Venus Symphonic Women's Choir by Soundiron Kontakt choral instrument interface

Venus Symphonic Women's Choir: 33-Voice Kontakt Choir Library

Venus Symphonic Women's Choir is a 33-voice female choral sample library for Kontakt, built for professional scoring and arrangement. It includes pure vowels, Latin and Slavonic sung content, and a large set of choral effects.

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AVAILABLE ATPlugin Boutique
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01Overview

Venus is Soundiron's female counterpart to the Mars Symphonic Men's Choir. The library was recorded with a 33-singer women's chorus drawn from Volti, the SF Symphony Chorus and the SF Choral Society, using two room positions, a close and a far mic perspective. The developer positions it for composers who need a powerful, clear choral sound that blends into a mix with minimal effort. Its articulation set covers marcatos, staccatos, legato vowels, trills and polysustains in two languages.

Best for

  • Choral film scoring
  • Sacred and liturgical writing
  • Vocal pads and legato lines
  • Experimental choir textures
  • Staccato and marcato ostinatos
  • Surround choir mixing
Developer
Soundiron
Requires
Kontakt
Store
Plugin Boutique
02Key features

What you get

  • 33-voice female chorus recorded with 12 large diaphragm Neumann microphones
  • Close and far room positions for mixing and surround use
  • Marcato Builder for combining attack, sustain and release components
  • 406 Kontakt NKI presets and 120 NKM combo multi-instrument patches
  • Slavonic and Latin slow and fast tempo polysustains with tempo-sync
  • Staccatos, marcatos and shouts, sweeps, clusters and other choral effects
  • Four dynamic-layered true legato vowels plus a soft Mmm
  • Two soprano and three alto soloists in both languages
03In depth

Articulations and Choral Character

Venus is organized around articulation families. Marcatos and staccatos include round-robin variations and dynamic layering, with pp and fff versions on the core vowels. Polysustains come in slow and fast tempos in both Slavonic and Latin, with tempo-synced options, legato and release variants. Whispered and droning polysustains add texture, and the library includes four dynamic-layered true legato vowels (Ah, Eh, Oh, Oo) plus a soft Mmm.

The Marcato Builder lets you combine attack, sustain and release consonant and vowel components and cross-fade between them. A combined Marcato and Staccato phrase builder can store up to 16 user sequences for cycling or keyswitching.

Workflow, Mic Positions and Who It Suits

Each preset is available with close and far mic positions, and 120 combo multi-instrument patches are provided for custom mixing and surround routing. The library includes two soprano and three alto soloists singing in both languages, along with tempo-synching and time-stretching presets optimized for Kontakt 5 and integrated DSP effects with convolution impulses.

The bonus collection of ambiences, drones, pads and atmospheres is built from the same choral source, which may suit composers working on film, game or experimental scores that need choir-derived textures alongside full ensemble writing.

04Specs

Will it run?

Formats, systems and requirements as listed by Plugin Boutique. Missing details are left out, not guessed.

DeveloperSoundiron
TypePlugin
CategoryKontakt Instrument
RequiresKontakt
FormatsKontakt
Operating systemsWindows, macOS
05FAQ

Questions, answered

What do I need to run Venus Symphonic Women's Choir?

Venus requires the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt. The developer states that version 5.1.0 or later is needed for the Kontakt 5 NKI presets and 4.2.4 or later for the Kontakt 4 presets. The free Kontakt Player only runs it in demo mode.

Which operating systems does Venus support?

Venus is listed for Windows and macOS. The system requirements call for a dual-core CPU and 4 GB of RAM, with an SSD or SATA drive recommended, and a broadband connection for the digital download.

Can I use the samples outside Kontakt?

Yes. Soundiron describes the library as an open-format Kontakt library, and the sample directories are unlocked for use in other WAV-compatible software, samplers and synths. The samples are 24-bit / 48kHz uncompressed WAV.

How large is the library?

The library is listed at 26.7 GB installed and contains 25,730 samples.

07Developer

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