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s7a5 · Post by **s7a5** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:06 pm

Hello
im very interested what VSTIs produce good choir pads?
I mean female and male voices like "ahhhhhhhhhhh" , "ohhhhhhhhhh", trrrrrraaaahhhhhh" etc

I tried Atmosphere but there are alsmot none. I had to buy it only for that

Anyways its pretty useful
thanks alot

shamann · Post by **shamann** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:09 pm

Big Tick's Angelina

greendoor · Post by **greendoor** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:31 pm

Angelina is a formant synth - sort of plastic sounding but in the ballpark. There are plenty of free choir soundfonts, most of them sampled from rompler keyboards that had good oooz and aaaz. The GM format has some choir sounds, but the quality varies between GM soundfonts or modules. There are some good (expensive) choir sample sets for the various samplers (Halion, Kontact, VSampler etc). Depends how much you want to pay. I find most of these choir pads give a cheesy GM feel to a mix that is very dated. If you want stunning Clannard type vocals sounds, your sort of have to do it yourself by recording a breathy vocal about 50 times (really) and using great reverbs. You could try CloneEnsemble on a single voice and/or harmonies for a similar effect.

Tonmann · Post by **Tonmann** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:38 pm

I'd go for a good soundfont player, like Bismark's BS-1 or BS-16 or rcg audio's sfz. There are plenty of great soundfonts around with "ahhhh" and "ohhh" choirs.
I like these ones here especially: http://www.papelmedia.de/english/download/index.htm

cheers,
Chris

manytone · Post by **manytone** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:41 pm

Vox'd VSTi
www.wusik.com
a bit synthy perhaps for you, but we like it

Some great Voxy Pads to be had.

cyanogen · Post by **cyanogen** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:42 pm

There's one by Wusik called Vox'd. I'm pretty sure it would meet your needs:

http://www.wusik.com/index.php?pagep=vo ... &menu=voxd

They have a group buy until April 28th.

Jinx!

Sicklecell666 · Post by **Sicklecell666** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:46 pm

Did you know Vanuard does pads?

s7a5 · Post by **s7a5** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:55 pm

Thanks alot foryour replies I'll give the a try
i wanna get the sound similar to this
http://www.mikseri.net/artistit/?id=19949
Track: Pandorium
Time of Pad i want: 01:07 (Tremolo Pad)

Sounds so nice

Tonmann · Post by **Tonmann** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 12:22 am

s7a5 wrote:Time of Pad i want: 01:07 (Tremolo Pad)

Sounds so nice

Sounds rather a bit cheesy to me, sorry!

Anyway, you can finds such "LoFi" ahhhs on samplesets of older synths, like the Kawais etc.
The effect on the pad in this songs seems to be a pulsed gate and not a real tremolo.

cheers,
Chris

Kim Lajoie · Post by **Kim Lajoie** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 12:25 am

Check out Sonik Synth 2. It's got a stack of sampled vocal tones, as well as other vocal elements to layer and combine. Once you factor in the editing and awesome effects, you can pretty much make any choir pad you want.

Forever,

Kim.

al2k1 · Post by **al2k1** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 12:34 am

IMHO I would think that you can take any female choir pad sound and then treat with effecs to get that kind of sound.

blurk · Post by **blurk** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 12:55 am

shamann wrote:Big Tick's Angelina

I'd like to like Angelina, but playing with the demo I've found that it is really quiet compared to other VSTi plugins (OK, that can be fixed I guess), but more problematic for my tastes is that the "Breath" parameters sounds to me like it's simply adding hiss. Patches that set the breath parameter value to zero, however, sound too subtle and indistictive (again, to my ears - YMMV). So I'm still searching for the perfect vocal/formant synth (i.e. non-sample based).

trappist · Post by **trappist** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 1:40 am

ZynAddSubFX has some interesting vocal pads.

http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/#t07

greendoor · Post by **greendoor** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 1:47 am

Auger by Antti is a freebie wavetable synth that is very musical and capable of vocal-esque pads that evolve over time. You need to find the freebie patch bank that was developed for this.

Andywanders · Post by **Andywanders** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 2:54 am

If you haven't tried it yet, download GalactiX here...

http://www.smartelectronix.com/%7Ealex/

This has some very nice vox sounds, and lots more.