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Exquisite recording quality
Venus shines with recordings from a select 33-voice ensemble, capturing the ethereal beauty of the female voice. Utilizing a church known for its acoustic richness, and employing an array of large-diaphragm Neumann microphones, every subtle nuance is preserved. This meticulous approach ensures that Venus not only offers a robust sonic presence but also a detailed and dynamic expression palette, making it a cornerstone for any scoring or arrangement project.
Diverse articulation and dynamic expression
With an extensive collection of articulations, including classic Latin and Slavonic chants and a vast array of vocal effects, Venus provides composers with the tools to convey a wide spectrum of emotions and textures. The library's true legato ensures smooth, natural transitions between notes, while the inclusion of 5 soloist voices adds depth and versatility to your compositions. Whether creating serene ambient textures or powerful, emotive passages, Venus adapts to your creative vision.
Designed for ease of use
Venus is engineered for seamless integration into any project, with two microphone positions that blend effortlessly into both intimate and expansive mixes. This, combined with the library’s extensive articulation range and true legato, makes Venus an indispensable asset for composers. From the delicate whispers to the full-bodied power of a female choir, Venus brings your musical ideas to life with elegance and ease.
Unlimited creative potential
Beyond traditional choral sounds, Venus includes a rich collection of ambient soundscapes, pads, drones, and other effects, all derived from its choral recordings. This expansive range of sounds, together with custom convolution reverb impulses, opens up new horizons for sonic exploration, allowing you to craft unique and captivating musical experiences. Venus stands as a testament to the beauty and power of the female voice, offering endless inspiration to composers and arrangers alike.
Made for Kontakt
Optimized for the full version of Kontakt 4.2 or later, this library extends beyond traditional sampling. It is crafted to harness the power of Kontakt's advanced sampling capabilities, offering users an intuitive and flexible toolset for manipulating unique sounds. While the library operates in a "demo mode" on the free Kontakt Player, its open-format design allows for broad compatibility with WAV-compatible software, ensuring that the sounds of the SoundIron Venus Olympus Symphonic Choir can inspire music creation across a wide array of platforms. This library represents not just a collection of sounds, but a gateway to uncharted auditory experiences, encouraging musicians to explore, experiment, and express in new and exciting ways.
Reviews
"I use SoundIron Mars and Venus as my go-to choirs. The variations of each vowel sound help them fit into any context and genre in a way other libraries cannot. They can be cinematic, epic, intimate or whatever I need. Definitely a joy to write with." - Leo Birenberg (Composer: Kung Fu Panda, The Paws of Destiny, Cobra Kai)
Features
Full Chorus
- Two Room positions (close and far), created from a blend of 12 large diaphragm Neumann microphones
- Specifically designed for easy surround sound mixing, mix customization and resource efficiency
- A chorus of 33 professional singers from Volti, the SF Symphony Chorus and the SF Choral Society
- Two Languages: Latin and Slavonic
- Massive Marcato Builder System - Explore our fully customizable basic word-builder system with hundreds of possible sustaining word combinations. Combine a variety of attack, sustain and release consonant and vowel components and freely cross-fade between them
- Combined Marcato/Staccato Phrase Builder with preset saving and the ability to store and cycle or keyswitch between up to 16 different user-created sequences
- 36 Marcatos w/ deep round-robin and pp/fff dynamic layering
- 48 Staccatos w/ 4x round-robin, including pp/fff dynamic layering on 8 core vowels
- 18 Slavonic 100bmp Slow Polysustains w/ tempo-synching, legato & 2x rr releases
- 12 Slavonic 140bpm Fast Polysustains w/ tempo-synching, legato & 2x rr releases
- 10 Latin 100bmp Slow Polysustains w/ tempo-synching, legato & 2x rr releases
- 11 Latin 140bpm Fast Polysustains w/ tempo-synching, legato & 2x rr releases
- 21 Whispered Polysustains w/ tempo-synching, plus Staccatos and Marcatos
- 28 Droning Polysustains w/ tempo-synching, plus Staccatos and Marcatos (dissonant, harmonic and atonal spoken)
- Four Dynamic Layered PP/FF True Legato Vowels: Ah, Eh, Oh, Oo
- Plus a bonus soft ppp "Mmm" with True Legato
- Sustaining Half and Whole-tone trills w/ tempo-synching
- A huge collection of choral shouts, risers, falls, sweeps, swells, clusters and other essential symphonic and experimental choral effects of all kinds
- 21 unique sustaining vowels (ah, ay, eh, ee, ih, mm, oh, oo and more) with up to 4 independent round-robin variations on each attack, sustain and release element
- Bonus "Amazing Grace" building blocks in freely arrangeable multi-part harmony (in both solo and ensemble)
- 406 individual nki presets
- 120 additional combo close/far mic nkm presets, ready for custom mixing and surround routing
Soloists
- Two Soprano Soloists and three Alto Soloists, singing in both Slavonic & Latin.
- Each language includes of a full collection of one Alto and one Soprano articulations
- The Soloists feature a variety of staccatos, polysustains, trills, whisper effects and a deep collection of rich melodic phrases
Specifications
- Operating system:
- Mac: OSX 10.6 or later
- Windows: Windows XP or later
- Format: VST, AU, AAX
- Requires: Kontakt 4.2 or later
- RAM: 2GB
- Hard disk memory: 26.7GB
- Product code: 1337-1048