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Basso Profondo Choir

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Overview
Audio
Articulations
Pricing
Manual

Standard

€165

Full

Basso Profondo Choir

€255

Basso Profondo Choir

Overview
Audio
Articulations

Standard

Basso Profondo Choir

€165

Full

Basso Profondo Choir

€255

Vocal Depths, Creative Peaks

The Basso Profondo represents the deepest and darkest voice in the human vocal range. Revered in church choirs and operatic roles like Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier, this register captivates with its resonant timbre, capable of rattling foundations while also delivering an ethereal, haunting quality that ranges from enchanting to eerie. The foreboding deep bass dives into dramatic dimensions that few other voices can reach, embodying the mysterious and the earthy. Originating from the recording sessions for the choir-heavy “The Rings of Power” scoring sessions at Synchron Stage Vienna, this library of massive voices is ready to take your project to new depths of expression.

A man with a white beard and black eyeglasses wears headphones and sings in a choir. The text Basso Profondo Choir is overlaid on the left.

Overview

A full basso profondo choir at your disposal
Exceptionally and virtuosic deep voices
Versatile low register sounds
Expressive articulations like legato and marcato
Vocal effects from the sacred (omm & prayer) to the scary

Basso Profondo singers, whose voices are distinguished by their rich, resonant, and profoundly deep vocal quality, stand out for their ability to reach the lower limits of the human vocal range. That means descending far below the common bass and typically encompassing notes as low as two octaves below middle C (C2) or even lower. Also called oktavists, they often sing an octave below the bass part as soloists. Even one singer using the depths of his voice like that is impressive, now imagine hearing six contrabass singers fill the vast Synchron Stage A – and now your DAW! – with the robust sound of a low C: It’s mystifying and undeniably mesmerizing.

Audio Demos

Basso Profondo Choir

4 Tracks

Of Boys and Men - with Vienna Boys Choir

Articulations

Short notes on “aa” / "uu", and with consonants “k”, “l”, “m”, “p”, “r”, “s”, “t”
Long notes regular and espressivo
Sforzato
Crescendo short and long
Diminuendo short and long
Legato
Legato + portamento (from minor 6th)
Marcato on vowel with consonants “k”, “l”, “m”, “p”, “r”, “s”, “t”
Three-note clusters

Basso Profondo Choir seating and microphone placement for recording, featuring Main Decca Tree, Mid 1 Microphones, Close, High L/R Stereo, High L/R Surround, and Surround L/R microphone positions.

Pricing

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Standard

€ 165

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Full

€ 255

Stage A

Close Mic – Mono

Mid Mic – Stereo (L/R)

Main/Room Mic – Decca Tree Stereo (L/R)

Main/Room Mic – Decca Tree Mono (Center)

Main Surround – Stereo (L/R)

High Stereo (3D) – Stereo (L/R)

High Surround (3D) – Stereo (L/R)

Data Size

Sample Amount

17,665

28,264

Download File Size

3 GB

4 GB

Installed File Size

6 GB

10 GB

Standard € 165

Full € 255

System Requirements

Minimum:

Windows 10 (latest update, 64-bit), Intel Core i7 or AMD Athlon 64 X2
macOS 12 Monterey (latest update), Intel Core i7
SSD (M2, SATA 6 or USB3/3.1, UASP Support - HFS+, APFS or NTFS formatted)
16 GB RAM
iLok Account for license activation on a physical iLok 2/iLok 3 key or in an iLok Cloud Session (the iLok Cloud requires a constant internet connection!)