Imbibaphones: Wine Glass Kontakt Instrument by Soundiron

The core of the library is a set of glass strikes and sustains. Mallet strikes from the martini glass, red and white wine glasses, and a champagne flute are layered with round-robin and velocity variations. Plucked wine glass notes and harmonic multi-glass strike combinations add more texture.

The sustaining rim notes for the red and white wine glasses were recorded chromatically over an octave, with three modwheel-faded intensity layers and release samples. A broken wine glass adds mallet hits and stirring shard loops, which Soundiron notes can be blended with the modwheel.

Soundiron also included custom sound-designed ambiences, synth-like textures, drones and pads built from the original source recordings.

The Kontakt interface offers automation-ready controls for swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching, cross-fading and layering.

An adaptable LFO offers selectable shape, modulation target, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in time. Twelve lowpass, highpass and FX filters can be modulated from velocity, modwheel, expression, aftertouch, key position and step-sequencer table control.

The customizable arpeggiator includes a velocity table and controls for direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. A key and scale lock keeps notes within common scales.

A modular FX rack provides 18 DSP modules across 10 slots, which can be ordered freely. The convolution reverb includes 99 room, hall, chamber and outdoor impulse responses plus 40 custom FX impulses.