The Mars Symphonic Men’s Choir is a comprehensive male choral ensemble library designed for professional film and television scoring, symphonic arrangement and music production. It is the most complete and detailed men’s choir sample library available anywhere, with a sound and playability that cannot be matched. Mars was designed as the first offering in the widely acclaimed Olympus choral series, providing you the total flexibility, deep functionality and total sonic power that every professional composer needs.
Mars covers a wide range of Latin, Slavonic and Pure Vowel content, with a full set of chromatic articulations including sustains, marcatos, staccatos, true legato, clusters, falls, swells, effects and a trio of stellar male soloists. They recorded over 10 days at Montclair Presbyterian, high in the Oakland Hills, with a 30-voice hand-picked group of SF Symphony Chorus, SF Opera, SF Choral Society and Volti singers. It includes a pair of simplified wide stereo mic positions (stage and hall), giving you the flexibility to incorporate the full-bodied sound of Mars easily and efficiently into your mix.
CONTENTS
Mars features a full 30-voice male chorus as well as 3 soloists singing in both Latin and Slavonic. A wide variety of content is included for both languages, as well as a large collection of choral effects (shouts, sweeps, clusters, etc.). It includes two masterfully mixed composite microphone distance positions (stage and hall), carefully blended from an array of 10 discreet large diaphragm Neumann Microphones, with wide pairs ranging in distance from 1 meter to 25 meters. The two-composite position configuration allows the best balance between placement, flexibility and performance, while providing a truly massive, robust and full-bodied sound.
In addition to the true legato chorus sustains, ALL sustaining articulations in the library include 3-part polyphonic pseudo-legato (all vowel sustains, fast & slow polysustains, soloist vowel sustains, soloist slow & melodic poly-sustains) Mars also features a unique bonus collection of Ambiences, Drones, Textures and FX content.
Full Chorus
2 Languages: Latin and Slavonic
Massive New Marcato Builder – Explore the brand new word-building functionality, with your choice of 7 major vowel sustain types, each with multiple variants and a combined total of 42 independently selectable attack syllables and 42 release sounds, each with independent round-robin and automation-ready controls.
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/ round-robin
26 Staccatos w/ round-robin
Kontakt 5 Tempo-Synching for poly-sustain presets
Kontakt 5 Time-stretching for Choral Effects
Kontakt 5 Legato Speed Control (from tight legato to slow portamento)
System Requirements for Mars Symphonic Men’s Choir
The full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt version 5.1 (or later) is required to use the Kontakt 5 .nki instrument presets included in this library. The full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt version 4.2.4 (or later) is required to use the Kontakt 4 .nki instrument presets included in this library. The free Kontakt “Player” and “Add Library” import process do not support this standard open-format Kontakt library. Windows XP or higher. Mac OSX 10.6 or higher. Dual Core CPU, 4 GB System Ram, SATA or SSD hard drive recommended for this library.
Note: This software is delivered as a digital download. A broadband internet connection is required.
Product Specs
17.9 GB Installed
16,091 Samples
220 Kontakt 4.2 nki core instrument presets and 73 nkm multis (for backward and forward compatibility)
74 Kontakt 5.1 nki advanced instrument presets and 36 nkm multis (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
Mars 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.
