Olympus Symphonic Choir

About

Soundiron is proud to present the absolute pinnacle of professional choir sampling: The Olympus Symphonic Choir collection. This is a combination of our massive Mars Men's and Venus Women's Choirs, bundled together as a complete set. Olympus Collection represents the most complete and detailed choir sample library available anywhere, with sonic power and playability that cannot be matched. Olympus offers a superior range of detailed articulations, robust sonic presence and natural true legato, all at an incredible price. Working with Maestro Robert Geary, we recorded over 20 days at Montclair Presbyterian, high in the forested hills overlooking the San Francisco Bay, with a 63-voice hand-picked group of SF Symphony Chorus, SF Opera, SF Choral Society and Volti singers. Both Mars and Venus include a pair of wide stereo mic positions (stage/close and hall/far). These two master positions were carefully balanced and mixed using an array of 12 large diaphragm microphones set throughout the hall. This simplified routing is designed to give you the flexibility to incorporate the full-bodied sound easily and efficiently into your stereo or surround mix. Owners of Olympus Choir Micro, Olympus Choir Elements, Mars Men's Choir and Venus Women's Choir are all eligible for a great discount when they upgrade to the full Olympus Symphonic Choir collection for the full version of Kontakt!

Contents

Olympus features a full 33-voice female chorus and 30-voice men's chorus, along with 8 soloists, singing in Latin and Slavonic, including a full range of standard vowel and consonant sounds. You'll also find true legato intervals for the ah, eh, oh, oo and mm vowel sounds, along with a large collection of both standard and unique choral effects (shouts, sweeps, clusters, etc.). There are 2 masterfully blended composite microphone distances to choose from and mix (close/stage and far/hall), carefully crafted from an array of 12 discreet large diaphragm Neumann Microphones. Olympus also features a unique bonus collection of Ambiences, Drones, Textures and FX content.

• 2 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 63 professional singers from Volti, the SF Symphony Chorus and the SF Choral Society
• 2 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
• Dozens of Marcatos w/ deep round-robin and pp/fff dynamic layering
• Dozens of Staccatos w/ 4x round-robin
• Slavonic 100bmp Slow Polysustains w/ tempo-synching, legato & 2x rr releases
• Slavonic 140bpm Fast Polysustains w/ tempo-synching, legato & 2x rr releases
• Latin 100bmp Slow Polysustains w/ tempo-synching, legato & 2x rr releases
• Latin 140bpm Fast Polysustains w/ tempo-synching, legato & 2x rr releases
• Whispered Polysustains w/ tempo-synching, plus Staccatos and Marcatos
• Droning Polysustains w/ tempo-synching, plus Staccatos and Marcatos (dissonant, harmonic and atonal spoken)
• 4 Multi-dynamic True Legato Vowels: Ah, Eh, Oh, Oo
• Soft "Mm" True Legato Vowel
• Sustaining Half and Whole-tone trills w/ tempo-synching for the women's section
• A huge collection of choral shouts, risers, falls, sweeps, swells, clusters and other essential symphonic and experimental choral effects of all kinds.
• Over 20 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 elements like "Amazing Grace", tonal metal hall percussion, convolution impulses and more.
• 2 Soprano Soloists and 3 Alto Soloists, singing in both Slavonic & Latin for the women.
• 1 Bass Soloists and 2 Tenor Soloists, singing in both Slavonic & Latin for the men.
• Each language includes of a full collection of Soloist articulations
• The Soloists feature a variety of staccatos, polysustains, trills, whisper effects and a deep collection of rich melodic phrases.
• Tempo-synching and time-stretching presets optimized for Kontakt 5
• A deep bonus collection of custom ambient soundscapes, drones, pads and atmospheres hand-crafted using the original choral source
• Integrated DSP effects and custom convolution impulses included
• Fully automatable custom user interface

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