The Bells



The Bells is a virtual instrument featuring the sound of tuned bell sounds.

Different sound design techniques have been used to create a range of highly usable bell tones.

From resynthesized acoustic bell to FM synthesis and physical models.

The instrument also features a nice set of real-life acoustic bell sounds.

The onboard effects of the plugin version make this plugin highly versatile for different genres of music from trap to modern classical music.



Features of the plugin version:

  • 15 bell sounds
  • Multi-LFO
  • Distortion, reverb, chorus, delay
  • Lowpass/highpass filter
  • Low-CPU usage
  • Amplitude range controls
  • 3 voice modes: polyphonic, monophonic, and legato

Decent Sampler version:


The Decent Sampler version features the same sounds as the plugin version but has different effects and sound-shaping capabilities. Decent Sampler is a free sampler VST/VST3/AAX/AU/AUv3 and is compatible with Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS. There's also a standalone version.

Kontakt 5/6/7 version:


The Kontakt version has amplitude and filter ADSRs as well as reverb. The Kontakt 5/6 version requires the full version of Kontakt 5/6 and up. It must be the latest updated version.

Audio Demo:



A really nice demo by a The Bells user:




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Compatible with all OS via Decent Sampler!*


Compatible with all major DAWs!


Requirements for the plugin version:

  • Windows 8.1/10/11 or macOS 10.12 and up
  • 104 MB of HD space
  • 2GHz Quad-core CPU or better with 4 GB of RAM or more
  • 64-bit VSTi/VST3/AUi Host

Requirements for the Decent Sampler version:


Requirements for the Kontakt 5/6/7 version:

  • The latest version of Kontakt 5 or Kontakt 6 and up
  • It must be the full version, it won't work in the free Kontakt Player
  • 237 MB of HD space

*except Android