Inspired by the famous Lord of the Rings Moria men choir sound - Wotan is the evolution of Strezov Sampling's famous choir sampling philosophy, which combines never before sampled vocal timbres (basso profundos) with next-gen scripting.
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min. of 16GB RAM
HOW TO INSTALL WOTAN MALE CHOIR
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About WOTAN
After spending three years exploring various methods to sample choirs Strezov Sampling finally brings to you the next generation of virtual choirs. Focusing on one of the most iconic choir timbres of the last decades in the history of film soundtracks - The Khazad-dûm male choir - Wotan is the ultimate box of tools to evoke the sound of a long forgotten kingdom.
Comprised of ten tenors and ten basses (including basso profundos), all part of many choir recording sessions for artists like Two Steps from Hell, and recorded in the Sofia Session Studio Wotan is the perfect addition to the critically acclaimed StormChoir range adding a whole new layer of dimension and detail.
Syllabuilder Engine 3.5
When it comes to virtual choirs there are basically two approaches: Phrasebulding (StormChoir series) and Wordbuilding (Rhodope series). Wotan combines the simplicity and sample recording of phrasebuilding with the advanced editing functions of wordbuilding. This allows you to have amazing sounding results within seconds, but also to build and create new sample content with only few mouse-clicks. Create complete choral patterns inside the GUI or connect different syllables and morph them to add motion to your choir arrangements. Save and Load complete lyric presets to quickly get yourself into the actual composition or enhance your setup with predefined quick words.
All samples have their natural attacks included. However if you want to tighten them up the Syllabuilder Engine allows you to set custom attack, release, volume and offset values for each field independently. Something completely new and greatly missed in all phrasebuilding choir libraries.
Revolutionary Agile Legato
Although there are many reasons WOTAN justifies to be called a next-gen library the biggest of them all is the brandnew Agile Legato. Uncountable hours of work went into creating this brandnew technique of combining true legato sampling with our Syllabuilding approach. Agile Legato not only allows the user to play legato with every syllable availabe in the library, but also features intelligent voice leading enabling polyphonic writing within just one patch. In other words: Hold down a chord in the left, play a melody with your right hand and have it all connected with legato transitions. This powerful feature is controllable by the most common of all midi cc controllers, the sustain pedal.
In addition to the Agile Legato WOTAN also features polyphonic true legato patches (Ah, Mm and Oh) for both tenors and basses, which gives you tons of flexibility when it comes to writing legato lines.
The Performance Patch - Amazing sounding results within seconds!
By tradition our choral products excel at accessibility and getting great sounding choir lines within seconds. The Performance Patch allows you to perform your choir lines on the fly due to custom edits of the recordings to make them extremely playable, while maintaining their organic and raw tone.
Our Velocity Dynamic Influencer allows you to determine the loudness of single chord notes by velocity, which makes highlighting certain notes within a chord easier than ever, while Modwheel CC1 still controls crossfading between the natural dynamic layers. The combination of both greatly enhances the expression you can get out of a regular keyboard performance.
If you ever looked for a "go-to" choir patch. This is it!
Overview:
- 10 GB compressed and optimized sample content
- Instant Lord of the Rings sound!
- Separate recordings of ten tenors and ten basses
- The lowest basses ever sampled (Kontra G)
- 8 Polyphonic True Legato Patches (Ah, Oh, Mhm and MhmOhAh) for Tenors and Basses
- 8 powerful syllables recorded within 3 dynamic layers
- Performance Patch included
- Sustain (1xRR) and Staccato (2xRR) samples
- 3 mic positions - Close, Decca, Hall + custom convolution reverb
- Whispers and Shouts with multiple RRs recorded for all syllables
- Bonus sample content - 3 types of clusters recorded for tenors and basses within 3 dynamic layers!
- The powerful Syllabuilder engine with CONNECT and MORPH modes that allow you to create your own sample content within Kontakt
- Ability to Load and Save your lyrics, built-in preset manager
- Integrated Help
- Combined and premixed men patch
- Lite patches for composers who don't need all features of the library
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What our community shares
I love Wotan Male Choir! It's an aggressive instrument that really captures the sound of an epic male choir. Wotan also comes with a useful phrase builder and I'm especially impressed with the choir shouts and whispering recordings, which can also be controlled by the phrase builder! Amazing Stuff!
Jesper Kyd
Assassin's Creed Series, Borderlands Series, Hitman Series
REALLY LOVE the choirs, we want these plastered everywhere and to have a huge influence on the other tracks!
Peter Conelly
Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, Watch Dogs
Strezov Sampling has become my first choice for choir and percussion libraries which often play a big part in what I write. Great quality and most importantly, highly playable. Can’t wait to see what they come up with next!
Neal Acree
World of Warcraft, Overwatch
String Contours 2 is in a league of its own.
In over 30 years of collecting sound libraries, I’ve never been able to achieve truly realistic, fully controllable portamento bends across every string section… until now. Violins to basses—any note, any speed. Total expressive freedom.
I used it on day one for new music in The Outlast Trials—and the client loved it.
Before this, I’d need a live orchestra. Now? Just Strezov.
Tom Salta
Deathloop, Halo, The Outlast Trials, PUBG
Excellent sound and the highest quality available in terms of choirs.
Amazona.de
The sound of this library is excellent, as I’ve come to expect from Strezov Sampling’s recordings. Add to that an extremely useful syllabuilder interface that easily expands upon the possibilities inherent to no more than eight syllables, and the library becomes hard to resist. It makes for a great stand-alone male choir that is capable of a large range of dynamics, registers, and phrase capabilities, as well as a wonderful complement to the low end of your existing choir libraries." 9.7 / 10
Tobi Weiss
Film and Game Composers
None of the other choir libraries out there have even a comparable amount of features and controls like Wotan. It's really impressive how much you can do with only 8 syllables. In addition to that the out-of-the-box sound simply blew me away in terms of realism.
Tim Heinrich
Recording.de
Once again, Strezov Sampling has exceeded expectations with this impressive new library! Wotan is fantastic; working both by itself and in conjunction with other choir libraries. The sound quality, realism, controls, and ease-of-use have made it a permanent addition to my template. From epic to evil to haunting to solemn, it is sure to find a spot in your tracks as well.
Designing Music Now
Strezov Sampling's newest library, Wotan, is truly a next generation choir library. It features a new approach to building syllables that not only works for a good choral sound, but also gives you complete control over the individual samples. Wotan's 20 piece Male choir sounds massive and powerful on the loud end and delicate and strong on the softer side. Wotan offers a new sound that isn't available on the market and will be one tool I know I can get consistent results with.
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