Haunting lows and angelic highs
About
The Mercury Symphonic Boy Choir is the single most comprehensive, playable and deeply-sampled children’s choir library available anywhere. Mercury faithfully captures the sound of a traditional English boy’s choir, with haunting lows and angelic highs. We recorded the award-winning Pacific Boychoir in a beautifully clear hall with conductor Robert Geary and choir director Kevin Fox, capturing a wide range of essential choral articulations.
Mercury features 42 staccato & 42 sustaining marcato syllables with round-robin, 18 tempo-syncing Latin poly-syllabic sustains with phrase-synchronus polyphonic legato, molto fortissimo poly-staccatos, 6 dynamic true legato vowels (ah, oh, oo, eh, ee, mm, whistling) with intercal transition speed control. The extended choral effects section includes drone and whisper articulations, trills, sweeps, swells, risers, falls and many other choral effects. You’ll also find two exquisite soloists (younger soprano and older alto) with poly-syllabic phrases, staccatos and true legato sustains. The library also features 34 unique sound-designed pads and soundscapes crafted from the choral source, perfect for underscoring, layering and creating organic synth patches for edm and hybrid tracks
Contents
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.
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Product Specs
requirements:
mac:
ram: 4
disk: 16
version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQobR0wfqtM
additional_requirements: Full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.1+ or Kontakt 4.2.4+
internet required: no
plugins:
VST-2
VST-3
AU
AAX
STAND-ALONE
windows:
ram: 4
disk: 16
version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQobR0wfqtM
additional_requirements: Full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.1+ or Kontakt 4.2.4+
internet required: no
plugins:
VST-2
VST-3
AAX
STAND-ALONE
trial: no
notes: This product is built for the full version of Kontakt
feature: 15.5 GB Installed
14,605 Samples
77 Kontakt 4.2 nki instrument presets and Kontakt 5.1 nki advanced instrument presets (to allow tempo-synching and time-stretching features)
24 bit / 48kHz uncompressed PCM wav audio
Unlocked Kontakt presets and wav samples to allow user customization
Mercury also features a unique bonus collection of Ambiences, Drones, Textures and FX content, as well as a wide collection of new and classic custom convolution impulses integrated into every preset.
platforms: mac
windows
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