Diva Classical Female Soloists - Official Demo Released

[Bela D Media]

EDIT 09/14/03

The official demo has been released.

http://www.beladmedia.com/audio.html

Gotham - Hours of Darkness
Composed by Kaveh Cohen of A&E's Biography

Thank you
Bela D Media
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Hi everyone,

I was looking at my website static’s today and noticed that 68 users of these forum had found their way to some of the free Gigastudio samples I have at my site.

Very cool!

You may find them at
http://www.beladmedia.com
Legato Flute and Performance Harps

Thank you,
Francis B
Bela D media

PS. Please do not look at this as Spam ... you guys posted about me

[kevvvvv]

Thanx for the downloads, Francis

The Diva demos were nice too.

[Bela D Media]

You're welcome and thank you

[Bela D Media]

119 downloads today

Any comments?
Any thoughts on Diva?
What format do you guys use mainly?

Francis

[pough]

120

I'd not heard of you before this. Your website looks very nice, but I found it a little awkward to move around in. I'll have to go back to it to see what you're all about.

Giga works fine for me. I have Kontakt and prefer files in that format, but I'm not so into the types of instruments that you seem to be producing anyways, so you can safely ignore me.

[kevvvvv]

Bela said

Any thoughts on Diva?

It's hard to tell from the available mp3s, although they are obviously beautifully crafted.

The first piano demo sounds impressive, but is an unusual style of music ... conservatoire spooky?

The second 2 mp3s are slow tempo tunes ... but again, interesting and enjoyable. Lovely and posh sounding.

But is it all enough to buy on

When I bought Atmosphere, I had a load of demos I could keep going back to listen to, while I took a month making my mind up whether it had enough bang for my buck.

Again, when listening to Diva, I was wondering whether the girls would sound any good as a backing duet to a singer (cool ... loads of fast ooh aahs, even if not quite shoobydoo) ... but I couldn't tell from the available samples.

Going further ... like a lot of people here I buy regularly, but not necessarily to spend $150 on a v specialist item (albeit a desirable specialist item)

Take acoustic guitars ... Pro Samples do a cut-down version of the Yellow Tools Pure Guitars, a high quality sample set, which reduces the price down from $150 to £29 inc tax.

Maybe I don't get all the fancy articulations and slides, but I get a few well-crafted bread and butter acoustic guitar multi-velocity samples ... plus an option that if I upgrade to the full set, then I get the original fee deducted from the total.

I like this. It means I can take a chance and enjoy buying.

Diva is very sweet and beautiful ... but pricey for my kind of budget considering it's v specialist ... but I would buy a budget cut down pack tomorrow if only for the fun of using such an attractive sound.

Anyone else care to chip in their view on this?

Any sampler owner spends a chunk of any week wondering what to buy next, and what is affordable, and how much use it'll get, and so on.

[Bela D Media]

You really think it is over priced? I am getting emails from Giga user thanking me for not selling it for $350.00-$400.00

DIVA Ensembles (Recent addition)

Combinations of Sustained vowels with natural vibrato and moving vowels
Soloist 1 sings

q Oo ensemble
q Oh ensemble
q Ee ensemble

Soloist 2 sings

q Ah ensemble
q Mm ensemble
q Oo ensemble

Independent instruments and key switch version
Mod wheel control of mix start time

Sustained vowels
Natural vibrato and crescendo/diminuendo versions
Soloist 1 sings.

q Ah, Oh, Oo, Ee and closed lip Mm
q Close mic
q Far mic blend
q Far mic blend with release samples

Marcato vowels
Natural vibrato versions
Soloist 1 sings

q Ah, Oh and Ee
q Independent instruments and key switch version both with release samples

Soloist 2 sings
q Ah, Oo and Mm
q Independent instruments and key switch version both with release samples

Staccato vowels
Natural vibrato versions
Soloist 1 sings

q Ah, Oh and Ee
q Independent instruments and key switch version both with release samples

Soloist 2 sings
q Ah, Oo and Mm
q Independent instruments and key switch version both with release samples

Moving vowels
Natural vibrato
Soloist 1 sings

q Ah Nah Zoe / tempo 60
q Lee Mah Stah / tempo 80
q Voh Sah Loh Vah / tempo 100

Soloist 2 sings
q Loo Mah Sah / tempo 60
q Thah Nye Voh / tempo 80
q Shoh Meh Lah Foh / tempo 100
Independent instruments with mod wheel volume control and multi attack

Syllables
All sections sung by both soloists.
Independent instruments and key switch version

q Section 1: Doh Lah Pah Fah Hoo Dah Bih Queh Loo Mah Neh Who Doh
q Section 2: Voo Chah Hoh Meh Lah Fah Bih Vah Foh Sheh Dah Nah Voo
q Section 3: Bee Kah Nih Tah Feye Shee Veh Soh Gee Wah Choh Bee
q Section 4: Veh Teh Noh Gah Jee Voh Wah Toh Fee Keh Nih Too Veh

Performance Files
Soul of Spirits performed by soloist 1
q Tempo 80
q Key of E minor
q 17 performances with score provided

Mournful Cry performed by soloist 1
q Tempo 80
q Key of F# minor
q 12 performances with score provided

Curse of the Crow performed by soloist 2
q Tempo 60
q Key of G minor
q 12 performances with score provided

Diva Effects
Various effects including inhale and exhale samples
q Natural version
q Added reverb version
q Bonus sound designed version

BELA D MEDIA - SOON TO BE RELEASED
DIVA EXTENDED Featuring straight tone vowels
PHANTOM VOICE Classical Male Soloists

[Bela D Media]

NOTE:

The focal point of this 2 CD set library is a slow, haunting type vocal.
Tempo 100 and below is where the vocies will produce the best results.

Thank you
FB

[kevvvvv]

Bela

You really think it is over priced? I am getting emails from Giga user thanking me for not selling it for $350.00-$400.00

No Bela ... not overpriced ... just specialist-expensive for all the non-pros who hang out here, who regularly drop a chunk of their monthly hard-earned on more gear.

Depends how far you want to reach into the market

You have every right to be proud of your work, and I'm not trying to take any of that away from you.

I'm being nice, but straight, regarding the likes of a lot of us here

[Bela D Media]

Oooh, I see what you are saying. Yes, that makes sense.

I will be offering (at some pont) a smaller ACID version for $49.99.
Perhaps that would be more attractive to your readers?

Nonetheless, thank you for your time and everyone enjoy the free Gigs,

Really nice place you have here. One question though ....

Where's my drink?

[pough]

Where's my drink?

I took it. I'm sorry. It hasn't rained here in two months!

[Bela D Media]

LMAO!!! Oh, man .... way cool!

I'm going to like it here

[DevonB]

Oooh, I see what you are saying. Yes, that makes sense.

I will be offering (at some pont) a smaller ACID version for $49.99.
Perhaps that would be more attractive to your readers?

Nonetheless, thank you for your time and everyone enjoy the free Gigs,

Really nice place you have here. One question though ....

Where's my drink?

Well, coming from Northern Sounds where people itch to drop thousands on orchestral libraries it seems, here, people whine about a plug costing over $100, looking constantly for 'best value', and like using lots of 'freebie' plugs. I've already bought Symphony Of Voices and Voices Of The Apocalypse, so my spending threshold is a bit higher than I'd say a good chunk of folks around here.

I've listened to the demos, and while they sound lovely, I'm concerned it might be too 'signature' sounding. The price is very attractive though, and certainly tempts me, trust me. Maybe someday, but around here, it seems people are not interested in dropping the cash on VERY specialized libraries in general. I could be wrong, but that's my general impression over here.

Devon

[Bela D Media]

"On VERY specialized libraries in general"

No more so than SOV or VOTA.
Of course, $150.00 is a far cry from $499.99.

Fearing Diva to be too signature? I most respectfully disagree.
Please wait for final demos (September 5th). Once more, Diva is no more signature than the above titles that you and I both own.

[DevonB]

I'll look forward to more demos then. The current ones I haven't found that impressive compared to the 'wow factor' I got from VOTA and SOV, but they do sound good. Still worried about the 'smoothness' of switching notes and how 'unnatural' it'll sound as well, one of the downfalls I've found to working with the other libaries as well.

As for 'signature', the sound itself is 2 females, that's it. SOV and VOTA, have a LOT more than 2 vocalists (meaning, if I use the low male notes on VOTA, it sounds like monks, but I use the upper range of male, it sounds like operatic singers). I'd prefer myself to have more soloists with different tonal characteristics, to give me a variety, and that's what it looks like you're going to be offering soon, yes?

Devon