Publisher: Soniccouture
Website: soniccouture
Format: KONTAKT FULL & K’ed 6.2+
Quality: 24 bit 48 kHz stereo
Description: Our most ambitious sampling project to date!
Following on from the Conservatoire Collection, which was recorded at the prestigious Birmingham Conservatory, Soniccouture explored another historic site, the All Saints Church in Tooting, Surrey. With such a unique building, huge organ and New London Chamber Choir, Soniccouture presents us with the All Saints Collection. Will Soniccouture supply another beautiful handcrafted tool? Let the singers talk about it!
ALL SAINTS CHOIR is a traditional church choir of soprano, alto, tenor and bass (SATB). For starters, this is not your huge theatrical choir with massive dynamics, thunderous roars and polysyllabic staccato, it is an intimate, beautiful and detailed ensemble choir. However, using cluster mode, it can go from sheer beauty to extreme horror with up to 12 atonal horror voices in cluster mode. There are also some handy sound design patches that give the library an extra dimension.
Upon loading, the GUI instantly captures you and has all the character and sophistication we’ve come to expect from Soniccouture. It is stylish, uncluttered, sleek and very well designed. There are no hieroglyphs to decipher, everything is very clear. Ed Al-Shakarchi’s gorgeous photo is proudly at the center of the GUI. The main patch is loaded with soprano and alto sections only when using the middle mic. Four microphone positions can be swapped and mixed on the fly. The natural sound of All Saints Church is impeccable, and the mixing of near, front, middle and far microphones further enriches the sound. First impressions are a beautiful sounding choir. You are transported to the very heart of the church, as if you were attending a choir concert. This is the level of detail and character of the All Saints Choir. Incredible!
The vowels A, I and U are already loaded with the option to load the sounds O, E and M. I load them quickly and find that they are toggled with keys that can be moved either below the chorus or above. The full SATB chorus sounds great!
Characteristics :
14GB Library, 9GB with NCW compression
24 / 48khz stereo sampling
30,494 samples
4 microphone arrays: spot cardioids, ORTF cardioids, spaced omnis, ambient omnis
6 vocal articulations (a, i, u, e, o, m)
True legato sampling
Legato + Poly Legato mode
Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass sections recorded individually
Cluster: multiple atonal detune module
