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African Vocal Virtual Instrument for Kontakt Player
Kwaya - African Voices by Eduardo Tarilonte
Kwaya is an unrivalled choir library offering Format-AUthentic African voices and chants. With Aba Taano from Uganda, Eduardo Tarilonte has found the perfect choir for this long and intensely prepared project.
Kwaya is an ideal choice for every producer wanting to use distinctive and expressive African chants and vocals in their works. Kwaya stands for incomparable inspiration paired with unbeatable versatility – no matter if you work on movie or television soundtracks, thematic documentations, musical compositions, atmospheric ambient themes or tribal-dance-tracks.
Kwaya allows you to create individual vocal lines and choirs by arranging syllables in different pitches as well as voice effects with the typical sound of African vocalists.
The awarded Aba Taano choir consists of four male and two female vocalists which have been recorded separately for this library in Kontakt 5 Player format, allowing you to create individual vocal-ensembles to your specific needs. Being able to freely set the level and pan-positions for each voice, you are given full control over the sound of the choir, resulting in the highest possible versatility.
40 different syllables have been recorded for each singer. These can be switched exactly in time by using keyswitches. By using five “True Legato Vowels” (a, e, i, o, u), these syllables can be combined in a most natural way. In addition, there is an extra “mm” articulation being unmistakably typical for East- and Central-African chants.
All syllables can be played as solo voices or within an ensemble. Here, you may choose between short and longer articulations for the syllables. For the short syllables, in particular, the speed of each individual syllable can be fine-adjusted in the phrase arranger.
Although Kwaya is founded upon over 10,000 samples and 7 GB of data (lossless compressed to 5 GB), it is really straight-forward and easy to use. The library offers a set of 20 different phrases which eight syllables each. These can be changed using the keyswitch function and edited in the phrase arranger. Here, you can chose between 40 different syllables, five vowels and the “mm” articulation. After having selected the syllables, you just need to decide between short and long articulations. There is full NKS support for Native Instruments’ Komplete Kontrol controller-keyboards.
To add special highlights to the vocal arrangements, a comprehensive collection of over 700 vocal effects have been that can be played as phrases along to the syllables of the choir.
Finally, Kwaya also offers a choice of soundscapes with atmospheres ranging from harmonic to sinister.
The recordings of Kwaya took place in the Spanish Eldana Studio, where Eduardo Tarilonte already worked on different instruments for ERA II. This small studio offers wonderful acoustics and excellent technical equipment. The singers of Aba Taanowere recorded via an API preamp using a Kahayan U47. Quality wise, this adds that certain something to the library.
Eduardo Tarilonte then carefully selected the best and most harmonic coherent tones out of the multitude of recordings. BecFormat-AUse of the sensitive recording process and the excellence of the signal chain, the voices could almost be left unaltered to deliver most natural sounding results. Consequently, the sound sources give you free choices to process and edit in order to embed the voices of Kwaya into your productions.
Kwaya offers:
- 4 male solo voices
- 2 female solo voices
- 5 different true African style legatos (a, e, i, o, u)
- "Mmmh articulation"
- A powerful Phrase-Arranger with 20 phrases, 8 syllables each*
- 40 words can be combined with true legato playing while the corresponding vowel is Format-AUtomatically selected
- more than 700 voice effects*.
- 16 soundscapes,
- 10.000+ samples (mono, 44kHz, 24 bit), Library Size 7 GB uncompressed and 4.5 GB compressed
- Free Kontakt Player included (Version 5.5 or higher required)
* All syllables are fantasy. Just some of the poems and vocal fx are in Ugandan language
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