Ancient Greek Strings

Ancient Greek Strings is an inspiring collection of 7 deeply sampled stringed instruments for Kontakt that delve into the historic roots of Western musical traditions, stretching back thousands of years. This library features a Barbiton, Cithara, Lyre, Goat Horn Lyre, Pandura, Phorminx, and Trigonon. Crafted of wood, gut, and goat skins, these classic musical artifacts capture the sound and spirit of classical Greek civilization at its height. The influence they have had on modern harps, guitars, and zithers is clearly audible and plain to see in these faithful reconstructions. Each piece was hand-crafted by master craftsman Panagiotis Stefos of LyrAvlos in Athens. Stefos and his team played each instrument, all recorded in exquisite detail by producer John Valasis, with 8 round-robins and 4 dynamic velocities per string.

You'll enjoy our flexible GUI features, with independent close and overhead mic positions, a wide selection of chromatic and special effect articulations, and a bank of 20 sound-designed ambiences created from the raw acoustic source for added texture and creative potential. Ancient Greek Strings features 15,158 24-bit samples and is 8.23 GB installed.

The Kontakt interface includes a suite of automation-ready sound-shaping controls to give you total creative flexibility. You have control over swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, pitch (coarse & fine), articulation switching, cross-fading and layering, and so much more. We've also included 20 unique sound-designed custom FX presets to give you lots of creative options.

This library comes with an adaptable LFO system, with selectable LFO shape, modulation target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing, and fade-in time. You can also apply your choice of 12 lowpass, high-pass, and FX filters, with assignable modulation targets such as velocity, modwheel, expression, after-touch, key position, and step-sequencer table control. Our customizable arpeggiator offers a velocity table and control over arp direction, timing, swing, randomization, and duration. We’ve included a key and scale lock system to constrain your notes to common scales and keys for easy melodic composition and live performance.

The interface is rounded out by our modular FX rack panel, with 18 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of 10 available slots, in any order that you wish. You’ll find classic phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ, rotator, and so much more. The Reverb effect includes our favorite convolution reverb impulse responses, including 99 different rooms, halls, chambers, and outdoor environments, plus another 40 custom FX impulses to radically transform the sound and open up whole new worlds of musical possibility. We’ve added a great bank of FX rack chain factory presets to get you started!

Key Features:

• Instruments Included: Barbiton, Cithara, Lyre, Goat Horn Lyre, Pandura, Phorminx, Trigonon
• Recording Details: 8 round-robins and 4 dynamic velocities per string
• Samples: 15,158 24-bit samples, 8.23 GB installed
• Interface Controls: Swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, pitch, articulation switching, cross-fading, layering, and more
• Custom FX Presets: 20 unique sound-designed presets
• LFO System: Selectable LFO shape, modulation target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing, fade-in time
• Filters: 12 lowpass, high-pass, and FX filters with assignable modulation targets
• Arpeggiator: Velocity table, control over arp direction, timing, swing, randomization, duration
• Modular FX Rack: 18 DSP effect modules, 10 assignable slots
• Reverb: 99 convolution reverb impulse responses, 40 custom FX impulses