An exploration of the niche world of glass clink sounds, celebrating their intrinsic qualities without the need for grand musical architectures.
Glass Percussion
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glass clinks, clanks and clunks. As well as textural RIVERLIKE variations callED “Klirr”.
Distinctive percussive strikes from cups and glasses
SAMPLED FOR KONTAKT
Current version
v 2.3
Instruments
26
Samples
5265
Size
2 GB
Recorded in a drumbooth, capturing the nuanced nuances of glass as it’s struck, struck, and struck again. This sample-library explores a wide array of straight-forward glass strokes. Focusing on their clean innate characteristics, without attempting to create any larger musical structures.
KLIRR
It also includes some different glass-river textures and soundscapes made by bowing, trembling and tapping on several glasses simultaneously.
films created with initial first version of the library
Sounds from various empty glasses in different size and shapes. And with a clear sound quality that makes it easy to blend into different styles of music or percussion sections.
Different mic positions allows for placing and adjusting the instruments to your mix.
The “Glass Percussion” user interface is intuitive and easy to play with advanced options behind all the controls
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GLASS RIVERS
There is also a little collection of glass “river” texture instruments, made by bowing, tapping or trembling. These are flimatic instruments that can colour and texture your music in tactile ways. And if you start up the FX engine, you can create ever- evolving glass-river-like oddities.
QUICK TIP :
Because of the transient (sometime static) nature of glass-clinks, the ““random sample-start button” is a useful tool to colour the sounds further, and to create variation. [RND]
Samples are mapped to pitch, so you may use them as melodic percussion, as well as bright perc or deep clanks.
Comes with an elegant and intuitive user interface
a wealth of single hits, clinks and clanks
near-infinite tweakability with our mighty sound shaping tools
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The library includes many of presets with a wide dynamic range. You can put them to use in your rhythm section right away, or explore what happens when you engage with the in-built inspiring sound-sculpting engine.
PATCHES
- glass collection (new)
- brown glass
- chinese tea cups
- glass crystal
- glass ensemble
- glass dekor
- glass jar
- glass jug
- glass large 1
- glass large 2
- glass large 3
- glass melk
- glass shiny
- glass small
- glass thick
- glass vase
- glass bow
- glass chimes
- deep glass
- klirr elves
- future buildings
- glass dome 1
- glass dome 2
- klirr river
- softest river
- storm in glass
FAQ :
Frequently Asked Questions
Glass-Percussion is a unique Kontakt sample library featuring detailed recordings of glass objects played as percussive instruments. It includes tuned and untuned glass elements—ranging from delicate struck wine glasses and crystal bowls to heavier, resonant glass panels—captured with depth and nuance for cinematic and experimental music.
Use similar reverb spaces or convolution effects to blend Glass-Percussion with traditional percussion or mallet instruments
Apply light EQ cuts around 2–5 kHz if brightness conflicts with strings or vocals
For cinematic layering, try blending with low piano, pads, or reversed FX
- Generally they are fairly dry! But mapped to that you can use Kontakt to find a good tonality that fits the song. There are also mic position sliders.
Yes! We’ve written a blog-post about it HERE
Also, the library includes an bonus set of custom made IRs!
Yes. Most instruments include multiple velocity layers to capture dynamic expressiveness, as well as round robin alternations to avoid machine-gun effects during repeated strikes. Some patches also feature randomized sample-start behavior for natural humanization.
Yes, sounds are mapped chromatically across the keyboard. Some patches also include microtonal offsets or stretch-tuned textures, useful for contemporary scoring and textural sound beds.
Yes. The interface offers control over:
Reverb and delay send levels
Attack/release envelope shaping
Lowpass and highpass filtering
Stereo width and pan controls
Some patches also support modwheel-based dynamic control, useful for shaping swells or fades in real-time.
While not a loop-based instrument, the tight transient response and organic resonance of the samples make Glass-Percussion ideal for rhythmic pattern-building inside your DAW. Many patches also respond well to arpeggiators and step-sequencers.
KLIRR patches are useful for coloring Film/TV/Game scoring — for moody backgrounds, suspenseful tension, and emotional underscores
Ambient & drone music — for long-form sonic exploration
Experimental/avant-garde — for grainy, evolving guitar ambiences
Sound design — for cinematic transitions, and pads
It takes up 2GB of diskspace
FEATURES
- Current version : 2.3
- build 0.197
- sculpt 0011
in-built custom IRs
bonus IR pack, made for “light” percussion instruments and sounds,
Glass responds really nicely to the delicate strokes and hits. Short taps or strikes blend seamlessly on top of other percussions, helping create a richer tapestry of beats.
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