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retro game sample kontakt library
A modern sampler toolkit inspired by Classic Console Sounds and lo-fi sounding Arcades.
PATCHES
160
SAMPLES
1593
SIZE
2.4 GB
€49Add to cart
CROUCHING FINGERS
Crouching Fingers is a modern retro game sample kontakt library inspired from 80 & 90ies Martial Arts aesthetics.
Requires full KONTAKT
Sounds were recorded onto VHS tapes with different input-levels. And recorded back to DAW, before mapping to KONTAKT
RUNAR LINDVALL COMPOSING WITH CROUCHING FINGERS
Are your chops ready to meet the challenge? The brutal world of The Crouching Fingers awaits
Bone-crunching lo-fi patches
A film going through all the tweaking possibilities :
We took inspiration from the fighter games we’ve grown up with. Mashed it together, and created library with a deadly punch. With some help from some empty cassettes and a VHS tapemachine.
Crouching Fingers: The essential Lo-fu music-generator.
€49Add to cart
Create randomisation within the sounds from the Sound-Sculpt [FX] menu
Crouching Fingers will lead you down a path of split kicks, intrigue and danger.
Old-school lo-fi retro vibes
Comes with a blood-red user interface
a wealth of punchy hybrid sampled creative and unusual patches to explore
near-infinite tweakability with our mighty sound shaping tools
save precious screen space or expand the user interface
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“, fat low end, and shooting stars found pretty much everywhere in Crouching Fingers.”
-Inherently
“With sounds that slap. And jab; and twist; and pull your hair.”
– B.A.
“‘Every composer for himself!’ – JK
“Tying on my headband now and grabbing my nunchucks”
–Remnant
“a super-concentrated nostalgia machine”
–Proggermusic
“While it might seem niche this library actually contains broad palette of different sounds which I find very inspiring!”
–Petrucci
▾ PATCHES
▾ PLUCK PATCHES
PART II
Learn to master control of your Chi Energy and perfect the legendary Dim Mak death touch with these bone-crushing Kung-Fu presets
▾ PATCHES
LONG AND FX PATCHES :
- •ba – dark boot
- •ba – pig [mw]
- •ba – pig II
- •be water
- •blinded spot
- •blood kick
- •camp base
- •connected to feelings too
- •destiny of the chosen
- •drums lo-fu
- •drunken sinner
- •eagle claw
- •eye for an eye
- •fat dragon
- •fearless commando wah
- •flute kombat
- •formidable foe
- •funky dagger
- •fx breaking wood
- •fx computer says wow
- •fx dumpy stones
- •fx hit in the fuzz
- •guilty brass
- •hammer fist
- •high alert
- •homebound
- •in the groin
- •inner journey
- •kaputt vhs rapture
- •kings and giants
- •lazer sharp feedback
- •legends from ancient times
- •memories amiga
- •mighty opponent
- •motor – deadly entrance
- •not ending well
- •phasing dragon
- •powerful creature
- •powerstack [mw]
- •punched in the throat
- •revelator
- •rotten ground
- •sad melody
- •secret scrolls
- •shaky nerves
- •showdown
- •slow chops
- •spear fight
- •swamp creature
- •the hero will rise
- •ugly trix
- •victorious princess
- •videogame
- •wahwy pixel
- •wave of the finger
- •weed melody
- •wheels on meals
- •worn electrics
▾ PLUCK PATCHES
PLUCK AND SHORT NOTES :
- •plk a clear mind
- •plk adventure
- •plk bader than bad
- •plk blast the plast
- •plk broken disciples
- •plk family at home
- •plk Fingers of Fury
- •plk force of plastic
- •plk hand in the dark
- •plk hard electric elements
- •plk harpsicord DX
- •plk Harpsicord Rich
- •plk in love with a pixel
- •plk iron finger
- •plk italian ninja
- •plk jumping donkey
- •plk karata saw
- •plk knuckle
- •plk match day
- •plk no plan b
- •plk no retreat
- •plk one horned
- •plk palm strike
- •plk police story
- •plk rebreakable arm
- •plk riingmodulated
- •plk samura brura
- •plk scrotum
- •plk Sleepy Foot
- •plk steel nail
- •plk the dust settles
- •plk the radio
- •plk thin bamboo pluck
- •plk tight hyena
- •plk tug on this
PART II
CROUCHING FINGERS PART II
- action biker
- advanced tactical fighter
- afterburn
- alive
- archery range
- ark pandora
- arkanoid
- axe battle
- battle theme 1
- battlefield
- big deal
- bionic commando
- black lamp
- blasteroids
- blood money
- blood valley
- bomb jack
- bounder
- brittanic lands
- bubble bobble
- cannon rider
- centurion
- chain reaction
- commando
- crackdown
- crossbow
- crossfire
- death bringer
- defender of the crown
- deflector
- delta
- dig dug
- draconus
- dragon riders of pern
- dream of lady nan
- druid drunk
- enduro racer
- engagement and melee
- enigma force
- exodus castle
- f-14 tom-cat
- fairlight
- final level
- finders keepers
- firelord
- formula one simulator
- frogger
- get ready
- ghosts and goblins
- golden axe
- gradius
- gyropod
- high noon
- human race
- hunter patrol
- insert disk theme
- international karate
- invincibility
- jet power jack
- joyous reunion
- jumpman junior
- kendo warrior
- kikstart
- knight games
- last ninja
- prince of the yolk
- soft armageddon
FAQ :
Frequently Asked Questions
Crouching Fingers is a Retro Game Sound Kontakt Library, designed as a tribute to classic 80s arcade aesthetics. It combines multi-sampled vintage synths, arpeggiated textures, lo-bit FX, and chip-based percussion into a nerdy hardcore scoring toolkit.
The library includes a curated set of instruments inspired by 8‑bit and 16‑bit consoles, such as:
Square, triangle, pulse, and noise-based waveforms
SID‑style basslines and leads
Retro arpeggiators and looping phrases
Lo-fi digital drums and FX
Bleepy transitions, glitch hits, detuned pads
Chords and harmonized patches straight from the arcade cabinet era
All sounds are recorded and processed to retain their vintage bite, while remaining flexible for modern production needs.
Sounds were recorded onto VHS tapes with different input-levels. And recorded back to DAW, before mapping to KONTAKT
Game composers scoring indie or retro-inspired games
Electronic musicians creating chiptune, synthwave, or bitpop
Film and trailer composers looking for punchy lofi color
Sound designers creating UI sounds or glitchy transitions
No. While not a pure chiptune tracker emulation, Crouching Fingers is a chiptune-inspired sample library, capturing the flavor and imperfection of vintage hardware, but with all the flexibility of modern production tools and Kontakt’s scripting engine.
Yes. All patches are keymapped, velocity-sensitive, and support mod wheel automation, making them performance-ready. They’re great for MIDI sequencing, layering, and real-time triggering inside your DAW.
Absolutely! Crouching Fingers is an essential toolkit for game composers and sound designers specializing in retro video games, indie game development, or projects needing a distinct 80s sound. It provides all the necessary building blocks to compose authentic and engaging game soundtracks that evoke nostalgia and perfectly match your pixel-art or retro-themed game.
Crouching Fingers is a curated sampler toolkit built from the ground up with a focus on the sound estetics of classic console and arcade sound design. It’s not a copy, or direct samples of these, but more sounds inspired from classic game consoles like the NES, SNES, Sega Master System, and Sega Genesis
It will take up 2.4 GB of free diskspace. And it needs the Full Retail Version of Kontakt 6.4.2 [or later] to run
FEATURES:
- Instant download
- Resizable UI
- Channel strips
- Custom in-built IRs
- Online User Handbook
- Comes in Blood-red colors
- Retro Game Sound FX
- SID-like leads
- 8-bit’ish Percussion with punch
- noise-based percs
- Wobbly synth basses
- retro synth – lead, short notes and pads
INCLUDES:
- 1593 samples
- 160 patches
A punchy toolkit for those who want to create synth music inspired from fighter movies & games of the days of Betamax and VHS tapes.