Tuned Artillery Kontakt percussion library by Soundiron, metallic shell instrument interface

Tuned Artillery: Tuned Brass Shell Percussion Library for Kontakt

Tuned Artillery is a Kontakt percussion instrument from Soundiron, built from recordings of spent brass artillery shell casings, a military helmet and decommissioned grenades, playable as tuned and untuned sounds.

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01Overview

Tuned Artillery is a plugin from Soundiron that turns recordings of WWI and WWII era brass shell casings into playable instruments. The library also includes an Eastern Bloc infantry combat helmet and a few decommissioned modern hand grenades. Each object was captured with multiple velocity layers and articulations, including dry booth recordings alongside hall recordings, giving producers a wide palette of metallic pings, scrapes, clunks and bounces for score, sound design and experimental work.

Best for

Film score textures
Metallic percussion hits
Experimental sound design
Tuned percussion melodies
Ambient soundscapes
Video game audio

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

02Key features

What you get

Three master NKI instrument banks in open Kontakt format
Helmet and grenade pings, scrapes, bounces and clunks in four mic positions
64 ambience patches created from the source recordings
24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM WAV samples
20 custom sound-designed FX and ambient presets
3,060 stereo samples totaling 3.37 GB installed
LFO, filter, glide and arpeggiator with key and scale lock
Full FX rack with convolution reverb rooms and halls

03In depth

Sound and Character of the Metallic Samples

Each source object is struck on its sides, edges and base with mallets, sticks, brushes or bare hands, and the samples keep the resonance of the brass. Soundiron recorded every piece in four mic positions, so the samples cover close, wide and far perspectives.

The library includes both tuned and untuned material. Pitched shell sounds can be played over a key range, while untuned hits work as anvil-like percussive accents. The 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed WAV samples leave room for detailed processing.

Workflow, Controls and Included Presets

The Kontakt interface offers swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching, cross-fading and layering controls. An LFO system with selectable shapes, tempo sync and fade-in time sits alongside 12 filters and an arpeggiator with velocity table, direction, swing and randomization.

The library ships with three master NKI instrument banks, 64 ambience patches built from the source content, and 20 sound-designed FX and ambient presets. A key and scale lock helps keep melodic lines in key.

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 is Tuned Artillery?

Tuned Artillery is a Kontakt library from Soundiron made from recordings of spent brass artillery shells, a military helmet and decommissioned grenades. It offers tuned and untuned metallic percussion.

What do I need to use Tuned Artillery?

It requires the full version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or above. The software will only run in demo mode in the free Kontakt Player.

Which operating systems does Tuned Artillery support?

The library is listed for Windows 7 or higher and Mac OS X 10.9 or higher. The listed minimum requirements include a dual-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM, with an SSD recommended.