Voice of Wind: Audrey

Voice of Wind: Audrey is the third volume in the modular female solo vocal series Voices of Wind. Each volume focuses on a new vocalist with a distinct creative style and comes complete with a full package of vital chromatic and melodic articulations that sound great and are easy and convenient to use in any music or video production project that comes your way. This edition focuses on the wise and charming mezzo-soprano voice of Audrey Howitt. Her stirring, airy, and dulcet vocal character effortlessly fuses classical, operatic, folk, blues, pop, and mystical vocal styles.

This 2.38 GB library includes over 3,200 samples, featuring sustain, staccato (8x round-robin) and true legato chromatic articulations for 6 core vowels: Ah, Eh, Ee, Mm, Oh and Oo. It also includes over a thousand live dynamic, melodic phrases organized by mood, key and tempo. This huge collection of live phrases are divided into 100bpm and 140bpm tempos for both Bright and Dark categories, as well as a special 120bpm Hummed category. Soundiron have also included 20 sound-designed custom FX and ambient presets to expand your creative palette. It all comes together in a complete, efficient and deeply-refined toolbox of chromatic articulations and powerful melodic elements with tempo-syncing and key options, all built into a flexible, full-featured user interface.

Audrey Howitt

Audrey Howitt is a recovering attorney, licensed psychotherapist, opera singer, teacher, and sometimes, a poet. She teaches voice in the San Francisco bay area and is an associated voice teacher with several award-winning choirs including Piedmont East Bay Children's Choirs, the Young Women’s Choral Project of San Francisco, and the Head Royce School. She has been an associated voice teacher with the San Francisco Girls Chorus, along with maintaining an active private studio. Ms. Howitt has sung with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus and the SF Chamber Singers. She has appeared in opera & musical theatre roles, covering both mezzo-soprano and soprano repertoire. She holds a master’s degree in music from Holy Names University and is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Audrey has a light, smooth, and flexible voice, with a wisdom and character which can only come from years of experience.

Contents

This Kontakt library features true legato, plus an array of staccato syllables with 8x round-robin, spanning over two playable octaves. A huge collection of live phrases that are divided into 100bpm and 140bpm tempos for both bright and dark categories, as well as a special 120bpm hummed category. The phrases are intuitively organized by root tempo and mood. However, tempo-syncing, time-stretching and pitch transposition controls give you complete freedom to customize. You can also shape, blend and sequence phrases, with phrase-legato, step sequencer, speed-control and live waveform editing. The library includes 20 sound-designed custom FX and ambient presets to expand your creative palette. Soundiron have also included a comprehensive FX Rack, with compression, delay, filter, EQ, amp/speaker simulation and convolution reverb, featuring dozens of rooms, cathedrals and otherworldly fx to open endless possibilities.

Audrey was recorded in a dry studio environment, using a high dynamic range, large-diaphragm Neumann studio microphone and Sound Devices preamps to get maximum detail, clarity, fidelity and clean dynamic range. This library is NKS compatible so you can use it seamlessly in Kontakt 6 Player and Komplete Kontrol.

• Ah, Eh, Ee, Mm, Oh and Oo natural true legato
• Ah, Eh, Ee, Oh, Oo in both piano and forte dynamic layers and Mm & La with a single dynamic layer. Staccatos with 8 round-robin variations per note
• 100bpm and 140bpm tempos for both Bright and Dark phrase categories
• A special 120bpm Hummed phrase category
• Over a thousand melodic phrases in multiple keys, with pitch transposition, instant pattern sequencing, legato blending, tempo-synching/time-stretching, shaping and more.
• Easy to navigate melodic phrases, organized intuitively by style, native tempo and root key.
• Fluid sequencer allows for per-step phrase start and end markers.
• Vocal performance breaths for added realism
• Swell control allows real-time dynamic performance shaping.
• Full Multi-FX rack panel with Chorus, Compression, Distortion, Amp and Cab simulation, EQ, Delay and Reverb
• A Reverb rack unit which includes 25 unique creative FX convolutions and 45 excellent live rooms, studios, chambers, cathedrals, halls and other real-world environments, with flexible tone, size and mix controls.
• Fully automatable, with customisable key switch and GUI controls.
• Convenient real-time visual wave-form display in every preset.

Kontakt Format

This library has been licensed for use in the free Kontakt Player virtual instrument engine. It can be used in Kontakt Player or the full retail version of Kontakt (version 6 or later) for VST, AU or AAX instrument plugin formats. You can add this product to the Kontakt “Libraries” browser. It requires online serial number registration through the Native Instruments Service Center app. This library is also fully compatible with Komplete Kontrol and all S-Series Keyboard Controllers by Native Instruments.

Features

• 2.38 GB Installed
• 3,254 Samples
• 28 powerful NKI instrument banks in Kontakt 6 Player format
• 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
• 24-bit, 48 kHz Stereo Lossless NCW Format
• Made for the free Kontakt Player (version 6+), Komplete Kontrol, all S-Series Keyboards and NKS software and hardware by Native Instruments
• Works with the Kontakt "Libraries" browser and Native Access

System Requirements

• Windows 7 or higher required.
• OSX 10.12 or higher required.
• Dual-Core CPU, 3+ GB System Ram, SATA or SSD hard drive recommended for this library.
• This software is delivered as a digital download, so a broadband connection is required.

Important Note:

• This Powered-By-Kontakt Player Edition is supported by version 6 or later of the FREE Kontakt Player (VST, AU, AAX) and the special “Libraries” rack.