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Welcome to our upcoming Forgotten Voices: "Cait"

Singer Cait McWhir, originally hailing from Ireland, draws her inspiration from almost 20 years of exploration with indian, balkan, middle-eastern & celtic vocal styles. She has an incredible versatility allowing her to freely cross between conventional folklore to ancient Sanskrit chants, Vedic mantras to free improvisation in self made languages.

The library is constructed from over a thousand different vocal phrases covering over 15 hours of recording material. The phrases are divided into a variety of categories varying from some of the oldest songs known to man from the ancient Sanskrit chants to free improvisational phrases. The library has specific patches such as Balkan, Lullaby, Sanskrit Chants, Witch Chants and so forth. In addition some phrases in the library were recorded 2-3 times, which allows for a more broad type of vocal sound by layering the same phrase two or three times. We specifically used those in demo 3 and 4 (see below).

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 Cait contains a bonus set of over 40 unique 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). All the ambiences are made from Cait source material, so they seamlessly blend with her voice and are amazing for instant scoring.

Note: All demos (see below) are played live using one vocal ambience and one set of vocals pr. demo, so they literally took 3-5 minutes to compose. So what you hear is what you get.

Articulations include:
Improvisational phrases in self-made language(s) divided into several categories
Sanskrit & Vedic Chants
Persian / Middle Eastern inspired phrases
Balkan inspired phrases
Gaelic/Celtic inspired phrases
Devotional phrases
Romantic phrases
Hopeful chanting
Frantic and Mournful chanting
High pitched (airy / girly) chanting
Rhythmic chanting
Lullaby’s
Witch Incantations
Vocal percussion FX (ex. vocal shakers, clacks, click, chhh etc)
Bonus: 43 Vocal ambient banks (Kontakt 3 only) by Steven Tavaglione