Imbibaphones Black Friday Deal 2026: $9.50, 50% off

Imbibaphones Black Friday pricing starts at 50% off this Soundiron Kontakt library of sampled glassware, so it comes to $9.50 until Dec 6, 2026.

The library is Soundiron's take on the musical wine glass, an instrument that caught on in the 18th century. Besides wine goblets, the team sampled a martini glass, a champagne flute and, after a happy accident, a broken glass.

Each glass was captured two ways: natural finger-rubbed sustains and soft mallet strikes.

What is inside the Imbibaphones library?

The contents are built around these sources:

• Martini glass, red wine glass, white wine glass and champagne flute struck with mallets, with 10 round robins and up to 6 velocity layers
• Plucked wine glass and harmonic multi-glass strike combos
• Red and white wine glass rim sustains, recorded chromatically over an octave with release samples
• Broken wine glass hits and stirring shard loops
• Sound-designed ambiences, "synths", drones and pads made from the raw source material

The sustaining notes were mostly recorded at three speeds. You fade between them with the modwheel.

Version 2.0 fixed a variety of tuning issues and added short and looping sound-designed articulations.

How do you shape the sound?

The Kontakt interface has automation-ready controls for swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter and pitch (coarse and fine). You can also switch articulations, cross-fade and layer them.

There is an LFO with selectable shape, target, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in time. The 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters can be modulated by velocity, modwheel, expression, aftertouch, key position or a step-sequencer table.

The arpeggiator has a velocity table and controls for direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. A key and scale lock keeps your notes inside common scales.

The FX rack offers 18 DSP modules across 10 slots, in any order. That includes phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ and rotator.

The convolution reverb carries 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses. There are also 20 sound-designed FX and ambient presets and a bank of FX rack chain presets.

Formats and system requirements

Imbibaphones is an open-format Kontakt library, built for the full retail version of Kontakt 5.5 or later. The free Kontakt Player runs it only in demo mode. It will not appear in the Libraries tab, so load it through the Files browser or the Quickload window.

The samples are 24-bit/48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav files, and the directories are unlocked for other wav-compatible samplers.

It needs Windows 7 or higher, or Mac OSX 10.9 or higher. Soundiron recommends a dual-core CPU, 3 GB of RAM and a SATA or SSD drive. It ships as a digital download.