Hopkin Instrumentarium: Flat Gongs Kontakt Library
The deal
$29 at ADSR Sounds (down from $39, 26% off). No coupon needed. Sale ends October 6th.
What it is
Hopkin Instrumentarium: Flat Gongs is a Kontakt and Decent Sampler library from Soundiron, sampled from a custom-built 3.5-octave set of tuned flat aluminum disks created by instrument inventor Bart Hopkin. It captures 7,126 samples across soft and hard mallet strikes, edge hits, hand knocks, finger taps, rubs, and bowed scrapes, delivering clear, defined pitches instead of the chaotic wash of traditional Asian gongs. Sixty additional sound-designed ambient pads and drones round it out with an ethereal, sustained character built for cinematic scoring.
Who it's for
Film composers, game audio designers, and ambient producers looking for tuned metallic percussion and atmospheric textures they can drop straight into a scoring template.
Key features
- The instrument spans a handcrafted 3.5-octave aluminum gong set from a booming 30-inch low C2 up to a bright 7-inch G5
- It includes two blendable microphone positions (Close Stereo and Contact Mics) captured at 24-bit/48kHz with up to 8x round-robin variation and 8 velocity layers per note
- A 4-layer sound-shaping engine lets you mix acoustic strikes with synthetic underlays and pads, with independent swell, attack, release, tuning, and filter controls
- A built-in tempo-synced LFO and arpeggiator pair with a modular FX rack offering 27 insert effects across 8 slots, including custom convolution reverb
