Welcome to Forgotten Voices: Barbary
Barbary Grant is a highly renowned vocalist and harper within Celtic communities.
She sings- and articulates fluently- in all three Goidelic languages: Scots Gaelic,
Irish, and Manx. This homage won her first place in the sean nŐs competition at
the 1998 Great American Irish Fair. (Sean nŐs . .old style. in Irish . is a highly
ornamented style of a cappella singing.)
This vocal library is constructed from over 1450 different vocal phrases covering
over 12 hours of recording material. The majority phrases in the library are based
on majority of classic (public domain) songs from the Celtic, Gaelic, Irish, Scots,
Welsh and Manx music folklore. Additionally the library contains a variety of more
experimental phrases, including whisper songs, chantings, lullabys, elwish whispers
and basic sustained notes. The library follows programming and editing techniques
introduced in our Forgotten Voices: Francesca library.The programming allows user
to sculpt- and morph phrases by adjusting the mod-wheel and pitch bender.
The mod-wheel controls the sample starting point, so users can trigger off-set
anywhere they want in the phrases. The pitch bender allows you to
time-stretch/compress the phrase. The combination between sample off-set control
and time-stretch/compression allows users to seamlessly morph different phrases
together, which brings endless possibilities for creating new phrases. In addition
Barbary contains a bonus set of vocal ambiences (note: Kontakt 3 only) made by
Steven Tavaglione (Instrumentalist and Sound Designer; Wall-E, American Beauty, CSI,
Supernatural and 100s other movies/shows/games).
Note: All demos are played live using one vocal ambience and one set of vocals
pr. demo, so they literally took 3-5 minutes to compose. We wanted to show a
completely .naked. approach to using the vocals.
Tonehammer Forgotten Voices: .Barbary.:
Traditional folklore categories for all phrase types, including:
*Gaelic phrases
*Celtic phrases
*Scots Gaelic phrases
*Scots phrases
*Welsh phrases
*Irish phrases
*Old English phrases
*Manx phrases
*Improvisational chanting
*Improvisational whisper songs
*Harp Songs (Vocals sung through resonance chamber of a celtic harp)
*Whisper Songs (Extremely soft songs between singing and whispering)
Bonus: Non-extensive section of sustained (oh, ah, eh) notes at mezzo-piano
Bonus: Gaelic (Elwish) Whispers and breath FX
Bonus: Vocal ambient banks (Kontakt 3 only) by Steven Tavaglione.
Intelligent editing and programming (off-set and time-stretch control)
Extensive read me install, patch and hint documentation (.pdf) (download here)
Listen exclusive interview w/ Barbary Grant/ Vocalist (mp3 interview)
46 instrument patches, 1.566 samples, 1.37 GB installed, 924 MB .rar download
Sample resolution: 44.1Khz/24Bit mono- and stereo .wav format
Format(s): Kontakt 2 and .wav (note: Kontakt 3 required for bonus content)
Native Instruments Kontakt 2.2.4 / 3 full stand-alone retail versions required
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Download File Size:1.16 GB
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