BELA D MEDIA IS PROUD TO RELEASE THE GIOVANI EDITION
Bela D Media invites you to discover an exciting and significant development in the world of sampled voice. The Giovani Edition is the first truly dedicated children’s choir library determined to strike a chord with musicians ranging from the semi-pro to the most seasoned professional. Bela D Media has faithfully captured the glory of an authentic youth choir complete with 24-bit traditional church ambience.
The Giovani Edition effortlessly produces a sincere, natural tonality alive with essential human characteristics.
Enlisting the talents of a professional 32-piece youth choir, the Giovani Edition achieves a sampling first by incorporating both ensemble and chamber sized vocal sections, finally enabling the correct composition of choral parts using a sample library. In addition, Bela D Media is the first to acknowledge and sample a complete girls’ choir.
16 vocalists Boychoir ensemble
16 vocalists Girlchoir ensemble
4 vocalists Boychoir chamber
4 vocalists Girlchoir chamber
Basic Overview 1
Sustained vowels
Staccato vowels
Moving vowels
Latin phrases
Detached Latin and custom phrasing
Film inspired choral pads
Creative combinations of patches and commands
Boychoir vocal effects – natural and sound designed versions
Girlchoir vocal effects – natural and sound designed versions
More
Basic Overview 2
Near and far church ambient 24-bit samples
Chromatically sampled
Non-glottal attack
Straight Tone
Non-looped
loops created by Steve Howell of Hollow Sun
Release Triggered
Controlled vocal air (dark to bright)
Cross Fades
Vocal and Legato Control Software
Attack Control
Sampled Latin
Agnus Dei
Benedictus
Dies Irae
Veritas Domini
Morte Aeterna
Peccata Mundi
Requiem Aeternam
Vocal Control – Simplicity equates to power
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Accompanying the Giovani Edition, Bela D Media is proud to introduce Vocal Control, a unique and proprietary software utility, custom designed to enable composers to build and play sentence-like phrases both quickly and intuitively. With Vocal Control, the construction and performance of melodies and chordal accompaniments consisting of complex words and phrases is literally only a few mouse clicks away.
Vocal Control frees Giovani owners to combine complete or partial words from a pool of authentic Latin vocal performances, as well as a series of custom moving vowel performances. A word or phrase entered into Vocal Control may consist of as many as 64 unique elements or as few as a one or two syllables. Once a word or phrase is inputted into a Vocal Control phrase group, it can be played in real time with zero latency in virtually any tempo, any key and any melody.
The utility provides up to four ‘phrases’ simultaneously, with the option to link, cycle and switch between phrases as desired. Easily accessible, dedicated ‘Hot Keys’ are assigned to the real time control of features such as phrase selection, phrase cycling, word element lock and legato styles, allowing users a wide range of ‘live’ performance options.
The results of this interaction between the performer and Vocal Control can be recorded directly into any local or remote sequencer for instantaneous playback. Bela D Media is certain that Giovani owners will find Vocal Control a deceptively addictive addition to their arsenal of sample library tools.
Legato Control – Stay Connected
Incorporated into Vocal Control is Bela D Media's new Legato Tool, a combination of software coding and sampler programming which routes data to either legato or non-legato patches in real time with zero latency depending on the software's analysis of the player's performance from moment to moment. Legato slurs up/down make for realistic results.
The Legato Tool can operate in one of three modes, depending on the performer's preference:
1. Fingered Legato, which works in a similar fashion to the fingered portamento mode (legato patches are chosen if a new note is played before a previous note has been released).
2. Momentary Legato. Standard patches are chosen unless the momentary legato hotkey (C2) is held down. While this key is held down, the software scans the performance and chooses appropriate legato patches.
3. Timed Legato. The performer can specify a 'time window' after a note's release, within which any new notes played will be with appropriate legato patches. Notes played outside the time window will be directed to standard patches.
As with Vocal Control's phrase generator, the operation of the legato tool is designed as far as possible to be invisible to the performer.
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Updated Audio Demos
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Downloads and Requests
Illustrative Tour of Vocal Control
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Files and Folders Tour
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PMI Promotional Discount
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Request the complete Giovani Edition Users Guide
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The Giovani Edition - 2 DVD Collection
MSRP $399.99
Special Savings Promotional Discount
$374.99 Until July 14, 2005
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This offer is exclusive and may not be combined with any other discounts, savings or coupons. Kontakt native version now shipping!
GS3/HALion summer 2005 with special offer repeated.
And Heaven does what it says on the tin 
I forgot to check the forum. Thank you for the heads up Frank. I am a little critical of the price, but let me make it clear what an amazing job you guys did. Hurry up and do solo boys and girls/full choir next! 