The library runs in Kontakt and includes a full set of instrument banks, loops and processed ambiences. Soundiron describes it as suited to soundtracks and production music.

Best for

Tabla percussion parts
Cinematic percussion
Soundtrack textures
Production music beds
Ambient pads from percussion
Sample-based loop building

Developer: Soundiron
Category: Kontakt Instruments
Requires: Kontakt
Store: Plugin Boutique

02Key features

What you get

Two master NKI instrument banks in open Kontakt format
3,703 stereo samples totaling 3.53 GB installed
24-bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM WAV samples
20 sound-designed FX and ambient presets
Unlocked presets and WAV samples for user customization
Multi-sampled tabla performance phrases and multi-tempo loops
Four-layer interface with LFO, filter, glide and arpeggiator
Convolution reverb FX rack with rooms, halls and chambers

03In depth

Sound Layers and Performance Controls

The main master preset holds all the multi-samples along with expression features. Four independent sound layers each provide parameters for swell, attack, start offset, release with pad mode, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, sound bank selection and crossfader assignment.

Layer 3 is an ambience layer built from heavily manipulated source recordings, with tonal and dissonant pads, synth tones and dreamscapes. These can be played alone or blended with Layers 1 and 2. A separate Sub-Synth layer offers a basic synthesizer with 10 shapes for transient and tonal support.

Loops, Modulation and Arpeggiator

The Tablas Loops preset contains more than 1,350 loops from 70 to 165 BPM. A built-in browser previews loops, filters by tempo and lets you star favorites. Loops can be adjusted slice by slice, with playback direction, tempo sync, half-time or double-time, slice order, ADSR and step automation for volume, pitch, pan, filter cutoff and resonance.

Per-layer LFOs, 13 filters and an arpeggiator with a velocity sequencer table, swing and randomization give further shaping options. A key and scale lock keeps melodies within common scales.

04Specs

Will it run?

Formats, systems and requirements as listed by Plugin Boutique. Missing details are left out, not guessed.

Developer	Soundiron
Type	Plugin
Category	Kontakt Instrument
Requires	Kontakt
Formats	Kontakt
Operating systems	Windows, macOS

05FAQ

Questions, answered

What do I need to use Tablas?

Tablas requires the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.8 or later. The free Kontakt Player and Add Library import process do not support this open-format library.

Which operating systems does Tablas support?

Tablas supports Windows 7 or higher and Mac OS X 10.9 or higher. A dual-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM are listed as minimums, with an SSD recommended for this library.

Are the WAV samples usable outside Kontakt?

Yes. Soundiron named each WAV file by category and keywords and organized them into folders, so they can be used directly in cinematic sound design, video games and media post-production.