We're proud to welcome you to our Olympus Elements Choir.This new entry in our Olympus Choral line puts all the key functionality and content of our larger Olympus Symphonic Collection in a straight-forward and easy-to-use package. We've taken the fundamental power and richness of a full symphonic choir and packed it into an affordable and potent virtual instrument. Elements is meant for professionals and hobbyists alike, users who have a projects that doesn’t call for lyrical content or the overhead of multiple microphone positions. It’s designed to provide a powerful 63-person choir in a robust, configurable yet easy-to-use instrument.
Olympus Elements contains the close, intimate microphone position for all of the core vowel articulations:Ah, Ee, Eh, Ei, Ih, Mm, Oh and Oo, in both sustaining and staccato styles.The sustaining articulations loop indefinitely and have a full dynamic range from a soft, delicate pp to a loud and powerful ff. Round robin is included on all sustain attacks, releases and staccatos to make Elements sound as life-like as possible.Also included isTrue Legato for both theAh and Oo vowels (in both pp and ff dynamic layers) in which we painstakingly sampled the up and down interval transitions (up to an octave) between notes.A wide selection of vowel-based choral effects is also included for both genders ranging from drones and whispers to swoops, swells and yells. And of course we have included a dozen ambient presets in which we manipulated the library content in order to provide interesting soundscapes and drones.
A lot of the power in Olympus Elements comes from our incredible custom and fully-automatable user interface. In order to create the best product possible, we crafted a large variety of preset instruments molded to fit the different needs and styles of composers and musicians. Most presets have two independent sound layers -- one for the men and one for the women -- each with its own sound-shaping, range and keyswitch controls.This layer-independence extends to legato (both True and simulated) which allows for the men and women (or a single gender on two different vowels) to play separate legato melodies or chords allowing for fully independent divisi sections.
Our Vowel Master contains all of the sustaining and staccato content for all the vowels in a dual-layer instrument with each layer switchable between sustains and staccato on-the-fly. For users who only need one or the other we provide sustain-only (with choral pad mode) and staccato-only options.The Marcato presets we provide have shorter, intense non-looping sustains.The newest iteration of our Phrasemaster is also included, providing users with 16 fully configurable phrases, each consisting of up to 16 steps. Phrases can be saved to the hard disk for later use and each step in every phrase can be a staccato or looping sustain, and include just male, just female, or both sections.
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Every instrument preset in Olympus includes a built-in selection of 21 classic room/space reverbs and 30 unique special FX reverbs to allow you to take the sound in entirely new directions.There’s also a 3-band EQ, simulated polyphonic intelligent legato for all sustaining loops and total performance shaping for two independent choral sections at once, with men and women together or in fully independent divisi sections. New to Olympus Elements is our simulated vibrato effect which is present in most presets and adds a bit of specially crafted and tuned virtual vibrato.
Olympus Elements has a place in the arsenal of everyone from the beginning hobbyist to the seasoned professional. Even if you already own the full version of our Olympus Collection you will find great use in Elements as it provides the most straight-forward and powerful choral solution at an unprecedented value.
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We captured our Olympus Symphonic Choir by assembling 63 hand-picked singers from the SF Choral Society,Volti and the SF Symphony Chorus, under the direction of maestro Robert Geary. We recorded in a large, acoustically optimal A- Frame chapel hidden in the wooded canyons of historic Montclair, in the San Francisco Bay Area.We used the same location for our Mercury Symphonic Boychoir,Apocalypse Percussion Ensemble, Struck Grand, Montclarion Steinway 1926 Hall Grand Piano, Cymbology 1 and other classic Soundiron instruments.We used Sound Devices multi-track recorders and 12 large-diaphragm Neumann microphones in a custom-designed wide multi-position array to capture uncompromising fidelity and tone.We meticulously recorded over 90 solid hours of male (“Mars”) and female (“Venus”) divisi ensembles and solo SATB articulations, combining traditional deep sampling methods with our own specialized techniques and intuition to deliver the most capable and comprehensive symphonic choral library available anywhere in the world. Olympus Elements focuses on the main close microphone position for the full chorus, with men and women in separate divisi sections.
The Olympus Symphonic Choral Collection includes...
- Full men's and women's divisi choir sections (31+ voices each) w/ 8 soloists (SATB)
- Unmatchedacousticquality,flexibility,depthandrealism
- Surround-Sound Compatible Stage & Hall Positions
- Over 45 GB & 42,000 samples
- Deep-Sampled Polyphonic True Legato in multiple vowels & dynamics
- Cutting edge polyphonic legato system w/ full speed and style shaping
- Staccato/Marcato Phrase Master & Word Master systems
- A complete variety of sustaining vowels with deep round-robin and dynamic control.
- 50+ Tempo-Synching Latin & Russian Poly-sustains per divisi section
- Dozens of sustaining marcato words per section, with deep round-robin variation and dynamic layering • Dozens of staccato syllables per section, with 4x round robins per syllable
- Special pp/ff vowel dual-dynamic staccatos with real-time pp/fff dynamic control Hundredsofchoraleffects,atmospheres,shouts,whispers,sweeps,clusters,risersandfalls.
- Unique bonus percussion (tuned and untuned) and real-world custom convolution impulses
- Integrated DSP effects routing and automation
- For Native Instruments Kontakt 5.0.3 and later (VST/AU/RTAS/AAX)
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