The Zero-G Blog

As you might have guessed from the name, Ethera is meant to sound ethereal, and it can’t be denied that Clara Sorace, whose vocal performances were sampled to create this 3.4GB library, definitely leans more towards Enya than Aretha. The instrument created from Clara’s recordings is presented as a collection of Kontakt interfaces, which enable the user to build choral pads and distinct articulations using both staccato and legato phrasing. Version One of Ethera offered some of these features, but this second version adds a gigabyte of samples, more legato and polyphonic phrases, extra pad patches, and a number of interfaces that do things like play samples in reverse and allow the user to build long phrases out of a sequence of phonems ...