Olympus Micro Choir
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Olympus Micro is the official Demo Pack for our mighty Olympus Symphonic Choral Collection and a lightweight user-friendly simple choral instrument for musicians who just need the basics, with a classic set of great-sounding Ah and Oo vowel sustains, a pair of tempo-synchable Latin and Russian chants and single staccatos for men and women divisi sections with adjustable ranges and performance controls. It also features a set of 5 unique atmospheric instrument presets, an integrated selection of hall and fx reverb impulses, parametric EQ and a newly upgraded simulated polyphonic legato system. It’s a powerful introduction to the controls and concepts behind our full-sized professional choral libraries and at the same time, it represents a supreme value as a self-contained choral instrument on its own.
Our Olympus Symphonic Choir Collection is a massive professional choral scoring library for the Native Instruments Kontakt platform. It’s comprised of the Mars Men’s and Venus Women’s divisi choirs. Recorded in a large, natural hall with 63 hand-picked singers from SF Choral Society, Volti and SF Symphony Chorus, conducted by maestro Robert Geary, it’s a total scoring solution ideal for any professional composer.
We know how daunting such a huge collection can be and the significant investment it represents, so we designed this fully functional and playable demo kit to offer just a taste of the enormous possibilities that Olympus offers. This compact 208MB choir instrument contains 140 samples and yet it’s just a tiny slice of the wealth of premium sample and programming content you’ll find in the full Olympus Collection. It can also simply serve as an great-sounding basic choir pad set for those who just need the purest of basics, but still want the highest quality available, along with natural acoustics and an expanded range of control features. Whether you’re curious about our Olympus Symphonic Choir, or you’re new to virtual choirs, Olympus Micro is the perfect low cost and easy way to begin your journey.
Note: All customers who order the latest version of Olympus Micro can receive a $20 discount on an upgrade to the full version of Olympus Symphonic Choral Collection! And existing owners of the full Olympus Symphonic Collection can request a free copy of Olympus Micro. Just contact us directly if you’d like to upgrade or have any other questions.
Functionality
Despite it’s humble size and scope, this little starter pack is surprisingly powerful. You still have real-time control over dynamic intensity, tempo, playback start position, room decay time and volume, legato transitions, and more. With our full automation support, you can create entirely new phonetic combinations and syllable sequences from the raw material provided here. Full automation support means you can get as creative and complex with your arrangements as you like. The legato system is designed to be fluid for the sustains and automatically phrase-synchronous for the polysustains, so you can play melodies as the choir progresses naturally through rhythmic Latin/Russian phrasing.
NKI Program Presets
- This library is designed for the full retail version of Kontakt 4.2.4 or later.
- Kontakt 5.0.2 and later required for all tempo-synching presets.
- The free Kontakt Player doesn’t support this open-format Kontakt library.
- The special Libraries tab doesn’t support this open-format Kontakt library.
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- Full Men’s and Women’s divisi sections, with freely adjustable note ranges
- 100BPM Latin “Dominum” chromatic Poly-sustain chants w/ release syllable
- 140BPM Russian “Raduisya” chromatic Poly-sustain chants w/ release syllable
- “Oo” pp vowel sustains w/ releases
- “Ah” ff vowel sustains w/ releases
- “Oo” and “Ah” staccatos
- Use the Offset, Attack & Release controls to shape your own syllables, sustains and phrases
- Automatic polysustain host tempo-synching for Kontakt 5 presets.
- Swell control allows real-time dynamic performance shaping.
- Independent Release timing and Release Volume controls, to control room decay
- Simulated divisi & dual-layer polyphonic legato with customizable controls
- Independent Pan controls for each divisi section
- Bonus Special FX presets for creating atmospheric pads and soundscapes.
- Per-section and per-layer polyphonic legato with adjustable speed, interval-range and gliss intensity
- 10 Special FX impulses integrated into the interface to create your own effects
- 10 Natural Environmental Reverb Impulses, including Halls, Cathedrals, Churches, Studios, Bundkers, Garages and more.
- 3-band parametric EQ with sweepable mid
- Master Full Ensemble Preset with independent controls for men’s and women’s sections
- Divisi Men’s and Divisi Women’s Section presets, with dual layer blending, crossfading and phrase morphing
- 5 Bonus Atmospheric FX presets
- Upgrade path to the Olympus Symphonic Choral Collection
140 samples
207 MB Installed
24 nki Kontakt instrument presets (12K4 & 12K5)
24 bit / 48kHz stereo PCM wav format
Open format to allow user customization
Format(s): Kontakt 4 & 5 .nki and pcm .wav
PDF User Manual:
Ordering
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Notes
Important Note: The full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt version 4.2.4 or 5.0.3 is required to use all .nki instrument program presets included in this library. Kontakt 5 required for tempo-synching features. The free Kontakt “Player” and special “Libraries” tab do not support this standard open-format library.
System Requirements: Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8. Intelmac and Mac OS 10.5 or higher.
Minimum system Requirements: Dual Core CPU, 1 GB System Ram, 7200 RPM 8MB Buffer SATA hard drive required to use most of the presets in this library.
found this from soundsandgear.com Great lil choir. thanks much.
Micro Choir is absolutely great, thanks a lot. It would be awesome if Soundiron could consider a Light version of Mars or Venus at an inbetween price tag for those who only occasionally need background choirs.
I love it ! Stunning quality and surprisingly versatile. Maybe those gods of Olympus will bless us with a few add-ons at the same price ! A “Modular Mass” !