Mercury Symphonic Boys' Choir

Mercury features a full boy's choral ensemble (ages 8-13) and 2 soloists, singing traditional Catholic Latin, including a full range of standard vowel and consonant sounds. Mercury has been mixed into 2 masterfully blended composite microphone distances (stage and hall), carefully blended from an array of 12 discreet large diaphragm Neumann Microphones, with wide pairs ranging in distance from 1 meter to 20 meters. Surround mixing is made simple, with the best balance between placement, flexibility and performance, without compromising the truly awesome sound these boys deliver. In addition to the true legato chorus sustains, all sustaining articulations in the library include 3-part polyphonic pseudo-legato (all vowel sustains, fast and slow polysustains, soloist vowel sustains, soloist slow and melodic poly-sustains).

Several presets include our custom Phrasemaster adaptive phrase-building system, which allows you to automatically progress through a sequence of staccato or marcato syllables, advancing to the next one each time you play a new note, with up to 16 sequencable presets that can be arranged, modified and triggered in realtime using automation and keyswitching. We're also proud to introduce our new Wordmaster system, a powerful marcato/staccato sequencing tool that let's you choose from 42 different words for two independent articulation layers and switch them from staccato to sustaining marcato at the push of a button or press of a keyswitch. It provides the convenience of instant word-building with the quality, realism and reliability of hand-tailored 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 25 singers from the award-winning Pacific Boychoir.
• New Word Master System - an easy-to-use graphical interface that lets you choose from dozens of sustaining marcato words and staccato syllables on the fly, all with multi-layer selection and blending, legato, key-switching and more.
• 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
• 42 Marcatos w/ deep round-robin and pp/fff dynamic layering
• 42 Staccatos w/ 4x round-robin, including pp/fff dynamic layering on 6 core vowels
• 18 Traditional Latin Polysustains w/ tempo-synching, legato & 2x rr releases
• Whispered Polysustains
• Atonal Droning and Spoken Polysustains
• Dynamic Layered PP/FF True Legato Vowels (Ah, Oh, Oo, Eh, Ee and Mm)
• Classic Ensemble Whistle legato
• Unique FFF Poly-staccatos
• 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

Soloists

• 2 soloists, one young (soprano) and one older (alto).
• The Soloists feature a variety of staccatos, poly-syllabic phrases, and a fluid true legato vowel each.