Mars Symphonic Men’s Choir

The Mars Symphonic Men’s Choir is a comprehensive male choral ensemble library designed for professional film and television scoring, symphonic arrangement and music production. It is the most complete and detailed men’s choir sample library available anywhere, with a sound and playability that cannot be matched. Mars was designed as the first offering in our now widely acclaimed Olympus choral series. To build this titan, we took everything we had learned from engineering, developing and programming previous choir projects we worked on over the years at Tonehammer (Requiem, Liberis) and applied them here. Our goal was to provide a level of total flexibility, deep functionality and total sonic power that professional composers need. Mars covers a wide range of Latin, Russian (Slavonic) and Pure Vowel content, with a full set of chromatic articulations including sustains, marcatos, staccatos, true legato, clusters, falls, swells, effects and a trio of stellar male soloists. We recorded over 10 days at Montclair Presbyterian, high in the Oakland Hills, with a 30-voice hand-picked group of SF Symphony Chorus, SF Opera, SF Choral Society and Volti singers. It includes a pair of simplified wide stereo mic positions (stage and hall), giving you the flexibility to incorporate the full-bodied sound of Mars easily and efficiently into your mix. Mars offers unbeatable value, with superior range of detailed articulations, robust sonic presence and excellent true legato fluidity at an affordable price. Contents Mars features a full 30-voice male chorus as well as 3 soloists singing in both Slavonic (Russian liturgical) and Latin. A wide variety of content is included for both languages, as well as a large collection of choral effects (shouts, sweeps, clusters, etc.). It includes two masterfully mixed composite microphone distance positions (stage and hall), carefully blended from an array of 10 discreet large-diaphragm Neumann Microphones, with wide pairs ranging in distance from 1 meter to 25 meters. The two-composite position configuration allows the best balance between placement, flexibility and performance while providing a truly massive, robust and full-bodied sound. In addition to the true legato, chorus sustains, ALL sustaining articulations in the library include 3-part polyphonic pseudo-legato (all vowel sustains, fast & slow polysustains, soloist vowel sustains, soloist slow & melodic poly-sustains) Mars also features a unique bonus collection of Ambiences, Drones, Textures and FX content. Features Full Chorus 2 Languages: Slavonic (Russian liturgical) and Latin. Massive New Marcato Builder – Explore our brand new word-building functionality, with your choice of 7 major vowel sustain types, each with multiple variants and a combined total of 42 independently selectable attack syllables and 42 release sounds, each with independent round-robin and automation-ready controls. Combined Marcato/Staccato Phrase Builder with preset saving and the ability to store and cycle or keyswitch between up to 16 different user created sequences. 42 Marcatos w/ round-robin. 26 Staccatos w/ round-robin. Kontakt 5 Tempo-Synching for poly-sustain presets. Kontakt 5 Time-stretching for Choral Effects. Kontakt 5 Legato Speed Control (from tight legato to slow portamento). 12 Slavonic 100bmp Slow Polysustains (sustaining w/release). 11 Slavonic 140bpm Fast Polysustains (sustaining w/release). 11 Latin 100bmp Slow Polysustains (sustaining w/release). 14 Melodic “Gregorian” Extended slow Poly-sustains, with Atonal Droning Versions of each: (70 bpm / 3/4 timing). 14 Latin whisper Slow Polysustains (sustaining w/release). 7 Latin 140bpm Fast Polysustains (sustaining w/release). Dozens of unique sustaining vowels w/ round-robin and independent attack & release (PP – FFF). 5 True Legato Vowels: Ah, Oo (p), Oo (f), Oh, Mm. A huge collection of choral shouts, effects, drones and war chants / yells. Soloists 1 Master Bass Soloist and 2 Exquistite Tenor Soloists