Known for her work with Zwan, Smashing Pumpkins and numerous collaborations and solo projects, Linda Strawberry's voice has a smoky, intensely dynamic and truly expressive quality that is perfect for everything from cinematic scoring, indie rock and EDM, to dreampop, industrial and pan-ethnic composition. Her rich, mysterious and passionate voice and distinctive emotional performance style burn through the mix. This 5.4 GB collection features deeply multi-sampled chromatic content, along with thousands of customizable live melodic phrases. It offers smooth long-form True Legato, sustaining and staccato vowels, a wide variety of vocal effects, ambiences and unparallelled user control. Voice of Gaia: Strawberry is designed for professional composers, producers and songwriters and may just be our most flexible and adaptive female solo vocal instrument yet.
We captured True Legato vowel sustains for the universal Ah vowel, using an exhaustive long-form sampling method for unparalleled realism, with 3-voice polyphony. You'll also find classic vowel sustains and staccatos for Ah, Oh, Oo and Mm sounds, spanning well over two octaves, with total user control over every detail. You can choose between infinitely looping (w/release) and natural decay modes for each sustaining note, with 3-voice polyphonic support. The Ah and Oh sustain and staccato vowels also include both piano and forte dynamics.
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We then recorded thousands of improvised melodic vowel and invented language-based micro-phrases at root tempos of 80, 100, 120 and 140 BPM, and root keys of A#, C, D, E, F# and G#. With instant transposition, tempo locking, time stretching and phrase shaping, you can get more mileage from every sample, with more freedom to create. Our exclusive fully interactive phrase sequencer and integrated waveform display lets you edit and save the interactive sample start and end markers for each step, making them a breeze to work with. Click Here for the pdf user guide.
We've also included vocal effects, like whispered sustains and staccatos, laughing, performance breaths and breathing, sfx and more. Finally, we took the source material and contorted it into a full set of ambiences, atmospheric and pad instruments. You'll also find our intuitive FX Rack panel, with chorus, delay, distortion, compression, EQ, amp/speaker simulation and convolution reverb, featuring 70 of our popular custom rooms, halls, cathedrals and unique fx impulses.
Linda was recorded in a dry studio with two types of exquisite Neumann microphones and pristine Sound Devices preamps to capture every subtle detail and nuance of her voice. You can customize each mic's mix and balance, or load/unload each mic channel. We've spared no detail in our quest to bring you our most flexible, adaptive and inspiring female solo vocal collection yet. It's priced at $139. Click Here for more info.
