Vocalisa: Slavic Women's Choir
The electrifying and power sound of Bulgarian-style singing.
$129
Audio Demos
- The Storm Within Andrew Aversa 1:26
- Million Years Andrew Aversa 0:51
- Clap! Dmitry Selipanov 1:28
- Sea of Flames Blake Ewing 1:16
- Slavic Rising Dov Waterman 1:36
- Daughters of Illyria Henning Nugel 2:05
- Making of Cyborg Kenji Kawai (arr. Will Roget, II) 1:26
- Sea of Flames (Full) Blake Ewing 1:51
- Clap! (Full) Dmitry Selipanov 2:03
- Slavic Rising (Full) Dov Waterman 2:47
Overview
Discover the powerful sound of Slavic (Bulgarian-style) singing as performed by an all-female chorus: sopranos, mezzos, altos, soloist, and full choir. Vocalisa features many important syllables and consonants idiomatic to this style, plus useful pitch articulations (mordents, turns) and FX (breaths, claps, clusters.)
Product Info
Detailed recordings for a versatile sound with air
Recorded in a treated studio space, pre-mixed and ready to be used in any composition.
Traditional Slavic choral singing
Seven core syllables plus ornaments
Eh, mah, yah, ree, shteh, svah, and oh syllables; “eh” and “yik” ornaments, as well as mordents, turns, and breaths.
Four separately recorded sections
Altos, mezzos, mezzo-sopranos, and full choir, each with a master patch and FX patch (shouts, yells).
Bonus soprano soloist
Recorded with eh, shteh, mah, svah, yah, and ree syllables, ornaments, breaths, and separate FX patch.
Features
Two modes: grid sequencer and keyswitch
Trigger ornaments with a single note
Four built-in FX modules
Per-syllable editing and tweaks
Save, load, and copy syllable patterns
Requirements
3GB of disk space
7200 RPM hard drive or solid state drive recommended.
3GB of RAM
Higher amounts of memory let you load more instruments.
Kontakt 4.2.4+ Full Version
This library is NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player.
Kontakt Requirements - Mac OS
Intel Macs (i5 or higher): macOS 10.14, 10.15, 11 or 12 (latest update).
Apple Silicon Macs (via Rosetta 2 & natively on ARM in Standalone or in hosts that support it): macOS 11 or 12 (latest update)
Kontakt Requirements - Windows
Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10 (latest Service Pack, 32/64-bit). Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU. Graphics hardware support for OpenGL 2.1 or higher. Windows 10 strongly recommended.
Tutorials
Introduction & Overview
Library Demo & Tips
Featured Artists & Composers
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."
Simon Franglen
Titanic, Skyfall, Spectre, Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water
Impact Soundworks make detailed, emotive instruments. I’ve happily bought over two dozen of their libraries which should say everything. They get used every day.
Jeff Broadbent
Assassin’s Creed Identity, Call of Duty Mobile, Resident Evil, Diablo Immortal, Transformers: Dark of the Moon
"ISW creates amazing, creative, and intuitive virtual instruments! I’ve enjoyed using them for over a decade, and they have found their way into many of my music scores. Their wonderfully realistic world instruments showed up in a recent Nexon video game, Shreddage 3 Stratus on the score for Grid, and Super Audio Boy is a favorite for retro sounds, effects, and fun nostalgia. Highly recommended!"
The interface of Vocalisa allows for full control over the performance and sound of each section. Articulations and syllables can be triggered via keyswitch, or sequenced using the “Grid Mode” pictured below.
Each syllable and ornament can be tweaked individually – volume, offset, and brightness. For example, using offset on the “mah” syllable can create a simple “ah” vowel, or “shteh” can be shortened to “teh”. The brightness knob is also a highly useful tool for shaping the timbre and tonality of the performance.
Other global effects are available as well! We’ve included handy tools such as a compressor, stereo width control (for widening or collapsing to mono), release noise mixer, EQ, and convolution reverb.
Reviews
Vocalisa – Film and Game Composers
“After playing for just a little, it starts to sound good. Real good. This choir has energy, and lots of it… When playing the Full Choir Master patch you can almost see them standing outside and singing into the blowing winds. It sounds strong, brave and beautiful. I have nothing [else] that conjures the same feeling… [it] lends a whole new tone or vibe to what I already have and you can go with a full choir or a more intimate one. Vocalisa has a filled a spot in my palette of sounds that I didn’t know was missing. It has a safe place in my template from now on.”
Thomas Mavian (Film and Game Composers)