Wavelet Audio is giving away their nylon guitar library The Deer, the Fox and the Guitar for free — a soft, intimate, fingerstyle nylon instrument that ranges from whisper-quiet finger-plucked tones to ambient textures, modern scoring beds, and even distorted sound design through its built-in FX rack and preset collection.
What you get
At its heart, the library captures finger-plucked nylon strings with a delicate, expressive tone. From there, the included presets push the instrument into cinematic territory — ambient pads, modern score textures, and fingerstyle articulations — all from a single guitar. The FX rack lets you sculpt each preset further, so you can get warm whisper tones in one slot and full sound-design textures in the next.
Sampling and engine
- Built-in FX rack
- 3 articulations
- Legato slides
- 4× round robin (down and up strokes)
- 4 dynamic layers
- 24-bit / 48 kHz lossless NCW format
- Snapshot library
- Original engine GUI
- Free Kontakt Player support (Kontakt 8.1.0 or later)
How to download and activate
On Wavelet Audio’s product page, hit “FREE Add To Cart” and check out at $0. A Native Instruments serial code will be emailed to you. Open Native Access 2, log in, click “Add Serial” in the bottom-left, paste the code, and install. The library runs in Kontakt 8.1.0 or later, including the free Kontakt Player.