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We’re always looking for new voices to inspire us. For Sylvan – Volume 1, we called on the imagination and evocative style of fantasy/folk singer Jordi Storm. The resulting sample library is a marvelous collection of phrases that can be seamlessly integrated into existing tracks or used as a starting point for new compositions.

Sylvan – Volume 1 captures Jordi’s signature vocal style, inspired by nature, folk traditions, and the fantastic. He makes full use of his impressive range here: from the textural bass tones of his lower register to the soaring sweetness of his upper register and even a touch of falsetto.

The evocative nature of Jordi’s musicality comes through in the names for each phrase category: four elvish collections (Eldarin, Ethuil, Menel, and Nalta) and eight named for nature (Falling Star, Crystal Winter, Turning Seasons, and Distant Lands; Ancient Shore, Ethereal Winds, Voices of the Forest, and Celestia).

 

 

 

Just like we did with Allura and Charisma, we focused on making this collection as usable and inspiring as possible.

Sylvan – Volume 1 groups its 144 phrases into easily searched groups with detailed tags. Because freeform phrases can be challenging to work with, all performances were recorded to a set tempo so that they are easier to incorporate into your writing. The whole collection covers multiple modes and time signatures.

Each phrase has been recorded across 4 keys; all phrases can be played in any key. The phrases are wordless, featuring a broad span of different syllables (oo, ah, hey, hai, ha, no, ee, eh, ra, ya, ka) but no distracting lyrics.

And if you don’t want to use our very flexible Kontakt engine for finding, editing, and playing phrases, you can simply use them directly in your DAW with clearly labeled WAVs.

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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 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.