@hermitage59 said:

Guy,
"Are you sure plumbing isn't a better option for you?"

Regards,

Alex,

lol [:D] Funny!

Strangely enough, I a few years back I'd say to myself, if I'd have to do it all over again, I'd get a degre in plumbing as well as my music degre. That will keep you going until good music related work comes your side. (and help pay VSL... [[;)]] )

Guy

Symphony of Voices by spectrasonics was made quite some time ago....I wonder if they will ever release a choir that has legato for example? Anyone know if they are up to this? I wish we had a bit more of a concrete answer of a time frame when VSL's Choir will come out....even though someone here mentioned they are still "seeing" if they want to do it.......doesn't sound too encouraging.....unfortunately there isn't much else here...besides East West's which does sound great and can sound cheesy. The "Slang Legato" really sounds awful to me and for 900 dollars!! I wonder how much VSL would sell theirs....Symphony of Voices "Still" hasn't dropped in price from being 500 dollars. Isn't that a bit odd?

Job might be able to do it, but no one else is going to achieve Peter's benchmarks with any of the sampled choirs available today and also have a life. If that's your expectation, you're in for severe disappointment. The Messiah or Mozart Requium just aren't going to happen.

But they're still really nice! You just have to use them for what they do well, and in general they don't want to be exposed too starkly.

So Nick what would you say is the most flexible choir to get now? What has a great sound, good lasting value, and one that is easy to operate for what it can do? Of course this is opinion but what is yours :lol[*-)] Do you think waiting for VSL whenever that is will be the best idea or to go ahead with something else?

I haven't tried Symphony of Voices, Austin. EWQLSC is certainly the highest-end and most ambitious choir right now, and unless you're expecting it to be as close to the real thing as EWQLSO is, it's hard to imagine that anyone would regret buying it.

Giovani is a children's choir only and is by design a very specific library, but it's capable of producing some nice sounds if you put in the work to make it sound good.

To tell you the truth, I still love the mixed choir in the Kurzweil K2500. It's a pad sound rather than an SATB choir, and in that sense it's primitive since it's a mixed choir that you play rather than program. You won't get it to play choral music, but it's a gorgeous sound.

And if I were in a position to know whether it's worth waiting for the VSL choir, I wouldn't be allowed to tell you. [:)] (I'm not in that position.)

Thanks Nick for your response. Anyone else have any opinions?

@Nick Batzdorf said:

I haven't tried Symphony of Voices....

It's good for certain things but don't expect anything realistic for chord progressions! It actually sucks for that! But the sampled phrases (Kyrie Eleison, Sanctus etc...) are neat, although quickly becomes repetitive!

So then Guy, do you think that East West's version is superior to SOV? SOV seems to have a larger ambience or decay with it where East West appears not...can you get the sound SOV has out of East West?

By the way, I use Gigastudio 3 orchestra version and East West is a plugin using kompakt......how is the cpu usage with the East West? Thanks!

@Austin Haynes said:

So then Guy, do you think that East West's version is superior to SOV? SOV seems to have a larger ambience or decay with it where East West appears not...can you get the sound SOV has out of East West?

I'd have to rely on the EastWest demos I've heard, since I haven't got it yet, but yes it's true that the variety of attacks, decays and ambiance is excellent in the SOV and I must say the solo boy is very realistic! And haunting...
But just don't think of choir chord progressions, it spoils it. But EW demos seem quite satisfactory to my ear in that regard.

Hmm....it seems that the strenght of the East West Choir is the fact that you can say things with it's word tool...but is it weak where SOV soars which is in the ambience and samples themselves? SOV seems to be great for atmosphere layering....is East West Choir capable of sounding like SOV does in this regard or is it too piercing and not offering the soft quality....Voices of the Apocalypse for example doesn't have the soft quality of a choir but has great Operatic Falsetto. The main question I'm getting at is can East West's choir offer the ambience of SOV and the soft range which Apocalypse never really had? If so, then East West's choir has everything you want in a choir except that great Legato which VSL does best....

@Austin Haynes said:

Hmm....it seems that the strenght of the East West Choir is the fact that you can say things with it's word tool...but is it weak where SOV soars which is in the ambience and samples themselves? SOV seems to be great for atmosphere layering....is East West Choir capable of sounding like SOV does in this regard or is it too piercing and not offering the soft quality....Voices of the Apocalypse for example doesn't have the soft quality of a choir but has great Operatic Falsetto. The main question I'm getting at is can East West's choir offer the ambience of SOV and the soft range which Apocalypse never really had? If so, then East West's choir has everything you want in a choir except that great Legato which VSL does best....

That sounds pretty accurate to me.