Fjord
The Fjord Collection channels the spirit of the Norse and Scandinavian traditions — warrior culture, sagas, sea voyages, and the connection between music, ritual, and the natural world. These four instruments are at the center of the Viking metal, neofolk, and dark ambient movements, equally at home in Heilung-inspired ceremony and blockbuster game scoring.
Nordic & Viking
The instruments of the Norse sagas — war horns, bowed lyres, and the keyed fiddles of Scandinavia.
Lur
Call of the North
A massive curved bronze horn from the Nordic Bronze Age (circa 1000 BCE). Found in pairs across Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, suggesting they were played in unison or call-and-response. The lur produces a deep, resonant, slightly unstable brass tone. The oldest known metal instrument in Northern Europe — pairs discovered in peat bogs date back 3,000 years.
Nyckelharpa
Keys of the North
A bowed string instrument with keys (tangents) that press against strings to change pitch. 16 strings: 3 melody, 1 drone, and 12 sympathetic resonance strings. Played in Sweden since the 14th century. UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (2023). The sympathetic strings create a shimmering quality beloved by ambient and film composers.
Tagelharpa
Viking Lyre
A bowed lyre with 3–4 horsehair strings, played upright on the knee. Produces a raw, droning, overtone-rich sound. Nearly extinct until the Viking music revival — Wardruna's Einar Selvik and Heilung brought it to millions. The horsehair-on-horsehair friction creates a sound unlike any other bowed instrument. The sound of pre-Christian Scandinavia.
Hurdy-Gurdy
Medieval Drone Machine
A crank-bowed drone instrument from medieval Europe (10th century onward). A rosined wheel turned by a crank bows the strings continuously while keys change the melody pitch. The constant drone plus melody combination is unique and highly sought-after for cinematic and gaming contexts. Massive renaissance in folk metal (Eluveitie) and neofolk.
Fjord Collection
4 plugins — coming 2026.
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Instruments from the Andes to the steppes — where cultures converge at the edge of the world.
Ceol
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Fuego
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The fire of flamenco, the passion of the Mediterranean, and the ancient musical bridge between continents.
Want it all?
Every plugin across all 14 collections — coming 2026.