Zero-G has announced the release of Ethera, a new cinematic vocal instrument for NI Kontakt that combines vocal samples, simplicity and a high degree of playability all packed into a beautiful interface for total ease-of use and ultimate sound manipulation.
Ethera features 3 main instruments: Phrases, Pads and Legato.
The Phrases section includes 45 patches ranging in styles from Epic, Fantasy, Celtic, Operatic, Tribal and World and even EDM and soul. These can be mixed and combined and using the two Off-Set controls you can change the starting points of the samples using the waveform display. This allows you to create new phrases and to personalise the existing phrases. These phrases can be manipulated in many ways by the GUI controls including time-stretching or syncing to your host application.
The Pads section contains several beautiful vocal pads that immediately add emotion or grandeur to your compositions.
The Legato section offers the ability to 'play' the voice of Ethera using 'ohs' and 'ahs' in sustained or staccato modes and features Attack, Legato Speed, Release, Vibrato, Pan and Volume controls.
Furthermore there is an additional folder called ETHERA EXTRA with extra sounds such as virtual legato patches, sustains & pads.
Ethera also comes fully equipped with a complete FX section that includes chorus, flanger and phaser, compressor, EQ, filter, convolution reverb, overdrive, delay, amp simulator and cabinet simulator.
Ethera requires the FULL version of Kontakt, 5.5.14 or higher.
Ethera is dubbed 'cinematic' but it also works really well for Soul, EDM, Tribal and World music too.
There are numerous video demos for Ethera at the Zero-G website.
Price: Introductory 20% discount until Tuesday 10 May ($70.39 instead of $87.99).
Other Related News
