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Hi my name is George and I am executive producer behind the "Strezov Sampling" sample libraries.

We are really excited to announce our newest product - an ethnic Bulgarian choir called 'Rhodope: Ethnic Bulgarian Choir', that we have been working on for an year now together with Alex Koev - a composer and programmer from Varna, Bulgaria.

Rhodope: Ethnic Bulgarian Choir gives you the ability to write your own words and sentences via the new SYLLABUILDER engine. It also features Polyphonic legato, controllable release samples, fluid playability mode that is suitable for live playing, keyswitching, save/load function, initializing and, most importantly, the special timbre of the ethnic Bulgarian choir!

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UPDATE: 23/07/2014
Due to many requests, we decided to give you a free demo patch of Rhodope!
:phones:

RHODOPE FREE DEMO

The demo patch is fully functional but limited to:

Playing range: C4 - G4 (C4 = middle C)
Vowels: Ah, Ee, Oh
Consonants: C, L, S, CH

All letters can be selected in Syllabuilder dashboard but the letters presented with dark gray color will not produce any sound.
Saved presets are compatible with the full version of the library.

Just as reminder: If you want to make 'staccato' like passages (with longer pause between notes/chords) please use NON-LEGATO mode. it is made for this purpose and begining of the words (i.e. attacks) will sound more naturally in this mode.

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Rhodope is now released! You can grab your copy for the introductory price of $149 till July 1st.

The normal price of Rhodope: Ethnic Bulgarian Choir is $200, so you still have the possibility to get the library with a 25% discount ($149)!

RHODOPE: ETHNIC BULGARIAN CHOIR

FEATURES
* 10 singers
* range of E3-D5 (C4 = middle C)
* the powerful SYLLABUILDER engine (full word building engine) allows you to write words that will be 'sung' by the virtual choir
* The Syllabuilder gives you the ideal balance between the detailed control over the words and the fast workflow
* ability to Save and Load presets; cross-compatible with future versions.
* ability to manually edit each of the consonants or vowel sounds in Syllabuilder text
* Polyphonic legato
* The ability to overlap different vowels/consonants in a single midi track - one voice holding on “Ah” (for instance), while the other voices still progressing throughout the lyrics.
* Easy to use either live or in your DAW
* Intuitive HELP incorporated in the Kontakt patch
* Various other scripts that will help you in your workflow

AUDIO DEMOS
https://soundcloud.com/strezov-sampling ... rian-choir

VIDEOS

A new walkthrough video which shows you how to create a vocal track from scratch in 30 minutes. (technically it's less, because I do speak too much! ;) )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWOASnhCwpY

You can see me explaining how I did the choir part on the track "Firebird" in this walkthrough video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLeyc5yEXu4

I've explained the concept behind SyllaBUILDER and the way it works in this video - check it out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIZ9OpJXXAQ

Kindest regards,
George and Alex
Last edited by Strezov on Wed Jul 23, 2014 10:41 am, edited 16 times in total.

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Hello everyone. Pleased to share with you this demo of traditional Bulgarian song "Kaval sviri" that we crated a few days ago.
Pitch-wheel was used to bring the key with 1/4 higher and also some Valhalla vintage verb in order to match the original recording.

Here is the original that we used for reference performed by "Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwxCaJCwgr0

Hope you guys enjoy this!

https://soundcloud.com/strezov-sampling ... -alex-koev
Last edited by Strezov on Thu Jun 12, 2014 3:31 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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Hello everyone,
Here's a track that I created using Rhodope. The main power behind Rhodope is the syllabic singing (singing in which each syllable of text is matched to a single note.)

However I've created a few melodic lines at the beginning showing that Rhodope can be used for this purpose as well.

FIREBIRD
https://soundcloud.com/strezov-sampling ... odope-demo

Best,
George
Last edited by Strezov on Thu Jun 12, 2014 3:31 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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Hello everyone. Here's a new demo by Simon Porter which uses all the vowels of Rhodope in a more contemporary genre. We are happy to say that the release will be in the next few days!

Rhodes by Simon Porter
https://soundcloud.com/strezov-sampling ... mon-porter

Stay tuned!
Last edited by Strezov on Fri Jun 27, 2014 8:31 am, edited 1 time in total.

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Hello everyone,
Rhodope is now released! You can grab your copy for the introductory price of $149 till Monday 23rd.

RHODOPE: ETHNIC BULGARIAN CHOIR

FEATURES
* 10 singers
* range of E3-D5 (C4 = middle C)
* the powerful SYLLABUILDER engine (full word building engine) allows you to write words that will be 'sung' by the virtual choir
* The Syllabuilder gives you the ideal balance between the detailed control over the words and the fast workflow
* ability to Save and Load presets; cross-compatible with future versions.
* ability to manually edit each of the consonants or vowel sounds in Syllabuilder text
* Polyphonic legato
* The ability to overlap different vowels/consonants in a single midi track - one voice holding on “Ah” (for instance), while the other voices still progressing throughout the lyrics.
* Easy to use either live or in your DAW
* Intuitive HELP incorporated in the Kontakt patch
* Various other scripts that will help you in your workflow

We also want to share another audio demo composed by Dirk Ehlert.
https://soundcloud.com/strezov-sampling ... irk-ehlert

Let us know what you think about the library!

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A new demo created by Abel Vegas:

The Tracians by Abel Vegas
https://soundcloud.com/strezov-sampling ... abel-vegas

You have until Monday to get Rhodope for the introductory price of $149!
Click here for more info.

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Hello once again!

Good news - we received so much emails and messages asking us to increase the introductory price that we decided to expand it till July 1st! The normal price of Rhodope: Ethnic Bulgarian Choir is $200, so you still have the possibility to get the library with a 25% discount ($149)!

And to add to this, we give you this walkthrough video which shows you how to create a vocal track from scratch in 30 minutes. (technically it's less, because I do speak too much! ;) )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWOASnhCwpY

Till this moment we haven't received a single bug report from our beta testers and clients, but nevertheless we started working on a 1.1 version.
Our goal is to improve the sound of the short consonants as well as to add additional sample material (like "Ya", "Yu", etc.).
In the current version of the library short consonants can be controlled only by Volume in the advanced options panel; the Attack and Release sliders in this panel do not control the short consonants right now because everything connected to them is already fixed (excluding Volume of course).
However, we decided to 'unlock' the Attack and Release for the short consonants in the upcoming 1.1 (a prototype of which I'm using in the video above).

There are also a few other useful features which will be announced soon.

If you find any bugs or simply have feedback or suggestions - do not hesitate to contact us!

Best, George and Alex

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We're happy to show you yet another demo for "Rhodope", this time by Marie-Anne Fischer.

Dust For Plums by Marie-Anne Fischer
https://soundcloud.com/strezov-sampling ... ne-fischer

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Here's a new demo by Henri Vartio, using Rhodope!

Song for the Mountains by Henri Vartio
https://soundcloud.com/strezov-sampling ... nri-vartio

Best,
George.

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Due to many requests, we decided to give you a free demo patch of Rhodope! :phones:

The demo patch is fully functional but limited to:

Playing range: C4 - G4 (C4 = middle C)
Vowels: Ah, Ee, Oh
Consonants: C, L, S, CH

All letters can be selected in Syllabuilder dashboard but the letters presented with dark gray color will not produce any sound.
Saved presets are compatible with the full version of the library.

Just as reminder: If you want to make 'staccato' like passages (with longer pause between notes/chords) please use NON-LEGATO mode. it is made for this purpose and begining of the words (i.e. attacks) will sound more naturally in this mode.

RHODOPE FREE DEMO

Kindest regards,
George and Alex

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