Olympus Symphonic Choir

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.

Full Chorus

• 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.
• Nearly 42,000 samples
• Nearly 45 GB of content
• 699 individual nki presets
• 229 combo close/far mic nkm multi-instrument banks, for custom mixing and easy surround routing

Soloists

• 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.

More...

• 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
• High speed Amazon download w/ alternate standard web server option