Desert Voice

• Base samples:  1 male voice. Deser Voice / Iraqi / Egypgian Arabian styled sound.
• 33 instruments , 3 Multi instruments for Kontakt 4.2.4 with up to 5 tab screens – Main View, Convolution, Envelope, Scale Indicator and a credits tab

1. Main view with key indicator, BPM switches and thematic design
2. Convolution reverb applied to all patches. 5 rooms available
3. Envelope Editor: Attack, decay, sustain and release knobs
4. Scale indicator: key zone linked. Generic harmony view with tone distances
5. BPM switch for different speeds of chanting.

• 4800+ samples. (3,28 GB sample content)
• 7  recorded vocal styles. The most commonly used melodic styles: Hicaz, Acem, Kurdi, Nihavent, Rast, Saba and Lami. These are applied to songs and chants. – Male folder: Chants & Songs in all keys, voice effects; whispered and spoken texts (ancient Arabian poems). Chants are wordless melody lines, Songs contain words.
• Western Minor Improvisations: with these special patches we’ve tried to blend the Arabian melody to the western harmonics. For quick scoring and creative artistic features to your music. Not all keys are available due to the vocal pitch limitation.
• Song and chant patches programmed key switches linked to the harmony root. With corresponding interface views. Root harmony and scales are presented for each key zone.
• As for the text and poems correspond to the title of the spoken text.
• 1 “Morphious” sound artist patches. A handpicked set of the best vocal performances from Desert Voice , morphed, edited , analog and digitally remixed and remasterd by two professional sound designers.
• “FX Vocal loops”,  an exclusive one of a kind original Arabian recording of the Arabian style male voice percussion. These patches are the real deal. Sonokinetic is proud to present this as a special feature
• “Ezan”, another very exclusive one of kind original Middle Eastern recording. The “Call for prayer” is like the church bell for the Christians. Very recognizable and beautifully and artistically performed.
• Time stretching patches. (TS); all male chants and songs patches are available with mod wheel function to slow down and speed up the phrases and melody lines.
• 5 impulse responses: 24 bit wave format. Red Desert Cave, Sahara Cave, Large Istanbul Dome Mosque, smaller dome mosque and Turkish empirical hall.
• Interface installers for Mac, PC and manual instructions.
• Royalty and copyright free content license.
• License and Usage Agreement for “Desert Voice”
• Arabic – Turkish – English translations for all sung and spoken texts within “Desert Voice”. These texts have never been translated. This is a genuine first. And we’re proud to present them as an extra feature.
• Artwork : “Desert Voice” dvd cover. Designed by Pavel Fuksa

Format:

• All files in 48 kHz
• 24 Bit Wave
• Programmed from Kontakt 4.2.4 and higher

Some instrument impressions:

NKI instruments & Multi instruments: Kontakt interface features: Main view: keyswitches, harmonic root and BPM buttons, breathing samples

• Red zones: Keys witches. All patches start at A0 when loaded. So the root harmony when loaded is tuned in western well tempered root key “A”.
• Green zones: Breathing sfx samples
• Yellow zones: BPM (tempo) switchers. Correspond with the buttons on the interface
• Blue zones: vocal samples
• White zones: Empty zones

Patches with TS: Mod wheel modulation. Speeds up and slows down phrases to a maximum of 40% of the original recorded tempo. Note: All recordings have been traditionally recorded without click track. These songs are unaccompanied ancient monophonic vocal ‘songs’. Convolution view: 5 desert voice IR’s

1. -Sahara Cave: Medium size sand rock triangle shaped cave
2. -Red Desert Cave: Large, bowl like, high rock cave.
3. -Suleyman Ye Mosque: Largest dome marble mosque (cathedral-like)
4. -Hagia Sophia Mosque: Mid size dome stone mosque
5. -Royal Hall: Mid size stone/granite imperial Ottoman hall

Envelope tab:

• Envelope view: full A-D-S-R modulation (attack, decay, sustain & release)
• With this tab models the full sample set ADSR. So all groups are affected by changing these setting. To keep the your custom setting please resave the patch. Next time when loaded it load the custom settings. (Consider renaming to have a backup when needed)

Scale Indicator tab: Scale indicator: linked to the style key zones. Presented with individual note intervals.

• For a detailed reference to each makam, we strongly advise to read our “Historical and musical origins” documentation.

Note: Middle Eastern music theory and character is very different form western music.

Due to it’s many microtones used in these makams. But as a general reference we found that a lot of our minor and major keys go well with these samples. We specifically applied western tuning while recording these samples. For instance, the root key goes well with major as the 4th and 5th go well in minor. But all these harmonic references are interchangeable and can be combined to create thousands of original combinations. The full potential of this sample library is yet to be unleashed. For quick – no – nonsense recording and a perfect fit to your minor harmonics please refer to the ‘western minor improvisations’ patches.

Listen to the demos

• MAC & PC
• Compatible with Kontakt 4 – Full version of Kontakt is required. ( This library is NOT compatible with Free Kontakt Player )
• All files in 48 kHz, 24 Bit wave format
• For more information or support please check our FAQ or support service
• Available as DOWNLOAD ONLY!

When you purchase and download a product from our store your personal information and download-IP address will be logged to the unique download you have paid for and downloaded. The instrument patches and sample pool have been watermarked and linked to your provided paypal / credit card information and download-IP address. You do not have to register or enter a serial number…

Download Interface Update

1) Extract zip file
you’ll find these files and folders: (example for Voices of Israel)

2) Delete the “instruments” folder from your original library:

3) Move or copy the “instruments” and .nkc & nkr files to your original library folder:

Download Time Machine Pro Updates (Kontakt 5 only)

1) Extract the zip file

2) You’ll find patches with “K5″ added to the title
move or copy the “K5 instruments” to your original library “Instruments” folder:

DONE!

Enjoy this update

Release Notes:

GUI Kontakt 5
Kontakt 5 updates are configured with Timemachine Pro pre settings and labeled as TMP (Disclaimer: these Kontakt 5 Patches use a lot of memory, make sure you are running sufficient resources to load these updates. Tested on Macbook Pro i5, 8 GB RAM)