Ancient Greek Winds Kontakt instrument interface by Soundiron with sampled woodwind artwork

Ancient Greek Winds: Sampled Greek Woodwind Kontakt Instrument

Ancient Greek Winds is a Kontakt instrument library from Soundiron featuring sampled traditional Greek woodwinds, including aulos flutes, conch shell horns, salpinx, pan flute and plagiaulos, with articulations, ambience patches and a built-in FX rack.

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01Overview

Ancient Greek Winds covers nine restored Greek woodwind and horn instruments, from bass to alto aulos flutes to conch shell horns, brass salpinx, pan flute and plagiaulos. The library is built for Kontakt and ships as one master NKI instrument bank. Its sample set totals 3,517 stereo WAV files in 24-bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM, and the installed size is 4.13 GB. Soundiron describes it as a melodic companion to its Ancient Greek Strings and Ancient Greek Percussion libraries.

Best for

Ancient-themed melodies
Film and game scoring
Ambient sound design
Textured pad layers
World music production
Melodic composition with scale lock

Developer: Soundiron
Category: Kontakt Instruments
Requires: Kontakt
Store: Plugin Boutique

02Key features

What you get

One master NKI instrument bank in open Kontakt format
Five articulations and wind effects across the instrument set
20 ambience patches created from the source recordings
24-bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM WAV samples
3,517 stereo WAV files totaling 4.13 GB installed
LFO, filter, glide and arpeggiator interface controls
Full FX rack with convolution reverb and custom environments
20 custom sound-designed FX and ambient presets

03In depth

Sound Sources and Articulations

The library samples each instrument with multiple articulations and wind effects. Soundiron says the instruments were hand-crafted using period-accurate methods and materials by the Athens-based research group Lyravlos, and recorded by producer John Valasis with round-robin variations and several dynamics and voicings.

Across the set you get five articulation types for the aulos, conch shells, pan flute, plagiaulos and salpinx, plus 20 ambience patches built from the source recordings. These give you raw melodic material as well as textured sound-designed beds.

Controls, Arpeggiator and FX Rack

The Kontakt interface offers LFO, filter, glide and arpeggiator controls, with the arpeggiator covering direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. A key and scale lock keeps notes within chosen scales for melodic writing and live play.

A full FX rack includes convolution reverb with custom rooms, halls, chambers and FX environments, along with 20 custom sound-designed FX and ambient presets to start from.

04Specs

Will it run?

Formats, systems and requirements as listed by Plugin Boutique. Missing details are left out, not guessed.

Developer	Soundiron
Type	Plugin
Category	Kontakt Instrument
Requires	Kontakt
Formats	Kontakt
Operating systems	Windows, macOS

05FAQ

Questions, answered

What do I need to use Ancient Greek Winds?

Ancient Greek Winds requires Kontakt, with Kontakt Full Version 5.5 or later. It supports Windows 7 or higher and macOS 10.9 or higher.

What formats and operating systems does it support?

The library is released in Kontakt format and supports Windows and macOS. Windows 7 or higher and Mac OS X 10.9 or higher are listed as requirements.

How much disk space does the library need?

The installed size is 4.13 GB. Soundiron recommends a SATA or SSD hard drive for this library.

Does it include effects and presets?

Yes. It includes 20 custom sound-designed FX and ambient presets and a full FX rack with convolution reverb using custom rooms, halls, chambers and FX environments.