Mars Symphonic Men's Choir

About

The Mars Symphonic Men's Choir is a comprehensive male choral ensemble library designed for professional film and television scoring, symphonic arrangement and music production. It is the most complete and detailed men's choir sample library available anywhere, with a sound and playability that cannot be matched. Mars was designed as the first offering in our now widely acclaimed Olympus choral series, providing you the total flexibility, deep functionality and total sonic power that every professional composer needs. Mars covers a wide range of Latin, Slavonic and Pure Vowel content, with a full set of chromatic articulations including sustains, marcatos, staccatos, true legato, clusters, falls, swells, effects and a trio of stellar male soloists. We recorded over 10 days at Montclair Presbyterian, high in the Oakland Hills, with a 30-voice hand-picked group of SF Symphony Chorus, SF Opera, SF Choral Society and Volti singers. It includes a pair of simplified wide stereo mic positions (stage and hall), giving you the flexibility to incorporate the full-bodied sound of Mars easily and efficiently into your mix.

Contents

Mars features a full 30-voice male chorus as well as 3 soloists singing in both Latin and Slavonic. A wide variety of content is included for both languages, as well as a large collection of choral effects (shouts, sweeps, clusters, etc.). It includes two masterfully mixed composite microphone distance positions (stage and hall), carefully blended from an array of 10 discreet large diaphragm Neumann Microphones, with wide pairs ranging in distance from 1 meter to 25 meters. The two-composite position configuration allows the best balance between placement, flexibility and performance, while providing a truly massive, robust and full-bodied sound. In addition to the true legato chorus sustains, ALL sustaining articulations in the library include 3-part polyphonic pseudo-legato (all vowel sustains, fast & slow polysustains, soloist vowel sustains, soloist slow & melodic poly-sustains) Mars also features a unique bonus collection of Ambiences, Drones, Textures and FX content.

• 2 Languages: Latin and Slavonic
• Massive New Marcato Builder - Explore our brand new word-building functionality, with your choice of 7 major vowel sustain types, each with multiple variants and a combined total of 42 independently selectable attack syllables and 42 release sounds, each with independent round-robin and automation-ready controls.
• 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
• 42 Marcatos w/ round-robin
• 26 Staccatos w/ round-robin
• Kontakt 5 Tempo-Synching for poly-sustain presets
• Kontakt 5 Time-stretching for Choral Effects
• Kontakt 5 Legato Speed Control (from tight legato to slow portamento)
• 12 Slavonic 100bmp Slow Polysustains (sustaining w/release)
• 11 Slavonic 140bpm Fast Polysustains (sustaining w/release)
• 11 Latin 100bmp Slow Polysustains (sustaining w/release)
• 14 Melodic "Gregorian" Extended slow Poly-sustains, with Atonal Droning Versions of each: (70 bpm / 3/4 timing)
• 14 Latin whisper Slow Polysustains (sustaining w/release)
• 7 Latin 140bpm Fast Polysustains (sustaining w/release)
• Dozens of unique sustaining vowels w/ round-robin and independent attack & release (PP - FFF)
• 5 True Legato Vowels: Ah, Oo (p), Oo (f), Oh, Mm
• A huge collection of choral shouts, effects, drones and war chants / yells.
• 1 Master Bass Soloist and 2 Exquistite Tenor Soloists, singing in both Slavonic & Latin.
• Each language incudes of a full collection of 1 Bass and 1 Tenor articulations, each with:
• 10 Standard Slow Polysustains
• A wide variety of Solo Staccatos (23 syllables for the Bass and a total of 24 between the two Tenors)
• A wide selection of True-melodic Polysustains
• Kontakt 5 Time-stretching for Choral Effects and Emotional Solo Phrases

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