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By Dave StewartSanctify your soundtracks with Tonehammer's new choral library.The Gothic hymn-book graphics of Requiem's user interface conceal a secret.Over the last year or so, West Coast company Tonehammer have been steadily making their mark on the sample library market with an idiosyncratic and creative combination of exotic percussion, thunderous drums, moody pianos, evocative female solo vocal collections and er, sampled bees. Their latest release is by far their most ambitious, featuring the combined talents of 37 singers and a world‑famous choir conductor. Recorded over a period of two weeks in the hallowed acoustic of one of San Francisco's oldest cathedrals, the choir was conducted by Robert Geary, artistic director of the acclaimed Volti choir (who specialise in contemporary music by US composers) and the 200‑voice San Francisco Choral Society. SFCS's Alan Kleinschmidt was also on hand to direct proceedings.Portentously titled Requiem, the library includes a full choir of sopranos, altos, tenors and basses, separate male and female groups, and five soloists (two sopranos, tenor, baritone and bass), all recorded 24‑bit from multiple microphone positions. It ships in two versions: Requiem Pro (which requires the full version of Kontakt 4) is the master library featuring all the mic positions. Optimised for use on laptops and smaller systems, Requiem Light has a reduced sample and articulation menu, includes free Kontakt Player software and blends the different mic position samples into a single stereo mix. Upgrades in both directions are available — the Light brigade can turn Pro by shelling out more dosh, and Pro users can purchase the Light stereo samples as an add‑on.Tonehammer have a download‑only policy.

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Though I applaud this conservation‑minded approach, there are potential pitfalls: you'll need a fast broadband connection to download Requiem Pro's 23GB of samples, and once they're copied onto your drive you obviously can't send them back. Caveat emptor applies here, so to avoid any misconceptions over what you're buying, be sure to listen to the demos of Requiem at Tonehammer's site beforehand.Anyone minded to make pirate copies of the library might want to think again, as the makers have individually watermarked each sample and can thus trace unauthorised copies back to the original owner. (Cue police car siren.) However, Tonehammer are happy for you to freely duplicate the library on your own system without a dongle — they just don't want you to give away the fruits of their labour to others. It's hard to argue with that.Click on the hymn book and an elaborate performance control panel (embossed on alchemist's parchment, naturally) magically opens. What sorcery is this?The choir was recorded from three main mic positions, stage, mid and far, with microphones placed respectively five, 15 and 45 feet from the singers.

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The soloists were also close‑miked, giving the option of a drier, mono‑ish sound. Certain performances segregate the male and female singers, but rather than sampling sopranos, altos, tenors and basses separately, the choir is mainly presented as a full unit, with the different voices mapped and blended according to range. This has been done so skillfully and naturally that I never noticed the transitions, even when moving between the high male register and the female altos' range.As well as providing the basic 'aah', 'ooh' and 'eeh' sustained vowel sounds traditionally found in choir libraries, Requiem adds around 10 subtle variations extracted from longer performances sung by separate male and female groups, and also throws in 'eh', 'ih', and 'um' options (the latter sung by the men only).

The sustained multi‑vowel presets are recorded at tone intervals, looped, one‑dynamic and perfectly in tune; the men's deliveries have a triumphant ring while the women make a more intimate sound, but both retain a full‑bodied, warm and engaging timbre throughout. I noticed that the precise, wide‑stereo detail of the stage miking becomes less evident in the 'mid' position and disappears altogether in the far miking, which nevertheless has a nice stereo image and a lovely ambient halo.

Pan these 'far' samples to the rear speakers of your surround mix while positioning the stage miking at the front and your listeners will be effectively seated in a San Francisco cathedral — better warn them not to swear.Each multi‑vowel preset has two layers, which can be crossfaded with an expression (CC11) pedal or controller. Crossfading quickly back and forth between 'ah' and ooh' creates a diphthong effect that the brain translates as 'oowah‑wah‑wah'. The San Franciscan choir members might not be best pleased to learn that their vocal efforts can be transformed into a virtual wah‑wah pedal in this way, but your reviewer found it to be a lot of fun. Experiments with other vowel combinations threw up some interesting possibilities; in tandem with the ability to instantly keyswitch both layers' vowels, this adds a realistic and expressive mobility to what would otherwise be tonally static samples.Tonehammer gently warn that while a historic stone building with acres of stained glass and huge wooden pews creates a stunning visual and sonic environment, the temperature changes caused by the hot Californian midday sun occasionally caused the pews to creak. I heard nothing troublesome while auditioning the samples, but if you detect the odd extraneous noise you can console yourself that it's a natural acoustic phenomenon occurring in a sacred place, rather than a digital spike caused by some malfunctioning piece of kit.Requiem's Phrase Builder syllable‑sequencer, complete with moving candle flame graphics. (Monks not provided.)Those interested in choral 'word building' will be pleased to hear that Requiem gives you the means to create virtual phrases.

The easiest way to do it is simply to play the classical Latin words; these were sung by the choir at a choice of fast and slow speeds, and presets with 'time‑stretch' in their name use the pitch wheel to control speed. The ancient language took me back to my school days — as I heard the familiar chants of 'Adoramus', 'Crucifixus', 'Dominum', 'Lumine' and the rest, I could feel myself slipping into the near‑coma brought on by interminable Latin lessons on wet Thursday afternoons. O Taedium, Miserere Mei. Fortunately, the phrases are sung with sufficient intensity (particularly by tenor Michael Mendelsohn, who hisses his esses and rolls his 'r's with great pantomime‑villain gusto) to keep us awake, and mercifully I'm no longer required to translate them. In an understandable outbreak of self‑big‑upping, the makers also asked the choir to improvise renditions of the non‑Latin word 'Tonehammer', which produced some fairly alarming results.The library lets you create your own words via 19 different Latin‑esque consonant‑vowel combinations, sung in staccato and longer marcato styles: Ag, Cre, Cru, Do, Fah, Fis, Glo, Ky, La, Mus, Nis, Nus, Rhi, Rru, Sanc, Sart, Sin, Son and Tus.

I eagerly set about arranging these into insulting phrases aimed at our hapless coalition government, but managed only 'Fahtus Sartus'; although that had a satisfyingly scatological ring, it failed to accurately convey the full extent of my fury. These full‑choir syllables are sung at maximum volume (I should think so too — if you're going to sing 'ag', you might as well bellow it at the top of your voice). Regardless of their syllabic content, it's good to have such blasting, energetic performances in your arsenal.To help join up these disparate sounds, Tonehammer supply a couple of easy‑to‑use, fun tools: the Quick Chant Builder functions like a classic TR808‑style step sequencer: set the sequence length in bars, specify a tempo in Kontakt and (if necessary) a tempo multiplier, then click on a grid to select the timing and velocity of whichever syllables you wish to trigger. The Phrase Builder does a similar job, and its hilarious graphic of a flame moving across a row of unlit candles is worth the entry price alone. Rather than playing back a sequence of syllables when you hold down a key, the Phrase Builder advances to the next one each time you play a new note. A maximum of 16 syllables can be used, and you can insert blanks if you wish. I tried to perform a version of the spine‑chilling legend emblazoned on the walls of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia: 'Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus' — it didn't sound quite right because the 'c' of 'Sanc' is enunciated too softly, but 'Agnus Agnus Agnus' ('sheep sheep sheep') sounded spot‑on.If you're feeling adventurous, you can create quasi‑syllables by linking a vowel sound to one of the 54 simple and compound consonant sounds included in Requiem.

EastWest/Quantum Leap's Symphonic Choirs was the first choral library to feature multiple mic positions and a 'word building' utility, while the more recent Vienna Choir maintains Vienna Symphonic Library's reputation for forensic musical detail and superb legatos. Both feature separate sopranos, altos, tenors and basses, and EWQLSC also offers soloists and boy's voices. First issued when 32MB hardware samplers ruled the earth, Spectrasonics' five‑CD Akai library Symphony Of Voices has a similar line‑up to EWQLSC and includes pop‑style 'oohs' and 'aahs'. Back in the present day, the impressive specs of Cinesamples Voxos: Epic Virtual Choir make it a worthy contender. Multi‑vowel sustains (m, w). Legato sustains (fc). Classical Latin words (fc, m, w, s).

Marcato syllables (fc). Staccato syllables (fc, w). English words (fc). Numbers (m). Consonants (fc). Slow swell woo — aah (fc).

Slow trill (fc, m, w). Dissonant sweeps (up/down/fast) (fc, m, w). Clusters (long/shrill) (m). Improvised 'tone ambiences' (fc).

Body noises (fc).(fc = full choir; m = men only; w = women only; s = soloists.)A detailed list of Requiem Light's reduced menu of articulations can be read at. Requiem is formatted for Native Instruments' Kontakt 4 sampler, which runs stand‑alone and as a plug‑in on Macs and Windows PCs. The Pro version runs on the full version of Kontakt 4.1.1 or later, and will not work with Kontakt 3.5 or lower, and the Kontakt Player supplied with Requiem Light will not play the Pro instruments. Requiem Pro requires 22.3GB of disk space, while the Light version needs only 3.2GB. Tonehammer don't publish minimum specs, but as with any library utilising large numbers of samples and multiple mic positions, a fast computer with plenty of RAM is advisable — I'd recommend a minimum of 4GB.

If your system has less, you can still use the library effectively by sticking to one mic position, using the optional DFD versions of instruments and utilising Kontakt's 'purge' function to remove unused samples from your arrangements.Buyers are sent an email containing a download link to a set of compressed RAR files (the Pro version has over 30 of them — if you have a slow broadband connection, they'll take a very long time to download). There are separate rar files for the samples, the Kontakt instruments, the user interface images and a small utility for installing the last. After downloading, you extract the files' contents with UNRAR, a utility which most people have in their systems. If you don't have it, Tonehammer tell you where you can download it free of charge. You only need to extract the first sample's rar file (the rest will follow automatically), and the makers supply clear, detailed instructions about where to place the extracted data on your hard drive. After that, it remains only to authorise the library at the Native Instruments Service Centre, using your serial number. All contents copyright © SOS Publications Group and/or its licensors, 1985-2019.

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Requiem Light is a professional symphonic choir library specifically designed for epic cinematic scoring and dramatic trailer composition, packed with a huge mix-ready sound in a supremely light ram and disk footprint. Whether you use it in your studio or take it on the road, it has a rich, dynamic cathedral choir sound that's equally perfect for achieving soaring fortissimo power or sculpting delicately soft melodic detail. We recorded Requiem Light in the massive sanctuary hall at historic Saint Paul's in San Francisco and conducted by award-winning maestro Robert Geary with hand-picked members of Volti, SF Symphony Chorus, SF Opera and the San Francisco Choral Society. The choir was captured with 12 large diaphragm microphones and expertly mixed and mastered into a perfectly-balanced stereo image. This instant mix-ready master mix provides you intuitive ease-of-use and resource efficiency right out of the box, without the usual system resource and performance cost.The library contains polyphonic true-legato sustains for full unison choir, with essential Ah, Eh and Oh vowel types with smooth piano-forte dynamic cross-fade control.

It also includes men's and women's divisi sustains for six common vowel sounds (Ah, Ee, Eh, Ih, Oh and Oom). There are 24 staccato syllables with round-robin and 16 ultra-forte sustaining single-syllable marcato words to choose from, with integrated phrase-sequencing.We also include 20 fast and 12 slow multi-syllable Latin words with time-stretching, tempo-synching and legato control. It also features 10 expressive poly-sustain articulations for Tenor and Soprano soloists.You'll also find hundreds of dramatic and creative choral effects including clusters, demonic chants, glisses, swells, sweeps, consonants, shouts, stomps, breaths, claps, snaps and more.

You can also choose from 119 custom convolution reverb and FX impulse responses to place the choir in different environment or create unique atmospheric and special textural effects.The library also offers a variety of uniquely sound-designed atmospheric and choral pad content for underscoring, layering, EDM and ambient songwriting, soundscape creation and more. This library has been licensed for use in the free virtual instrument engine. It can be used in Kontakt Player or the full retail version of Kontakt (version 5.5.2 or later) for VST, AU or AAX instrument plugin formats. You can add this product to the Kontakt “Libraries” browser. It requires online serial number registration through the Native Instruments Service Center app.

This library is also fully compatible with Komplete Kontrol and all S-Series Keyboard Controllers by Native Instruments. Purchasing this library qualifies you for a great cross-grade discount toward the full unlocked version of through Native Instruments!

Product Specs. 4,243 Samples. 4.72 GB installed (6.4+ GB wav source).

14 nki Kontakt instrument presets. 24 bit / 48kHz lossless NCW format samples. Works with the free Kontakt Player. Includes bonus choral atmospheres, soundscapes, drones and evolving sound designed pads, hand-crafted from the source.Documentation.System RequirementsThis Powered-By-Kontakt Player Edition is supported by the latest version of the free Kontakt Player (VST, AU, AAX) and the special “Libraries” rack.

Windows XP or higher required for PC. OSX 10.9 or higher required for Mac.

Dual Core CPU, 3+ GB System Ram, SATA or SSD hard drive recommended for this library. This software is delivered as a digital download, so a broadband connection is required.

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