Symphonic Choirs - Reviews - Music Tech Magazine

As well as providing three microphone positions and 24-bit samples, Symphonic Choirs also promises the ability to sing your lyrics. Mark Cousins voices his opinion…

Price: £650.00
Manufacturer: EastWest/Quantum Leap
Website: http://www.soundsonline.com

With all the effort and expense lavished on recent orchestral sample libraries, it’s surprising to realise how little development has taken place in respect of sampled symphonic choirs. Indeed, while orchestral libraries have swelled from megabytes to gigabytes, most composers have had to continue using ‘first-generation’ products like Spectrasonics’ once-great but now sadly outdated, Symphony Of Voices. Although the recording quality of these older libraries was excellent, their limitation was that they could deliver only static vowel sounds – fine for generic choral washes, but limited if you wanted anything that sounded like a real choir.

Score: 10

This review first appeared in Music Tech Magazine issue 30
Filed under ROMplers, Sampling Instruments, Software

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