Special Reserves
Sylvan Vocal Layers
Moving, ethereal background vocals in a masculine range.
$29
Audio Demos
- Obsidian Shores Jordi Storm
- Eternal Forest Andrew Aversa
- Sis Puella Magica! Yuki Kajiura (Arranged by DanFourts)
- Everything Goes On Autumn Wood - (Arranged by Riot Music Team and Porter Robinson)
- Magister Automata Dan Forts
- Moon River Henry Mancini (Arranged By Nick Baronowsky)
- Movements Jared LeDoux
- Reborn Shane Roberts
- Path to the Sylvan Forest Andreas Martin Wimmer
- Obsidian Shores (Library Only) Jordi Storm
- Eternal Forest (Library Only) Andrew Aversa
- Sis Puella Magica! (Library Only) Yuki Kajiura (Arranged by DanFourts)
- Everything Goes On (Library Only) Autumn Wood - (Arranged by Riot Music Team and Porter Robinson)
- Magister Automata (Library Only) Dan Forts
- Movements (Library Only) Jared LeDoux
- Reborn (Library Only) Shane Roberts
- Path to the Sylvan Forest (Library Only) Andreas Martin Wimmer
Overview
Wordless background vocals that you can build and shape, featuring the ethereal voice of Jordi Storm. Whether you’re making atmospheric folk, new age music, or scoring film/games/TV, Jordi’s voice provides an otherworldly quality in a deeper, masculine range. The Special Reserves series delivers production-ready sounds that are streamlined and extremely easy to use.
Product Info
Ethereal voice by Jordi Storm
Featuring a haunting performance by a celebrated vocalist who draws deep inspiration from the nature around him.
Stack up to 5 voices per note
Choose anywhere from 1-5 vocal tracks, with additional options for breath, stereo width, and more.
Crystal-clear recording quality
Detailed recordings captured on a high-end Mojave microphone.
Blend between ooh, ahh, and mm syllables
Three classic, wordless choral sounds at your disposal. Blend the sounds in real time, or use any combination of them at the same time.
C1 to C5 vocal range
Jordi’s natural vocal range, extended slightly for increased versatility.
Features
Designed around a clear, inspiring sonic concept
Beautiful high-res UI
Eight automatable controls as easy-to-use as possible
Carefully and delicately hand-looped
Incredible versatility with 5 voices, 3 sounds, and other timbral options
Requirements
100MB of disk space
7200 RPM hard drive or solid state drive recommended.
2GB of RAM
Higher amounts of memory let you load more instruments.
Kontakt 7.8+ Player compatible
This library IS compatible with the free Kontakt Player.
Kontakt Requirements - Mac OS
Intel Macs (i5 or higher): macOS 11, 12, or 13 (latest update)
Apple Silicon Macs (via Rosetta 2 & natively on ARM in Standalone or in hosts that support it): macOS 11, 12 or 13 (latest update).
Kontakt Requirements - Windows
Windows: Windows 10 or 11 (latest Service Pack), Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU, 2 GB RAM. Graphics hardware support for OpenGL 2.1 or higher.
Tutorials
Overview and Walkthrough
Featured Artists & Composers
Kevin Manthei
Angry Birds Mystery Island, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Villainous, Neverwinter, Star Trek Online
"ISW creates some of the most inspiring & realistic guitar sample libraries. I had to write a bunch of really gritty, angry heavy metal & sports action rock cues. I used Shreddage 3 Serpent for leads and was blown away by its onboard processing, programming, and amazing live-sounding leads. I also created a signature sound based on the lead guitar in David Lynch's Twin Peaks series, originally played on baritone guitar. [Serpent] built a convincing replica of that sound just using on-board FX. It was so fun and easy to do!"
Richard Jacques
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, Mass Effect, Overwatch 2, James Bond 007: Blood Stone
"I'm a huge fan of the Ventus Winds series. They feature rare instruments deep-sampled to an incredibly high level of detail. It's so liberating to have such a wide range of articulations & phrases that perfectly capture the nuances and performance style of these instruments... from beautiful to haunting, celebratory to sorrowful. Each is expertly recorded and the sound quality is superb, sitting in the mix with ease. If you want to add authentic world winds to your palette, then look no further."
Jimmy Hinson
Black Ops 4, Mass Effect 2, There Came An Echo, Borderlands 2
“Between Shreddage, Super Audio Cart, Juggernaut, and Mega Brass I don’t remember the last time I haven’t used an Impact Soundworks instrument in a track. The attention to detail is astonishing and it’s all so easy to use out of the box, which is a big deal.”
Special Reserves: Sylvan Vocal Layers features the ethereal voice of male vocalist Jordi Storm. With a range from C1 to C5, this extremely straightforward library uses Jordi’s unique vocal style for wordless textures that you can layer and shape however you want.
Whether you’re filling in background vocals for a pop song or looking for a shimmering chorus to add some life to a media scoring project, Sylvan Vocal Layers gives you the same breathy, evocative textures of your favorite vocal libraries in a deeper range that you don’t often see.
Sylvan Vocal Layers is designed to be easy for composers to use. Based on the same interface as Allura Pop Stacks, your options are endless, but finding them is easy. Jordi has recorded each note on oohs, ahs, and mms 5 times each. That means you have plenty of freedom to sculpt your sound before you even dig into options like the stereo width or breathiness.
Jordi’s haunting voice is perfect for adding depth to an arrangement, or for creating shimmering walls of background harmony. With three wordless syllables and up to five voices for each note, you have an incredible breadth of sounds and several easy ways to expand them, making this a crucial piece of any media composer’s toolkit.
Jordi Storm is a vocalist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist from Finland, by way of England. In addition to his primary instrument, the Celtic harp, he plays the Finnish kantele, Irish low whistle, and more.
In his own solo music, Jordi loves layering his voice in thick walls of vocal harmony, and singing in his own constructed language, Etherean. His voice can be heard as half of Forest Elves, in the game Lineage W by NCSoft, and on Tomoki Miyoshi’s official arrange album for Square-Enix’s Lost Sphear. His Celtic harp work appears in the VR game Tin Hearts, as well.
The Special Reserves series delivers production-ready sounds that are streamlined and extremely easy to use. Created by Impact Soundworks co-founder Andrew Aversa, each entry in the series is designed around a single sonic concept, polished to a mirror shine and ready to drop in your next hit soundtrack or record. Sporting just 8 simple controls, these instruments make it as simple as possible to get great results.
Reviews
Testimonial – Jimmy ‘Big Giant Circles’ Hinson (Black Ops 4, Borderlands 2, Threes)
“Between Shreddage, Super Audio Cart, Juggernaut, and Mega Brass I don’t remember the last time I haven’t used an Impact Soundworks instrument in a track. The attention to detail is astonishing and it’s all so easy to use out of the box, which is a big deal.”