Iron Pack 3 - Metal Tones is crafted from natural recordings of various resonant metal objects and surfaces. It's suitable for all music genres, offering tuned percussion and atmospheric instruments, including a metallic drum kit. The Iron Pack series is a collection of compact, affordable, and high - quality virtual instrument libraries for Kontakt and universal SFZ formats. These handcrafted musical palettes are great for inspiring your next original track or sound design. With 23 creative tuned percussion and atmospheric sounds, each carefully sculpted from natural recordings, these samples fit all music styles, from soundtrack scoring to experimental and ambient music. The percussion includes kicks, snares, shakers, ride cymbals, clangs, dings, and low impacts. The ambiences feature ethereal scrapes, steel pipe resonant overtones, and strings. The Kontakt interface provides automation - ready sound - shaping controls, 20 custom sound - designed FX presets, an adaptable LFO system, various filters, a customizable arpeggiator, a key and scale lock system, and a modular FX rack panel. The reverb effect offers a wide range of impulse responses. For those not using Kontakt, the library comes with universal SFZ presets that can be imported into many compliant engines, and we recommend the free Sforzando player. Features include 1 master NKI instrument bank, 14 SFZ presets, metal percussion, ambient pads, 13 ambience patches, 24 bit/48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples, 20 custom FX presets, 64 stereo samples, and it takes up 389 MB when installed. It also has flexible and intuitive multi - layer user interface controls and a full FX rack with convolution reverb.
Using Iron Pack 3 - Metal Tones is easy. First, if you're using the Kontakt format, make sure you have Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or later installed. Load the library into Kontakt, and you can start exploring the sound - shaping controls like swell, attack, and release. You can also use the custom FX presets to quickly add unique effects to your sounds. If you prefer the SFZ format, import the presets into an SFZ - compliant synth or sampler, and Sforzando is a great free option. When creating music, mix and match the metal percussion, ambient pads, and other sounds to fit your style. For best results, experiment with the different controls and presets. As for maintenance, keep your software updated to ensure compatibility and optimal performance. And remember to back up your library files in case of any issues.
