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Ancient Greek Strings Black Friday pricing is 50% off, which puts this Soundiron Kontakt library of seven Greek stringed instruments at $29.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
The library covers a Barbiton, Cithara, Lyre, Goat Horn Lyre, Pandura, Phorminx and Trigonon. Soundiron says the instruments are built from wood, gut and goatskin, and that they trace the sound of classical Greek civilization at its height.
It is a deeply sampled Kontakt instrument collection. Each instrument was hand-built by master craftsman Panagiotis Stefos of Lyravlos in Athens, and Stefos and his team played them for the recording.
John Valasis produced the sessions. He is a Greek-born composer, producer and sound designer working from an Athens studio, and his client list includes Native Instruments, Ableton, Soundiron and the BBC.
Lyravlos is a historical organization, ensemble and research group. It recreates bronze age instruments from the same raw materials craftsmen used in Athens in 430 BC.
Everything loads from one master NKI instrument bank in open Kontakt format.
The panel gives you swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching, cross-fading and layering. You can mix the close and overhead mics independently.
An LFO system lets you pick the shape, target, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in time. Filters come in 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX types, and each can be driven by velocity, modwheel, expression, aftertouch, key position or the step-sequencer table.
The arpeggiator has a velocity table plus controls for direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. A key and scale lock keeps your notes inside common scales and keys.
The FX rack holds 18 DSP modules across 10 slots, in any order. You get phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ and a rotator.
The convolution reverb carries 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses. There are also 20 sound-designed FX presets and a bank of FX rack chain factory presets.
Yes. The Ancient Greek Strings Black Friday deal takes 50% off this Soundiron Kontakt library, bringing it to $29.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
The library samples seven instruments: Barbiton, Cithara, Lyre, Goat Horn Lyre, Pandura, Phorminx and Trigonon. Soundiron says they were hand-built by Panagiotis Stefos of Lyravlos in Athens from wood, gut and goatskin.
You need the full version of Kontakt 5.5 or later. It runs on Windows 7 or higher and Mac OSX 10.9 or higher, with a dual-core CPU and 2 GB RAM. A SATA or SSD drive is recommended.
The interface has an LFO, 12 filter types, an arpeggiator and a key and scale lock. There is also an FX rack with 18 modules across 10 slots, plus a convolution reverb with 99 spaces and 40 FX impulses.
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