FluffyAudio – Dominus Choir (KONTAKT)

When the Fluffyaudio initiative began and our first sample library was released, we already dreamed about how good it would be to sample a vocal ensemble. Five years have passed since My Piano, our first domino tile, came out. Thanks to our employees and friends and, in addition, our loyal supporters and harsh critics, we have gained great experience. We like to think of all these people as life sap, giving energy that helped our ideas keep flowing, even when they were about to stop.
When we thought about sampling the choir, we had no doubt who we want to entrust this business to. Mario Lanaro, whom we had the pleasure of meeting for years of study at the University of Verona, possessed all the qualities we were looking for. Having not only serious and professional classical training, he is a famous choral conductor, a great organist and composer with growing fame. He has the right balance between leadership, authority, brilliance and mutual understanding, as well as the desired ability to bring the people with whom he works in the right mood to do everything possible. On the one hand, we wanted the mechanism to work smoothly; on the other hand, we do not want to lose the freshness of novelty, which makes people more caring and responsive. We achieved this by choosing two choirs that had a long history of previous special engagements with Mario Lanaro – so that they already knew each other well.
Again, we wanted to find a suitable place to sample this special library: something that could be both a church, a concert hall and a recording studio, but at the same time none of these places. That’s why we decided to sample Dominus Choir in Crema, in the beautiful Sala Giardino. This is the same place that we had the pleasure of discovering and appreciating in our “Rinascimento sessions”. We started on July 11th with the female vocal ensemble “La Rose”. Usually conducted by Mrs. Jose Borgo, the girls came in sparkling in the morning. After an amazing session, we were almost embarrassed, not satisfied. How could men do such a wonderful job and how would they sound compared to these wonderful voices? But we were even more surprised when, after the first day in the men’s choir – and especially after a rich dinner, without saving wine – they continued to sing perfectly in harmony, with the right mood and energy, almost repeating the hellish work of these angelic voices. It’s amazing how differently you can get two identical things from different perspectives. For example, girls almost always twisted their hands with their hands, as if they were drawing or pulling on magic wires, feeling that somehow these gestures helped them. In contrast, the men from the Novecento vocal ensemble, usually led by Mr. Maurizio Sacchia, stood like columns of an ancient Roman church.
One of the things we were not sure about – even if the conductors reassured us at our preliminary meetings – was the endurance of the singers. We thought that the voice gets tired much faster than any other thing. We planned short recording sessions with a lot of breaks, but, fortunately, this time we were wrong. And “La Rose” and the ensemble “Novecento” caused us a very strong sense of amazement – they sang not only during the session, but even just for fun after each lunch and dinner. And, since we found that the human voice is one of the most exciting instruments, all our food almost always ended in tears ..!

Content:

4 Stereo Mic Positions
30 gb installed (compressed in NCW format)
24 bit / 48 kHz stereo
Innovative and smooth engine with easy to use GUI
True Legato for all vowels
Complete control over the duration of each syllable
50 initial syllables + 150 middle / end syllables
3 keyboard layouts
Sampled in a warm hall
200+ premade words
13 reverb presets
Velocity Lock for precise tweaking of each note
No unnecessary controls: instant fun!
Sleepless nights of editing and scripting
Female Vocal Ensemble “La Rose”
Borgo jose
Carraro aline
Collareda simona
Del santo chiara
Graziani elisa
Graziani nadia
Meda benedetta
Sartori Anna
Scarabelli stefania
Tribbia gloria
Zamberlan lucia
Male Vocal Ensemble “Novecento”
Castello diego
Corso fabio
Crestani michele
Ferro michele
Micheletti gianluca
Piccino nicola
Sacquegna maurizio
Scalici gianmarco
Signorini piermatteo
Simeoni marco
Stevani gianmarco
Tosetto alessandro
Turazza nicola
Verzin simone