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libraries, it still will hurt your wallet. Most of us enthusiastic or even semipro musicians are married or at least in some sort of relationship. Imagine that you should tell to your wife or girlfriend that you need 1000 dollars to buy one specialised sound library representing just a part (maybe a very important part, but still just a part) of the sounds you'll need for composing your music. Imagine that we could collect all video clips that capture this pleasant moment, the dialogue between us and our beloved ladies chatting about our musical needs. I presume that we can easily compile a really intense slasher movie out of these video clips. Let's call it “The Deadly Choir I.” The Deadly Choir II – the new beginning Requiem light player Edition is the first among the new generation of Choir libraries that offers almost everything that other, more expensive libraries of that generation have but it will not kill your budget. It costs 375 us dollars and it works with free Kontakt Player. Dear Soundiron, thank you 625 times for each dollar saved. Working with the Requiem Light library is a pure joy. Of course, you will need to tweak a thing or two to get the most realistic results and maybe here and there you would need to record more takes of various syllables. But as soon as you enter in a “Latin chants” zone, the thing reaches the whole new level even
without additional tweaking. Yes, it is true that those Latin fellows mostly talk nonsense. But if you are good with the Latin language, then with just a few “trials and errors”, you can easily get pretty decent Latin sentences. As the human voice is the most expressive instrument that we know, even without always understanding every word we can usually get the general message. I listened to British rock years before I've learned English, and to tell you the truth I was a bit disappointed by some artists when I finally figured out what they were talking about. The phrases that you can play with in those Latin chants are so impressive and so dramatic that no other instrument can bring this emotion. If you saw any SF or war movie lately than you've probably heard them many times. When the fight began, they are there, standing behind the camera, sprinkled with a blood, singing something in a Latin language. Entrails So, what do we get exactly? Technically, it is a 6G library with 70 Kontakt patches. But this library is not about the quantity and about the size. The point is that we have a well recorded and carefully programmed big Choir supplemented with all kinds of goodies: men, women, in groups or solo. The library covers everything you will possibly ever need for spicing up your dramatic score. The whole choir can be singing legato for three
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separate vowel sounds. Add to that a capability for marcato and staccato syllables along with a wide variety of polysyllabic Latin chants for choir and maybe several soloists. For a good measure there is also a nice selection of various choir effects. In a less then few minutes I became familiar with the library, tweaking and adjusting like mad the various knobs. Trying all combinations, I soon got the sound I was aiming for. With the Low and Hi knobs, you can change the general sample (or maybe we should say the syllables for lower and higher parts of the keyboard). A tweak or two on a few additional buttons and you will have a nice realistic choir. Doubling the track with a choir line using different syllables for every line you will get much more realistic results you’d think was possible with any older generation of Choir library. Most of the essential controls are presented in a main window, while rest of the controls are easily reachable with a click or two. Almost all libraries have implementations of a dozen of various controllers that I usually don't touch, but these can really change the feel and are perfect for fine-tuning the overall sound of a choir by adopting it to the specific arrangement. Another live saver for making a more realistic choir line is a key-switching functionality, used mostly for changing the syllables, doubling the Hi and Low controller buttons. This is a must-have tool for achieving a realistic solo part with male or female voice. Along with those
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