steinberg Olympus Choir Elements User Guide

steinberg Olympus Choir Elements User Guide

INSTRUCTION

We’re proud to welcome you to our Olympus Choir Elements for Steinberg’s HALion family of products. This tier in our line of Olympus Choir products offers everything a composer might need from a symphonic choir library at an affordable price. It also functions as an even larger glimpse at what our Olympus Symphonic Choral Collection offers. Our goal with Olympus Elements was to create an intermediate level library, one that has all the “meat and potatoes” our Olympus line offers: all the vowels we offer as well as a selection of True Legato sustains. Olympus Choir Elemnts now includes eight standard vowel sustains, staccatos, and marcatos – “Ah,” “Ee,” “Eh,” “Ei,” “Ih,”

“Mm,” “Oh,” and “Oo” – including both soft “piano” and strong fortissimo dynamics where applicable, sung by the full ensemble over the full SATB range.

This new version for HALion has been engineered from the ground up to make full use of the platform. We’ve improved the sustains and staccatos, re- balanced volume levels, added some brand new custom FX presets, and overhauled the user interface.

Whether you’ve been curious about our full Olympus Symphonic Choir and are just looking for an affordable choir library that covers all of the basics, Olympus Choir Elements is the perfect choice for you.

More About the full version of Olympus…

We captured our Olympus Symphonic Choir by assembling 63 hand-picked singers from the SF Choral Society, Volti and the SF Symphony Chorus, under the direction of maestro Robert Geary. We recorded in a large, acoustically optimal Aframe chapel hidden in the wooded canyons of historic Montclair, in the San Francisco Bay Area. We used the same location for our Mercury Symphonic Boys’ Choir, Apocalypse Percussion Ensemble and a number of other classic Soundiron instruments and orchestral libraries. We meticulously recorded over 90 solid hours of male (“Mars”) and female (“Venus”) divisi ensembles and solo SATB articulations, combining traditional deep sampling methods with our own specialized techniques and intuition to deliver the most capable and comprehensive symphonic choral library available anywhere in the world. Olympus Choir Micro focuses on the main close microphone position, with men and women recorded in separate sections.

If you’re curious about learning more about the full version of our Olympus Symphonic Collection, visit us at www.soundiron.com/olympus

The “Choir for Everyone” now for HALion

• 44 powerful HALion programs
• Eight dynamic vowels — Ah, Ee, Eh, Ei, Ih, Mm, Oh & Oo
• Two True Legato vowels — Ah & Oo
• Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
• 2,697 Samples
• 2.35 GB Installed
• 24-bit, 48 kHz audio with lossless compression.
• Flexible and intuitive user interface controls

Note: HALion Sonic SE 3.2.20 or the full version of HALion (6.2.20 or later) is required to use this product. Windows 7 (or later) or OSX 10.9 (or later) is required.

System Requirements

This library requires Steinberg’s HALion Sonic SE 3.2.20 or later, or the full version of HALion 6.2.20 or later. The sample files are compressed to Steinberg’s lossless 48kHz and 24 bit audio format. Please read all instrument specs and software requirements before purchasing this or any other Soundiron products. You must have at least Windows version 7 or later, or Apple OSX 10.10 or later.

Control Parameter Automation

Most knobs, buttons and sliders in this library can be automated by midi continuous controller or by using host automation envelopes in your DAW. To assign any interactive control knob, button or the Sound Selection Menu to a midi CC, you can right-click the control (command-click on OSX) and select the “Learn CC” button that appears. Then move your desired midi hardware control to link it.

MAIN CONTROLS

LAYER CONTROLS

LAYER TOGGLE
Toggles the Layer On and Off. If turned off the corresponding Layer will not produce any sound.

ARTICULATION DROPDOWN MENU
This dropdown menu is used to select the current articulation for the respective Layer.

SWELL (CC79 & 80)
This knob controls the dynamic volume of the corresponding Layer.

PAN
This knob adjusts the stereo panorama of the corresponding Layer.

ATTACK
This knob controls the initial note attack time of the correspondingLayer. Low values are quick, but higher values can be used to sweep up in volume over a longer period of time.

OFFSET
This knob controls the sample start offset of the corresponding Layer. Turning the knob up causes the sample playback to start further the sample.

RELEASE
This knob controls the release fade time of the corresponding Layer. This controls the amount of time it takes for the sound to reach silence once a note is released.

REL VOL
This option adjusts the volume of release samples only.

DYNAMICS
This slider adjusts how p-F dynamics are controlled between note velocity and MIDI CC. When all the way to the left, only velocity controls dynamic change. When all the way to the right, it is fully controlled by the “Swell” knob or MIDI CCs 79 and 80.

BLEND
This slider, when Blend is turned on, adjusts the crossfade between the two Layers.

BLEND TOGGLE
This button toggles On/Off layer blending. When Off, both Layers will sound at the same time, on top of one another. When On, the Blend slider can be used to morph between the two Layers.

CENTER CONTROLS
A variety of controls are accessible in the center column that allow further tweaks to the instrument. See the next page for details.

LEGATO 1 TOGGLE
Turns the simulated legato On/Off for the Men layer.

LEGATO 2 TOGGLE
Turns the simulated legato On/Off for the Women layer.

TIME
These knobs control the Speed of the legato transition for each layer. Slower values mean a longer crossfade during the transition.

BEND
These knobs add and adjust a simulated pitch bend to the legato transition for each layer. Doesn’t apply to “True Legato” articulations.

VIBRATO OPTIONS

VIBRATO 1 TOGGLE
Turns simulated vibrato on for the Men layer.

VIBRATO 2 TOGGLE
Turns simulated vibrato on for the Women layer.

LEVEL
These knobs control the depth and spped of vibrato, or the pitch/volume modulation. At low values this creates a subtle, slow vibrato, while increasing makes it more pronounced and faster.

KEYS OPTIONS

MEN LOW
This value represents the lower bound for the playable range of the Men layer. Using this one can get slightly extended note ranges.

MEN HIGH
This value represents the high bound for the playable range of the Men layer. Using this one can get slightly extended note ranges.

WOMEN LOW
This value represents the lower bound for the playable range of the Women layer. Using this one can get slightly extended note ranges.

WOMEN HIGH
This value represents the high bound for the playable range of the Women layer. Using this one can get slightly extended note ranges.

LICENSE AGREEMENT
By installing this product, you the Customer accept the following product terms.

LICENSE GRANT
The license for this product is granted only to a single individual user. A retail license must be purchased from Soundiron or its authorizedresellers prior to use. No unlicensed use is permitted. All sounds, samples, programming, images, scripting, designs and text contained in this product are copyrights of Soundiron, LLC. This software is licensed, but not sold, to

Customer by Soundiron, for commercial and noncommercial use in music, sound- effect creation, audio/video post-production, performance, broadcast or similar finished content-creation and production use. Individual license holders are permitted to install this library on multiple computers or other equipment only if they are the sole owner and only user of all equipment this software is installed or used on.

Soundiron LLC allows Customer to use any of the sounds and samples in library(s) that Customer has purchased for the creation and production ofcommercial recordings, music, sound design, post production, or other content creation without paying any additional license fees or providing source attribution to Soundiron. This license expressly forbids any unauthorized inclusion of any raw or unmixed content contained within this product into any other commercial or noncommercial sample instrument, sound effect library, synthesizer sound bank, or loop or effect library of any kind, without our express prior written consent.

This license also forbids any unauthorized transfer, resale or any other form of re-distribution of this product, or its constituent sounds or code, through any means, including but not limited to re -sampling, reverse engineering, decompiling, remixing, processing, isolating, or embedding into software or hardware  of any kind, except where fully rendered and integrated into the finished soundtrack or audio mix of an audio, visual or interactive multimedia production, broadcast, live performance or finished work of sound design,with a running time no less than 8 seconds in total length. Licenses cannot be transferred or sold to another entity without specific prior written consent of Soundiron LLC.

RIGHTS
Soundiron retains full copyright privileges and complete ownership of all recorded sounds, instrument programming, documentation and musical performances included within this product. All past and future versions of this product, including any versions published or distributed by any other entity are fully bound and covered by the terms of this agreement.

REFUNDS
Downloaded libraries can’t be returned, so we do not provide refunds or exchanges. Be aware that as soon as the product has been downloaded from our servers or physically sent to the Customer, it can not be returned, exchanged or refunded.

RESPONSIBILITY
Using this product and any supplied software is at the Customer’s own risk. Soundiron LLC holds no responsibility for any direct or indirect loss, harm or damage of any kind arising from any form of use of this product.

TERMS
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VIOLATION
Soundiron LLC reserves the right to prosecutepiracy and defend its copyrighted works to the fullest extent of US and International civil and criminal law.

THANK YOU!

Soundiron is a virtual instrument and sound library developer founded in 2011. The studio is based in the San Francisco Bay area, owned and operated by a dedicated team of sound artists and programmers.
We are driven every day to capture all of the sonic flavors this world has to offer and bring them to you as truly playable and inspiring musical tools. Each library is crafted to deliver profound realism, complete flexibility, exquisite detail and unrivaled acoustic quality. If you enjoy this creation, we hope you’ll check out some of our other awesome sound libraries. If you have any questions or need anything at all, just let us know. We’re always happy to hear from you at [email protected]!

Thanks from the whole Soundiron team!

CREDITS

Recording Engineers
Mike Peaslee, Gregg Stephens, Chris Marshall Sound Designers

Chris Marshall, Nathan Boler
Scripting, Programming and Instrument Design De Wet van der Spuy, Chris Marshall

UI Design & Artwork
Chris Marshall, Koke Nunez , Spencer Nunamaker

Documentation
Chris Marshall

All programming, scripting, samples, images and text © Soundiron 2019. All Rights Reserved.
Soundiron is a Registered Trademark of Soundiron LLC.

References

• Soundiron Virtual Instruments - Where the world is your orchestra!
• Soundiron Olympus Symphonic Choir - Kontakt NKS (VST, AU, AAX)

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