The Plug in pack I decided to purchase to help the production of the piece, was a vocal sample pack from ‘Soundiron’

How it works is that Francesca was recorded in a studio singing a range of phrases, then after these are recorded they are edited and then digitised and installed into software designed to be able to have any composer reproduce Francesca’s performances into their work that they’re producing or live.

Within the software you can easily manipulate a range of properties with Francesca’s voice, some of these being: Pitch, Timbre, Phase, Direction, and Loudness.

The Plug in can be used through Native Instruments Kontakt, a sampler plugin allowing you to store multiple 3rd party plug ins all in one area, in short like a wide sound library with endless possibility. Unfortunately as I only have the Kontakt 5 player, using this plugin became quite the task. Every 15 minutes the ‘Demo’ would run out. To overcome this issue, everything I did through the plugin I bounced to audio with no processing. and then when the demo had run out I would close the plugin and restart it, quite clever I thought!

Bellow is what the early stages of the vocal textures sounds like, with also a picture so you can see what you’re hearing.