What on earth are "Ooooh" and "Aaaaah" choirs?

[jimmymus]

I know I want some choir sounds. But I don't really know what I'm looking for.

First what I'm not looking for:
Children

What I am looking for:
I'm looking for more of a scenario. Like..the ultimate scene of any movie. The choir is singing, it's intense, it's loud, it's tragic, it's heartbreaking. Big, full choir. I'm sure people can relate to what I'm talking about. Pick any high-budget movie climax and you have the choir I want.

But what is this "oooh" and "aaaah". In my mind it sounds like I want "aaah" but I really don't know? Someone please lend me a hand here.

[mellotronaut]

I think, you're right: You need the 'aaahs' for this kind of setup. Best is to combine 'aaahs', 'ooohs' and 'uuuhs' and you'll need mixed pickels (gender), a decent reverb and if you don't find a proper sample-library: a dentist.

[Roman Empire]

For the main question, an Oooh choir is one where they sing "oooh", and Aaaah is where they sing "Aaah"

For the other thing, I'm not sure, but I know that many people like "voices of the apocalypse".
Interested in which answers you'll get here - we need a list of good libraries for this purpose.
You'll prolly get alot of response about synth choir vsti's, but from what I understand, that's not what you're looking for...

[james0tucson]

I would simply bribe my church choir (wouldn't take much more than sweets and liquor). Could certainly record the pipe organ tracks at the same time...

[Mutant]

For the other thing, I'm not sure, but I know that many people like "voices of the apocalypse".

True , but i prefer Symphonic Choirs.

[adydub]

I've found Florestan's Ahh Choir soundfont does me well for this sort of thing, despite being tiny (<1mb) and ancient. Whack some reverb on there, play some nice big epic chords and you're off.

I've yet to come across anything that's better for instant choiry gratification.

Perhaps download sfz if you haven't already got a sf2 player, dl the sf2, and see if it's any good for you.

[dougsyo]

If you want to spring for a few bucks, grab Angelic Vocal Pads from http://www.precisionsound.net

I have florestan and papelmedia, and they're good - but AVP and AVP2 are very much my favorites. Right now the bundle of both (available in soundfont, kontakt, and halion) is $75. You can also order subsets if you don't want/need everything.

Doug

[koolkeys]

I have wanted some good choirs also. In the movies, they are often singing actual words, not always in English. Like in Star Wars, John Williams said that they are actually singing another language for their phrases, to get that "feel".

Doesn't one choir have a phrase designer? Is it the VSL ones? Or Symphonic Choirs? Or the Apocolypse ones? I know I've seen it.

I would like to know also what the best choirs are for this purpose. Ooohs and Ahhs are great, and I have those with EWQLSO. Are the more expensive libraries more detailed then just oohs and aahs?

Koolkeys

[DrApostropheX]

You might want to exhume Carl Orff's corpse for that: Lord knows Williams and countless other Hollywood composers have been feasting on it for years.

[jimmymus]

WOW! Lol. I LOVE Voices of the Apocalypse. I want that so bad it's sad. But I would need GigaStudio to use that wouldn't I? I'm currently running Reason =/ A SoundFont would be best but I think that limits me really bad.

[precisionsound]

If you want an airy "sent" of voices in your production. -- 10cc I'm not in love" kind of voices ---, our AVP libraries is probably the best bet, I hope.
If you want more real choirs singing I suggest you look around and maybe the EastWest big choir library would be the right choice.

Lars