This chapter of the soundscape is where it starts to get a bit more complex and really focuses on the exotic elements.

In this section of the soundscape I drop out the recurring pads and instruments and focus purely with one external VST which is Soundirons Voice of Gaia: Francesca Genco.

 

This is an incredibly powerful vast, with a wide range of vocal textures throughout the entire pack!

You can listen to some samples of the sample pack here:

I did run into a few issues though whilst constructing this chapter. Unfortunately the vst requires the full version of Kontakt which I do not posses, so using it in Kontakt player it ran as a demo. So to fully utilise it’s elements I had to bounce down the mdid data into audio, which made it a bit harder to work with as I couldn’t really edit the length of the notes and such. I do prefer working with midi data and I think you can build upon it much easier, but it does take up a lot of cpu and memory when working with many external vsts running through Kontakt and Reaktor such as; Voices of Gaia, Prism and REV.

Here is a short overview of the layers and textures I used within this chapter. As you can see I used many different forms of vocal textures and layered them on top of one another to really provide a full rich exotic accompaniment. There are many different modes you can utilise, Legato mode, Franscapes, Vocal Textures, Staccato Mode, Phrases, Vocal Effects, Ambiences and Life. I think the trick to it was, was not overfilling it with sound.

I generally wanted to keep this chapter very minimalist sounding, elements I used such as these the prominent whispers in the background:  Where used as a sort of eire texture to pose as a sort of unknowing to the listener. They’re not quite audible, and they’re automated so that they pan from left to right but their intention is not meant to be strictly prominent. This takes the perspective back to making the listener focus.