Without wishing to turn this forum into a duplicate of VI control, Spitfire is selling this choral library for £149 / $199. Usually, it’s about $500 or something.
It’s “quite large”, at about 165 Gb, though.
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Thanks Ben.
It sounds great - I have it - but be warned that the ranges of the individual voices are limited. If I remember, their respective Ds are the highest notes for altos and basses, for example.
It’s possible to kind of get round this by using a VST such as Unify to create a ‘virtual alto’ with the alto patch covering its official range and the soprano patch covering the top few notes.
I can only find a single “choir” patch (in various Ah, Ooo, Mmm, etc) – so my criticism was that there’s no distinguishing a Tenor high note from a low Soprano.
There are patches for the individual voices in there somewhere!
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It’s a beautiful library, I’ve used it for a few years.
Also be warned even with the “official” expression map the dynamics are all over the place. Of particular note are massive dynamic jumps between slurred, regular, and short notes. I have manipulated the maps to control them more but I have generally found it to be an uphill battle for featured choral writing – you end up having to do so much automation and cheated/hidden dynamics that honestly I think it performs much better in a DAW for that.
For the occasional simple choir pad of ooh’s and ahh’s perhaps of secondary focus in a composition, it’s worth it. When it works, it’s gorgeous.
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