Please note:
The Sonokinetic license agreement allows this product to be used to produce library or production music.
Intriguing, mysterious and authentically sung traditional jewish music
PLEASE NOTE: The Kontakt files within this multi format sample library require the full version of Kontakt 4.1. Not compatible with the FREE Kontakt Player.
"Beautifully recorded and incredibly evocative Jewish vocals that are perfect for film and media composers or producers looking to add an ethnic edge." - Music Tech (Rating 9/10)
"Though it might seem incredibly niche, the high quality and range of sounds provided mean that it could slip into any genre from ambient to house." - Computer Music (Rating 9/10)
Bringing you the sound of an ancient country...
For the first time in sampling history, Sonokinetic is proud to present this unique and one of a kind female vocals sample library. FIlled with intriguing, mysterious and authentically sung traditional jewish music. Performed by one of the greatest contemporary classical Jewish singers of our time; Hadass Pal Yarden. Her musical talents, professional and impressive sound and specifically specialized musical style makes these captured performances stand out from any other previous Sonokinetic projects.
This library offers you chants, improvisations, poems and songs in one of the numerous classical Jewish traditional styles namely; “Sephardic” music. This first volume of “Voices of Israel” also includes improvisations on western harmonics which complements music written in western musical root harmonics, which makes this library very flexible and versatile to implement into your musical projects.
The proven vocal sampling concept of Sonokinetic’s vocal sampling libraries continues with another dedicated ethnic vocal collection. Combining non-western vocalic musical elements into a tool for serious professional music productions. To give your production the extra authenticity that’ll make it unique and stand out in realism and originality.
1300+ vocal elements in various keys and speeds will provide you with a pallet that’s not matched in many other vocal sample libraries. The intuitive use of the Native Instruments Kontakt engine guarantees you countless numbers of variations by combining melodic patterns, sung melodies accessible in several phrases, vocal effects, spoken words and more Jewish Sephardic origin styled samples.
Many of the Songs, poems and texts performed by Hadass have never before been recorded and we translated them into a great ‘tool’ for composers. With this, Sonokinetic establishes another large and great collection of non-western vocal music based on art music and ancient musical origins.
We always try to push the limit to capture a generic soundscape with a wide selection of user-friendly, easy to use sample collections.
Chants & Songs in all keys, voice effects; whispered and spoken texts (ancient Jewish poems). Chants are wordless melody lines, Songs contain words
Western Improvisations: with these special patches we’ve tried to blend the Sephardic style melody to fit western harmonics. For quick scoring and adding creative artistic features to your music. Not all keys are available due to the vocal pitch limitation.
Songs, chants and improvisation patches have programmed key switches linked to the harmony root, with corresponding interface views. Root harmony and scales are presented for each key zone.
"Vocal FX”, an exclusive one of a kind original recording of different Sephardic style vocal effects. These patches are the real deal. Sonokinetic is proud to present these as a special feature
Various ‘instant endings’ have been programmed to separate keys in each instrument, to give you the possibility to end a phrase whenever you want, however you want.
Time stretching function (TS); all patches are available with pitch wheel function to slow down and speed up the phrases and melody lines.
4 impulse responses: 24 bit wave format. 3 Synagogues and one large dome.
Interface installers for Mac, PC and manual instructions.
Royalty and copyright free content license.
License and Usage Agreement for “Voices Of Israel”
Historical and Musical Origins , manual (pdf). A musical theory about Sephardic Jesish music specified to the style used in “Voices Of Israel”.
English translations for all sung and spoken texts within “Voices of Israel”. These texts have never been translated. This is a genuine first. And we’re proud to present them as an extra feature.
Artwork : “Voices Of Israel” dvd cover. Designed by Pavel Fuksa
Format:
All files in 96 kHz
24 Bit Wave
Programmed from Kontakt 4.1 and up
Kontakt interface features:
Main view: keyswitches, harmonic root and BPM buttons, breathing sample (see image).
Red zones: Keys witches for root harmony keys
Green zones: Breathing sfx samples
Yellow zones: BPM (tempo) switchers. Correspond with the buttons on the interface
Blue zones: vocal samples
Cyan zones: Ending phrases
White zones: Empty zones
Patches with TS: pitch wheel modulation. Speeds up and slows down phrases Note: All recordings have been traditionally recorded without click track. These songs are unaccompanied ancient monophonic vocal ‘songs’.
First you have to select a BPM with yellow keys, and then the key with the red ones. Since the samples are grouped in BPM and in root key.
Convolution view: 4 Sonokinetic voice IR’s
All NKI patches have reverb applied to them by default. The convolution reverb can be bypassed when the amount is turned down to 0% by clicking on the left side “Wet Level” and turned down.
Impulse Response selection: by pressing the IR sphere another of the four available rooms is activated.
Available IR’s
Synagogue 1: Main Synagogue centered stereo IR
Synagogue 2: Rectangle high ceiling Synagogue centered stereo IR
Synagogue 3: Stone wall Synagogue centered stereo IR
Large Dome: Mid size dome stone & marble*
(*from the Tigris&Euphrates library)
Room Size slider: This compresses or stretches the impulse response in time. Click & drag on the right side of the sphere to adjust the blue level bar.
Wet Level: Controls the level of the original and processed signals. 0% = bypass 100% = full signal. Click & drag on the left side of the sphere to adjust the blue level bar. Amount: Controls the level of the original and processed signals. 0% = bypass 100% = full signal.
Envelop & Breath tab
With this tab models the full sample set AR. So all groups are affected by changing these setting. To keep the your custom setting please resave the patch. Next time when loaded it load the custom settings. (Consider renaming to have a backup when needed)
Attack: The time it takes the envelope to reach maximum level after triggering.
Release: The time it takes the envelope to fall from the sustain level back to zero after the key has been released.
Breath: 19 velocity mapped breath samples. Triggered by the velocity. Volume determines the output level of this sample group. Mapped under the green colored keys
Note: Jewish music theory and character is very different form western music. Due to it’s many microtones and typical tone distances used in these songs. But as a general reference we found that a lot of our minor and major keys go well with these samples. We specifically applied western tuning while recording these samples. All these harmonic references are interchangeable and can be combined to create thousands of original combinations. The full potential of this sample library is yet to be unleashed. For quick – no – nonsense recording and a perfect fit to your minor harmonics please refer to the ‘western minor improvisations’ patches.
