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The Mars Symphonic Men's Choir Black Friday deal brings this 30-voice male choir for Kontakt down by 50%, so it costs $199.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
Mars is a male choral ensemble library from Soundiron, made for film and TV scoring, symphonic arrangement and general music production. The maker says it is the first release in its Olympus choral series.
It draws on what the team learned building earlier choir projects at Tonehammer, namely Requiem and Liberis.
The core is a 30-voice male chorus plus three soloists: one bass and two tenors. Everything is sung in Latin and in Slavonic (Russian liturgical), and there is a third content set built on pure vowels.
The maker lists these articulations:
The sustaining articulations include 3-part polyphonic pseudo-legato, so you can play chords from a single patch.
The sessions ran over 10 days at Montclair Presbyterian in the Oakland Hills. The 30 singers were hand-picked from SF Symphony Chorus, SF Opera, SF Choral Society and Volti.
Ten large-diaphragm Neumann microphones captured the room, with wide pairs placed from 1 meter to 25 meters away.
Those are blended into two composite mic positions, stage and hall. Two stereo positions keep the mix simple, and the convolution impulses built into every preset help it settle into a bus.
The Marcato Builder lets you assemble words from 7 vowel sustain types. Across them there are 42 attack syllables and 42 release sounds, each with its own round-robin and automation-ready controls.
The combined Marcato/Staccato Phrase Builder stores your own sequences with preset saving. You can hold up to 16 and cycle or keyswitch between them.
The library also has 42 marcatos and 26 staccatos with round-robin.
Kontakt 5 features add tempo-synching for the poly-sustain presets, time-stretching for choral effects, and legato speed control that runs from tight legato to slow portamento.
Mars is an open-format Kontakt library that needs the full retail version of Kontakt. Kontakt 4.2.4 or later runs the core presets, and 5.1 or later is needed for the advanced ones. The free Kontakt Player only opens it in demo mode.
It installs at 17.9 GB with 16,091 samples in 24-bit/48kHz uncompressed WAV. You get 220 core nki presets, 74 advanced nki presets and the matching nkm multis.
The samples and presets are unlocked for customization. The maker recommends a dual-core CPU, 4 GB of RAM and a SATA or SSD drive.
The Libraries tab does not support it. Load it through the File browser tab or the Quickload window instead.
Yes. The Mars Symphonic Men's Choir Black Friday deal takes 50% off this Soundiron Kontakt library, bringing it to $199.50. The offer runs until Dec 6, 2026.
A 30-voice male chorus and three soloists, one bass and two tenors, singing in Latin and Slavonic. It adds pure vowel content, choral effects, and a bonus set of ambiences, drones, textures and FX.
No. It is an open-format library that needs the full retail version of Kontakt: 4.2.4 or later for the core presets, 5.1 or later for the advanced ones. The free Player only runs it in demo mode.
It installs at 17.9 GB and holds 16,091 samples in 24-bit/48kHz uncompressed WAV. The maker recommends a dual-core CPU, 4 GB of RAM and a SATA or SSD drive for it.
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