Thanks a lot for your wonderful feedback. [:D]
The honor and credits belong to our choir-project leaders
Gudrun Marquardt and Andrea Mazagg,
and to our recording director Michael Hula.

best
Herb

Woooooooow !!

Not only that I finally got a job ! (well - which nowadays is almost like winning the lottery - especially here in Germany) - and sooner or later will be able to update to SC [[;)]]
the fact that VSL is heading right towards a choir library made my next 5 years !

Thanks soooooo much Herb.

Seb

Is there any chance that the choir will eventually be released separately for we mere mortals who can't afford all 10 Symphonic Cube standard collections?

Matrix corrupt ? I only see the first keyswitch ... the others are empty. Have I to remove the soprano choir from the library manager and add it again ? The installation was fine ...

@jamriding said:

Is there any chance that the choir will eventually be released separately for we mere mortals who can't afford all 10 Symphonic Cube standard collections?

Judging by what I've played with so far they'd be mad not to release it. Obviously it is currently a smallish product compared with any of the orchestral instruments, but I can see that with more articulations (wordbuilding), different speeds of legato, vibrato/non vib and all the rest it could be a killer product. I know that this probably makes it worse for you as you haven't got it, but the fact that we have what we have already means that VSL is serious about the choir "collection".

DG

don't forget a choir performance trill [8-)]

@SyQuEsT said:

don't forget a choir performance trill [8-)]

Yeah, baby.........

DG

/vomits from excitement

@SyQuEsT said:

don't forget a choir performance trill [8-)]

Yeah, baby.........

DG

And don't forget mmmmmmm&mmmmmm's [:D]

my head is exploding

does anyone fancy showing off their fancy new mini-lib by posting up a few samples of the articulations, eg. an sfz, the perf_legato, etc..

in fact, even just a sample of the perf-legati would be super sexy.

A very promising and exciting first sign [[:)]]

Even though I'm a poor Opus second class citizen... [:O]ops: [:D] [[;)]]

Seriously though, I had been wondering what the status of a choir from VSL was - any indication of how long until the full set is ready? Is it something that is fully in the works right now, or will it still be a good long while?


Yet another voice in favour of performance trills!
And of course the capacity for full word building is a must, or it would be a bizare effort to record so much and not be able to truly let it sing. [[:)]]

I very much like the tone, and the legato seems to work like a charm!

@jc5 said:

I very much like the tone, and the legato seems to work like a charm!

It woks like a charm ! [H] [[;)]]

I find the legato a little bumpy and uneven; sort of like there was too much diaphragm punctuation when recording it. It works very well for medium speed transitions, but for slower stuff is not quite right. Using a mixture of sus and leg seems to be a suitable workaround, but I'm looking forward to the full product (if it exists, when it's ready) where there will be different speed legati.

DG

Very interesting prospects! Hopefully a full VSL choir will be released soon (standalone, please).

The high a' near the end sounds louder recorded than played back and since I'm currently learning my first lessons about choir I wonder if this high a' is a good idea anyway in a soft context? Can anybody elaborate who has some more significant choir experience?

- M

wow...

downloading now.

I think you can be very sure his will be released as a standalone (meaning no cube required). All speculation of course,.

Herb,

very generous, Thanxs! the legato patch sounds great! But:
With OSX 10.4.8 and Logic 7.2.3 I cannot load any presets or matrixes, only patches!!!
Something is wrong: The articulation-keyswitch assignment shows: C1 and then E4, E4,E4, E4 etc... are the files corrupted?
Installation ran smoothly.

What can that be???

Regards
Oliver

Hi Oliver

The choir was mapped with Vienna Instrument version 1.1.
Maybe this is causing your problems.

Version 1.1 is now available for download.
Informations for this new version you will find in the 2nd post of the "Vienna Instruments information thread":

http://community.vsl.co.at/viewtopic.php?t=7977&iframe=true

best
Herb

Hi Herb - Very nice tone, and very nice download!

A few suggestions. The legato has a little vocal squeek in many of the transitions, which overall also seem a bit to loud in volume. The change in volume makes the transition less subtle and fluent.

@Christian Marcussen said:

Hi Herb - Very nice tone, and very nice download!

A few suggestions. The legato has a little vocal squeek in many of the transitions, which overall also seem a bit to loud in volume. The change in volume makes the transition less subtle and fluent.

I agree - lovely samples also the intonation variables you get with a live choir appear to be present as well!

I notice the sort of transition pulse when playing quiet legato lines - less noticable when the midi volume is mf/f but does appear in a mix to be a strangeness rather than integrating with the preceding and following notes.

Julian