Soundiron releases Mercury Micro - Compact Symphonic Boys' Choir for Kontakt

27th January 2017 - KVR Audio News

Soundiron has released Mercury Micro, the compact starter edition of the Mercury Symphonic Boys' Choir library. This slice of a traditional English boy's choral ensemble library includes piano and forte versions of the sustaining and staccato articulations of two important vowels: "Ah" and "Oo." It also includes two sustaining, tempo-sync-able word articulations from Christian liturgy, "Kyrie" and "Eleison."

The Mercury Boys' Choir captures the youth and purity of a full boy's choral ensemble consisting of 25 singers ages 8 to 13 with a close microphone position. Soundiron recorded the award-winning Pacific Boychoir in the same large hall that the Olympus Symphonic Choir, Apocalypse Percussion Ensemble, Montclarion Grand Piano and many other Soundiron libraries were captured. The hall gives it a bright and open sound with just the right touch of transparent natural reverberation and a stellar tone.

The library comes equipped with 3 standard instrument presets, each focusing on a category of choral articulations. The GUI includes dual-layer blending, pad mode, scripted legato, convolution reverb with 100+ custom impulses and EQ. Also included are 17 special FX presets that demonstrate the creative possibilities of this compact yet powerful library. These FX presets are exclusive to Mercury Micro and each offers a unique sonic flavor all its own.

This 303 MB library includes 209 samples and 20 nki presets with a custom user interface for the full version of Kontakt 5.5.2 and later (OS X 10.8 or later / Windows 7 or later required). All of the samples are unlocked 24-bit/48kHz WAVs that you can use in any standard WAV-compatible program or plugin you like: