Hopkin Instrumentarium: Weighted Strings by Soundiron is an innovative virtual instrument library for Kontakt, featuring two custom creations by instrument inventor Bart Hopkin: the Weighted Lyre and the Weighted Zither. These handcrafted instruments use small weights on the strings to alter overtone relationships, producing unique and beautiful sounds.

Key features:

• Weighted Lyre with 17 main strings and 3 additional frettable strings, designed to emphasize octave overtones
• Weighted Zither with 34 chromatically tuned main strings, producing highly inharmonic and random overtone qualities
• 9,204 stereo samples in 24-bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM WAV format
• Three stereo mic positions: Close, Room, and Contact
• 22 powerful Kontakt .nki instrument presets
• 20 ambient pads and evolving drones created from the raw acoustic source
• Automation-ready sound-shaping controls, including swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, pitch, articulation switching, cross-fading, and layering
• Adaptable LFO system with selectable shapes, modulation targets, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing, and fade-in time
• Customizable arpeggiator with velocity table and control over direction, timing, swing, randomization, and duration
• Modular FX rack with 27 DSP effect modules, including convolution reverb with 99 different rooms, halls, chambers, and outdoor environments, plus 40 custom FX impulses

This library provides extensive sound-shaping capabilities, making it suitable for both traditional and experimental compositions. It requires the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 6.2.2 or later and is not compatible with the free