Among the many vocalists we sampled for this are Roger Manning (formerly of Jellyfish, Beck, Imperial Drag...) and Jason Scheff (lead singer of the band Chicago). There are also some British singers, French and Italian opera singers and American Rock singers that do a lot of sessions and gigs in LA and even Hip Hop DJ Beatboxers. There's also a guy who sounds a lot like Jon Anderson and Roger Hodgson and another guy who sounds a lot like Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel... Some nice textures in there beyond the typical generic oohs and ahhs. For the price you can't lose.eDrummist wrote:I have a question regarding the "Vocal Collection" multi-sample library. I'm looking for something for rock background vocals -- kind of Beatle-esque oohhs,ahhss and laas background vocals.
I remember Squids once talking about recording a session a long time ago with, I believe it was, former members of Jellyfish to make this kind of library. I was hoping Squids or someone who has this library could give some insights as to whether this library has those samples and point me to a relevant demo, if one exists? And if this library is not appropriate, is there another SR library that fits the bill? (FTR, I have searched eSoundz carefully before posting this question.)
Thanks,
eDrummist
We are going to eventually release a massive vocal product for Infinite Player which has these singers discrete so you can mix in as many Rogers and Jasons as you want... and the other singers I mentioned. We might do a version of that for ST at some point as well... since it could be a good one with Stretch. But, for now, it is being developed in Kontakt format but the release date is unknown and I am forbidden to predict anymore since my ratio of incorrect projections is just too high... I can only tell you that we've been collecting vocal samples for YEARS with the intention to release an elaborate one with key switching syllables and sustains etc. In fact, we have quite a bit of choir material from the Miroslav archives that we own and at some point that will be released as part of this massive vocal thing I'm talking about... but it will be hundreds of dollars instead of like $10 in this so hardly apples with apples. In other words, definitely get this one - worth having IMO!
