Ancient Greek Winds Black Friday Deal 2026: $29.50, 50% off

The Ancient Greek Winds Black Friday deal takes 50% off a Soundiron Kontakt library of nine traditional Greek woodwinds, which comes to $29.50 until Dec 6, 2026.

It is a collection of nine sampled instruments from the classical Hellenistic period. The maker describes them as restored artefacts, and every one is fully playable inside Kontakt.

What is in the Ancient Greek Winds library?

The lineup covers single and double-reeded aulos flutes from bass to alto, conch shell horns, a brass salpinx horn, a pan flute and a plagiaulos.

Each instrument ships with sustains, staccatos, true legato, dynamic expressions and effects matched to how that instrument behaves.

Soundiron pitches it as the melodic partner to its Ancient Greek Strings and Ancient Greek Percussion libraries.

How were the instruments made and recorded?

The instruments were hand-crafted with period-accurate methods, materials and tools by LyrΑvlos, an Athens-based historical research group led by Panagiotis Stefos. They are built from wood, reeds, conch shells and bronze.

Producer John Valasis recorded them with round-robin variations and multiple dynamics and voicings.

Valasis is a Greek-born composer and sound designer who works from an Athens studio.

What can you do with it inside Kontakt?

The interface gives you performance and sound-shaping controls that are ready for automation:

• True legato response control and simulated portamento bending
• Swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter and coarse and fine pitch
• Articulation switching, cross-fading and layering
• An LFO with selectable shape, target, speed, intensity, tempo-sync and fade-in
• 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, assignable to targets like velocity, modwheel, aftertouch and key position
• An arpeggiator with a velocity table and control over direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration
• A key and scale lock to keep notes inside common scales

A modular FX rack offers 18 DSP modules across 10 slots, in any order. Phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors and EQ are in there.

The convolution reverb carries 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses for heavier transformations. Factory FX rack presets are included as starting points.

Soundiron also built 20 sound-designed ambiences from the raw source recordings, along with 20 custom FX and ambient presets.

Size and system requirements

The library holds 3,517 stereo samples at 24-bit and 48kHz, and installs at 4.13 GB as one master NKI bank in open Kontakt format.

It needs Kontakt Full Version 5.5 or later, Windows 7 or higher or Mac OSX 10.9 or higher, a dual-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM. The maker recommends a SATA or SSD drive.