Tonehammer Forgotten Voices Cait

Singer Cait McWhir, originally hailing from Ireland, draws her inspiration from almost 20 years of exploration with indian, balkan, middle-eastern & celtic vocal styles. She has an incredible versatility allowing her to freely cross between conventional folklore to ancient Sanskrit chants, Vedic mantras to free improvisation in self made languages.

The library is constructed from over a thousand different vocal phrases covering over 15 hours of recording material. The phrases are divided into a variety of categories varying from some of the oldest songs known to man from the ancient Sanskrit chants to free improvisational phrases. The library has specific patches such as Balkan, Lullaby, Sanskrit Chants, Witch Chants and so forth. In addition some phrases in the library were recorded 2-3 times, which allows for a more broad type of vocal sound by layering the same phrase two or three times. We specifically used those in demo 3 and 4 (see below).

The library follows programming and editing techniques introduced in our Forgotten Voices: Francesca library.The programming allows user to sculpt- and morph phrases by adjusting the mod-wheel and pitch bender. The mod-wheel controls the sample starting point, so users can trigger off-set anywhere they want in the phrases. The pitch bender allows you to time-stretch/compress the phrase. Special key-switching also allows you to adjust to root pitch of all phrases in a patch by up to +/- 3 semitones. The combination between sample off-set control, root pitch control and time-stretch/compression allows users to seamlessly morph different phrases together, which brings endless possibilities for creating new phrases.

In addition Cait contains a bonus set of over 40 unique vocal ambiences made by Steven Tavaglione (Instrumentalist and Sound Designer; Wall-E, American Beauty, CSI, Supernatural and 100s other movies/shows/games). All the ambiences are made from Cait source material, so they seamlessly blend with her voice and are amazing for instant scoring.

Most core vocal phrase and ambient instrument patches are now also available in the EXS24 format, although time-stretching and sample offset features are not supported.

Note: All demos (see below) are played live using one vocal ambience and one set of vocals pr. demo, so they literally took 3-5 minutes to compose. So what you hear is what you get.

Articulations include: 

• Improvisational phrases in self-made language(s) divided into several categories
• Sanskrit & Vedic Chants
• Persian / Middle Eastern inspired phrases
• Balkan inspired phrases
• Gaelic/Celtic inspired phrases
• Devotional phrases
• Romantic phrases
• Hopeful chanting
• Frantic and Mournful chanting
• High pitched (airy / girly) chanting
• Rhythmic chanting
• Lullaby’s
• Witch Incantations
• Vocal percussion FX (ex. vocal shakers, clacks, click, chhh etc)
• Bonus: 43 Vocal ambient banks by Steven Tavaglione

• Intelligent editing and programming (off-set, time-stretch and root pitch control)
• Extensive read me (.pdf)  install, patch and hint documentation
• Listen exclusive interview w/ Cait McWhir / Vocalist
• 49 instrument patches, 2.485 samples, 1.81 GB installed, 806 MB .rar download
• Format(s): Kontakt 2, EXS24 and .wav
• Note: Native Instruments Kontakt 2.2.4 / 3 / 4 full stand-alone retail versions required for Kontakt patches.
• The Free "Kontakt Player" does not support this library.

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