Hi all!
I took the liberty and imported an old choir arrangement of mine into SynthV.
Language is originally Latin, set here to Spanish with European pronunciation. I used Choir 2 with reduced vibrato and less pitch variation and put a 4.5s native hall reverb on. Enjoy!
P.S.: The tenors were distracted by something and clearly didn’t pay attention to the conductor in the beginning! 
Sounds better to me than the YouTube demo that I listened to yesterday and found a little underwhelming. Definitely encouraging. Thanks for posting!
sounds pretty good – although the dynamic level is far too high causing distortion (I noticed you need to reduce it in Dorico). You said you reduced the vibrato level - I don’t see a parameter for vibrato. What have I missed?
This is the SynthV standalone, the VST version doesn’t work in Dorico on my machine… I’ll have to cook dinner now, but later I’ll make a screenshot for the ever-elusive vibrato control… 
I’m not aware of any features in the standalone which are not also in the plug-in so it will be interesting to see where this vibrato control is! Enjoy your dinner in the meantime.
I was referring to the volume or level control, that’s easier in Dorico I guess, having a proper mixer and all…
Vibrato control here:
Thanks for posting this. It isn’t perfect, but it’s far better than the ‘ahh’ sounds we’ve been getting by with.
I did literally almost no tweaking. Reduce vibrato, a little brighter, some reverb. And I had to edit the lyrics here and there from the XML import. So, more or less out of the box.
Pretty cool.
speak for yourself! I’ve always used Wordbuilder which enables text in any language to be sung thanks to the phonetic alphabet. That’s something which is a long way off presumably with SynthV. Still, it may be that for the minority of my stuff in English, it will be a better bet than anything else out there so it’s certainly a start.
Ah, got you! This is note specific which explains why I didn’t spot anything initially. And of course it makes sense – it’s only on certain long notes that the vibrato can be a bit obtrusive (or indeed on occasion you might even want more)
Well, for a typical church choir and the like I feel very little vibrato is adequate, so I just selected everything and reduced it overall!
My example is actually using 64 voices in total (!), so computation takes a noticeable while, that’s why I suggested in their forum to also enable GPU rendering.
B.
Can I ask, because I know next to nothing about SynthV, what voices you’re using? Are these stock that come with the app or do you have third party voices that cost extra?
Sure (Let’s hope I don’t get in trouble for this…):
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In fact you get one free voice with the app. The choir models you have to buy separately, but also from Dreamtonics! There are 3rd-party voices available though that are also very, very good, from Eclipsed Sounds for example.
B.
Ah, I missed the thread on the announcement of the new choir voices. Finally!!! I think I’m going to have to take the leap.
originally my understanding of this was that you’d actually translated into Spanish but I now realise that a translation is completely unnecessary as it renders Latin using the Spanish model at least as accurately as English using the American one – in fact I seem to have fewer corrections of the Latin. This could be a game changer as all (with the exception of Song of Songs) my sacred choral music is in Latin.
I picked up Synth V months ago with a 2 voice bundle — nice savings! I got my choice of both. I’ll be looking into the choir voices now!
– Jim B
Thanks for posting that rendering @YourMusic.Pro.
It’s better than what we’ve had before, for sure. At the moment, for testing the emotional impact of the music, I still prefer the vowel sounds of NP4.5 with Hollywood Choirs. But it’s getting there. I think it’s good enough to use for testing out the words.
Is it possible to control the level of sibilants, do you know?
Yes:
You can even output all the sibilants and breath noises as completely separate files, thus giving you complete control over those (compress, expand, edit…).
I was stupid enough to rush that first demo, here it is again, this time in stereo…
