Voice of the Sun - Sunflower

A female Ukrainian solo vocal library built for Kontakt

Voice Of The Sun - Sunflower invites you to explore the soul of Ukrainian tradition through deeply emotive lyrical phrases, chromatic vowel sustains, staccatos, and expressive swells. This library marks a new horizon in our vocal series, balancing authentic cultural heritage with modern playability.

This project was developed in close partnership with session producer, director, and engineer Maks Histibe. Drawing from the creative vision behind Swords to Ploughshares, Maks has hand-selected 864 lyrical phrases derived from Ukrainian poetic literature (1698–1905).

Each performance captures the abiding spirit and rich cultural history of a nation, sung with the dynamic, improvisational nuance of deep folk tradition. It was performed by vocalist Kristina Glushenkova, and recorded on location at Letti Music in Kyiv.

Our intuitive interface makes it easy to sequence and recombine hundreds of distinct phrases. For full immersion, each performance includes real-time, on-screen text captions in both English and Ukrainian.

Beyond the lyrical content, the library features 267 pure vowel melodic phrases and playable chromatic articulations, including sustain, swell, and staccato with round-robin, sampled in Ah, Oo, and Hummed variations.

This library comes with an adaptable LFO system, with selectable LFO shape, modulation target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing and fade-in time. You can also apply your choice of 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, with assignable modulation targets such as velocity, modwheel, expression, after-touch, key position and step sequencer table control. Our customizable arpeggiator offers a velocity table and control over arp direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. We’ve included a key and scale lock system to constrain your notes to common scales and keys for easy melodic composition and live performance.

Features

• Ukrainian female solo vocals performed by Kristina Glushenkova
• Over 800 lyrical phrases from classical Ukrainian poetry, and over 250 emotional vowel phrases
• Sustains, Swells, and Staccato articulations for 3 vowels: Ah, Oo, Hummed
• 24 Powerful Kontakt .nki instrument presets
• 60 custom soundscapes, synth leads, and pads in our custom 4 layer interface
• 1,528 samples in unlocked .WAV format
• 1.75 GB Installed
• A flexible, intuitive user interface and mixer with pro features and deep customizability
• Full FX rack with convolution reverb with custom rooms, halls, chambers & FX environments

Note: The full unlocked retail version of Kontakt 6.6 or later is required for all Kontakt nki instrument presets in this library. The free Kontakt Player, Libraries rack, Native Access, Komplete Kontrol and the “Add Library” import feature do not support this library.