This is the most powerful vocals solution available. The phrases menu is customizable so you can add your own phrases to WordBuilder for quick and easy access. The phrases have been optimized for each Choir. Well now you can, courtesy of Symphonic Choirs, the latest virtual-instrument sample library from East West and Quantum Leap. This is a real time saver for those on a tight deadline. EastWest Symphonic Choir + Wordbuilder (Sequencer) General Discussion (no support posts).
This revolutionary software also includes a pop-down menu that includes popular pre-built phrases that you can load instantly. Wordbuilder, now built into EastWest's Play software, is the word building software that enables Symphonic Choirs and Symphonic Choirs Expansion users to type in words for the Choirs to sing. The Symphonic Choirs Expansion (Voices of the Apocalypse content) was recorded separately, at 24-bit resolution with a single mic position. This eliminates the need for artificial reverb. By selecting different mic positions, users can mix these sounds together to create any kind of natural ambience their project requires. To achieve the feel of a live concert hall performance, each instrument and section was recorded with three mic positions: close, stage (conductor's position) and hall. The Choirs were recorded in the same concert hall, by the same team as the EastWest Symphonic Orchestra and blend perfectly with EWQLSO. In addition, the Platinum edition (Gold edition has one mic position and is 16-bit) is the first 24-bit Choir virtual instrument to include three simultaneous stereo mic setups (close, stage and hall), so users can mix any combination of mic positions to control ambience. I am quite happy tho with the quality of the actual sound tho, very nice but you need to EQ/balance some of the strings to make it fit with say Native Instruments content sometimes.Imagine typing words into your computer, in any language, and hearing a world class Symphonic Choir sing those words in any key(s) you play "live" on your keyboard controller! Well imagine no more, that's exactly what this revolutionary "award-winning" virtual instrument does. The package was a %50 deal and I really don't feel I would have been happy had I spent a cent more than I did. While I love the sound of their strings and their horn sections I also bought their reverb plugin which I find quite meh. These were not a slight sound either, these were quite loud and noticeable on certain notes. I have also found (and reported back to them) some of their samples in some of their strings (symphonic strings gold I think) have pops/loop brace sounds which I was disappointed to hear since I spent over $1k on a package. The issue is the sheer amount of small samples that need to be loaded into RAM. You really need an SSD which dropped load times by 3/4.
I started on my standard 7200rpm HDD and as the other poster mentioned it takes ages to load if you have a few instruments. One thing to note is this is higher end library stuff so uses HUGE library's. There is no way to "host automate" any parameters in Play from Live and it feels very clunky in terms of loading and setting multi players etc. it is horrid and I WISH they still used Kontakt. I have the EXACT same experience with the Play software. Yeah I have it and like most of their content, sounds great if you need that kind of thing.