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hardware synths that are good for synthetic choirs/voices?

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 1:54 am
by tavravlavish
Subject basically says it all, the cheaper the better. I wouldn't buy a synth for just these purposes but it might point me in the right direction. samples are always welcome too. Thanks guys.

Re: hardware synths that are good for synthetic choirs/voice

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 9:35 am
by Divane
I like Logic's Choirs but there are a lot of different and probably better plugins out there.

East West got a couple good ones i think .

There are some rather big sample libraries (about 20gb). Haven't tried them but I guess if you want to sound as real as possible it take up some space.

Re: hardware synths that are good for synthetic choirs/voice

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:56 am
by paradigm_x
Wavestation is a cool old synth that you can prob grab cheap, anything modern with a bunch of samples would have a ton of choirs etc really...

Old digital stuffs going for peanuts, try a kurzweil k2000 or k2500...

Re: hardware synths that are good for synthetic choirs/voice

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 7:42 pm
by Kilo Graham
DSK's ChoirZ (don't be offput by the cheesy z in the name, he does it with all his plugins)

http://rekkerd.org/dsk-music-releases-dsk-choirz-beta/

I like mellotrons.

Re: hardware synths that are good for synthetic choirs/voice

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 7:53 am
by tavravlavish
thanks guys anymore suggestions?

Re: hardware synths that are good for synthetic choirs/voice

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:38 am
by Kilo Graham
tavravlavish wrote:thanks guys anymore suggestions?
Kontakt has a cool Mellotron sample in the stock pack. There are a lot of good options. Do you just want a general one?

Re: hardware synths that are good for synthetic choirs/voice

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 10:27 am
by VirtualMark
Pretty much any synth with sample playback capability would be able to do a choir. Why on earth would you want to buy hardware for a fucking choir? It's got to be one of the easiest sounds to get, i have more choir samples than i'll ever need!

Re: hardware synths that are good for synthetic choirs/voice

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 1:01 pm
by Sharmaji
roland jv series has lots of good oohs and aaahs

Re: hardware synths that are good for synthetic choirs/voice

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 6:38 pm
by tavravlavish
Kilo Graham wrote:
tavravlavish wrote:thanks guys anymore suggestions?
Kontakt has a cool Mellotron sample in the stock pack. There are a lot of good options. Do you just want a general one?
many just ooohs and ahhhs, 80s retro stuff.

Re: hardware synths that are good for synthetic choirs/voice

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 6:40 pm
by tavravlavish
VirtualMark wrote:Pretty much any synth with sample playback capability would be able to do a choir. Why on earth would you want to buy hardware for a fucking choir? It's got to be one of the easiest sounds to get, i have more choir samples than i'll ever need!
Then hook me up with some choir samples fool!

Re: hardware synths that are good for synthetic choirs/voice

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 6:46 pm
by tavravlavish
Sharmaji wrote:roland jv series has lots of good oohs and aaahs
maybe I could grab a rack on the cheap.

Re: hardware synths that are good for synthetic choirs/voice

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 7:57 pm
by mks
Yeah, JV-1080 or 2080. They have some of those sounds as they are Romplers. But a very capable synth, lots of great pads.

They were standard in film composers studios for years.

Re: hardware synths that are good for synthetic choirs/voice

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:44 pm
by VirtualMark
tavravlavish wrote:
VirtualMark wrote:Pretty much any synth with sample playback capability would be able to do a choir. Why on earth would you want to buy hardware for a fucking choir? It's got to be one of the easiest sounds to get, i have more choir samples than i'll ever need!
Then hook me up with some choir samples fool!
My choir samples are multi gb but there's dozens of packs out there for things like kontakt. Spectrasonics do one called voices of london choir, has male, female, ahs, mms ohs etc.

I certainly wouldn't buy hardware just for playing choir samples.

Re: hardware synths that are good for synthetic choirs/voice

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:11 pm
by paradigm_x
just buy a wavestation fool!
last one to sell onebay went for £75, full keyboard (I.E. FREE MIDI controller) and extra rom cards.

looking at some myself now, didnt realise they were that cheap.

Re: hardware synths that are good for synthetic choirs/voice

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 2:12 am
by Hero
roland d-50> anything else besides a real sample.... its linear synthesis is a combination of a real envelope of the sound and/or digital synthsys on top of it