Soundiron Ancient Greek Compendium

This bundle includes:

• Ancient Greek Percussion
• Ancient Greek Strings
• Ancient Greek Winds

Ancient Greek Compendium is a grand trio of products: Ancient Greek Strings, Winds, and Percussion.

Explore the oldest roots of Western musical traditions, stretching back thousands of years, and likely with roots that easily predate all of recorded history.

Crafted of wood, gut, and goat skins, these classic musical artifacts capture the sound and spirit of classical Greek civilization at its height.

Each instrument was handcrafted using period-accurate methods, building materials, and tools by the Athens-based historical research group LyrΑvlos, led by Panagiotis Stefos.

LyrAvlos played each instrument, all recorded in exquisite detail by producer John Valasis.

Strings include a Barbiton, Cithara, Lyre, Goat Horn Lyre, Pandura, Phorminx, and Trigonon.

Winds include single and double-reeded aulos flutes from bass to alto, as well as conch shell horns, brass salpinx horn, pan flute, and plagiaulos.

Percussion features a Crotalum, Kymbalon, Sistrum, 15-inch Tympanon, 22-inch Tympanon, and Tympanon Zill.

These samples have a rich and colorful tone you won't find anywhere else.

Contents

The Kontakt interface includes a suite of automation-ready sound-shaping controls to give you total creative flexibility.

You have control over the swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, pitch (coarse & fine), articulation switching, cross-fading, and layering, and so much more.

This library comes with an adaptable LFO system, with selectable LFO shape, modulation target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing, and fade-in time.

You can also apply your choice of 12 low-pass, high-pass, and FX filters, with assignable modulation targets such as velocity, mod wheel, expression, after-touch, key position, and step-sequencer table control.

The customizable arpeggiator offers a velocity table and control over arp direction, timing, swing, randomization, and duration.

A key and scale lock system is included to constrain your notes to common scales and keys for easy melodic composition and live performance.

The interface is rounded-out by the modular FX rack panel, with 27 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of the 8 available slots, in any order you wish.

You'll find classic phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ, rotator, and so much more.

The Reverb effect includes our favorite convolution reverb impulse responses, including 99 different rooms, halls, chambers, and outdoor environments, plus another 40 custom FX impulses to radically transform the sound and open up whole new worlds of musical possibility.

We've added a great bank of FX rack chain factory presets to get you started!

Kontakt Format

This library is designed for the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 6.2.2 or later. Kontakt is an industry-standard advanced virtual instrument software platform. You can view screenshots of this library's custom graphical user interface in the image gallery above. This library is packed with features to provide you a wide range of sound shaping parameter controls, each one totally automation-ready in your host environment or Kontakt's stand-alone mode.

This is a standard Kontakt open-format library, so the free Kontakt Player does not fully support it and can only run it in a limited "demo mode". However, the sample directories are unlocked so you can use them in other wav-compatible software, sampler, and synth formats. The special Libraries tab doesn't support this open-format Kontakt library, but you can use the standard File browser tab and import this library into the Kontakt Quickload window for easy loading and navigation.

Features

• Deeply sampled Ancient Greek Strings, Winds, and Percussion
• A wide variety of instrument plucks, sustains, staccatos, strikes, rolls, sound effects, ambiences
• 84 Powerful Kontakt .nki instrument presets
• 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples
• 60 ambient pads and drones created from the source content
• 22,773 stereo samples
• 15.5 GB Installed
• Flexible and intuitive multi-layer user interface controls, with LFO, filter, glide, and arpeggiator
• Full FX rack with convolution reverb with custom rooms, halls, chambers & FX environments