Oops! All Cowbell

A giant collection of cowbells, woodblocks & more for Kontakt

Golly, how’d that happen?! Soundiron accidentally recorded a gigantic library of cowbells at a grand historic concert hall! Somehow it ended up with a variety of articulations for 8 different cowbells from huge to tiny, plus 8 woodblock sizes, a Meinl Galaxy, Liquid Triangle and a Flexatone. It’s got 42 well-balanced articulations, all with extensive dynamic detail and variation. It also comes packed with a variety of sustaining rolls and a bank of playful Flexatone cinematic/comic effects. It even comes in 4 delicious microphone flavors: Close, Vintage, Stage Overheads and Hall Blend! Sometimes, you just gotta have more!

The Soundiron team also apparently tripped (hard) and inadvertently sound-designed a creative selection of 32 ambient leads and pads from the raw acoustic source - a Soundiron specialty! Then they went ahead and built it into an intuitive 4-layer instrument interface for both Kontakt (full version) and the free Decent Sampler. It’s even got open-source SFZ presets for the harcore technie nerds (like us)! They would have said April Fools, but somehow they actually made this thing, it’s dirt-cheap and it really freakin’ rocks! This one’s 100% Soundiron fortified! Buy a box of Oops! All Cowbell today!

This library comes with an adaptable LFO system, with selectable LFO shape, modulation target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing and fade-in time. You can also apply your choice of 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, with assignable modulation targets such as velocity, modwheel, expression, after-touch, key position and step-sequencer table control. The customizable arpeggiator offers a velocity table and control over arp direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. Also included are a key and scale lock system to constrain your notes to common scales and keys for easy melodic composition and live performance. 

The interface is rounded-out by a modular FX rack panel, with 27 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of 8 available slots, in any order that you wish. You’ll find classic phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ, rotator and so much more. The Reverb effect includes Soundiron's favorite convolution reverb impulse responses, including 99 different rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor environments, plus another 40 custom FX impulses to radically transform the sound and open up whole new worlds of musical possibility. Soundiron have added a great bank of FX rack chain factory presets to get you started!

Features

• 8 different sized cowbells, 8 woodblocks, a Meinl Galaxy, Liquid Triangle and a Flexatone 
• 4 microphone positions, up to 10 round robin and 15 velocity layers per articulation 
• 32 ambient pads and evolving drones created from the source content 
• 21 Powerful Kontakt .nki instrument presets 
• 12 Powerful Decent Sampler presets 
• 30,602 stereo samples in unlocked .WAV format 
• 21.9 GB Installed 
• A flexible, intuitive user interface and mixer with pro features and deep customizability 
• Full FX rack with convolution reverb with custom rooms, halls, chambers & FX environments 

System Requirements

• The full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt version 5.5.2 (or later) is required to use .nki instrument presets included in this library.

• The free Kontakt "Player" and "Add Library" import processes do not support this standard open-format Kontakt library.

• Windows XP or higher.

• Mac OSX 10.6 or higher.

• Dual-Core CPU, 2 GB System Ram, SATA or SSD hard drive recommended for this library.

Important Notes:

The FULL Version of Kontakt 6.2.2+ is required in order to use this instrument. You will be stuck in DEMO MODE if trying to use this instrument in the FREE Kontakt Player.