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The women sound more natural than the men at high dynamics. I’m not sure if the recordings are slightly “hyped” with EQ or compression, but the upper midrange is very strong, especially in the male choirs at high dynamics where it sounds like it might even be saturated. The sound is definitely not traditionally classical – even with a concert hall reverb, the choir sounds more Jim Steinman than J.S. Small, intimate choirs sounding like a half dozen of backup singers are not something Olympus is about. Individual singers are generally not audible as such, except on the highest notes sampled for each section when the strongest singers begin to stick out. Even one of the divisi sections is more than a dozen people, and even at the lowest dynamics, there’s a sense of size. And if it instead seems like overkill, there’s the 403 MB Olympus Micro with two vowels in sustain and staccato.
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If you are the kind of user for whom this is not enough, Soundiron also has the full product these Elements are selected from – the 44.6 GB Olympus Symphonic Choir which has true legato for all vowels, word-building capability, close and far microphones, plus soloists. It might not be all the choir you’d need for film scores or mocking up chorales with all the lyrics, but it seems right for most of those times you’d want a choir in a lot of different contexts, from metal to hip-hop and game soundtracks. The sampled dynamics range from pp to ff. Everything is close-miked – that’s close by choir standards, of course, not as dry as a close-miked snare drum. There are also whispers, drones, atmospheres and choral effects. These are available in sustain, staccato, and marcato articulations, with the addition of true sampled legato for “ah” and “oo” up to an octave. What you get is basically eight vowels – or, maybe, seven vowels plus the “mm” consonant. The library samples a large choir of men and women, for a total of 63 choir members.
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Soundiron Olympus Elements is an epic sampled choir for NI Kontakt and Kontakt Player which aims to provide the most useful choral sounds in a reasonably compact 2.52 GB package.