How does Vangelis get his choir sound?

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I'm talking about the older stuff prior to (iirc) even the Emulator. the CS80 doesn't do it (does it?). Was there an old synth that produced those sounds?

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mellotron?
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vurt wrote: Sun May 08, 2022 4:07 pmmellotron?
I don't know, did he use one?

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no idea, me er really listened to him beyond bladerunner.
but it had a choir and was before the emulator.
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umm... he recorded real life people singing together...
Or perhaps you're referring to a particular track?
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jackoo wrote: Sun May 08, 2022 5:40 pm umm... he recorded real life people singing together...
no one has ever done such a thing!! :o
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ghostwhistler wrote: Sun May 08, 2022 4:02 pm I'm talking about the older stuff prior to (iirc) even the Emulator. the CS80 doesn't do it (does it?). Was there an old synth that produced those sounds?
Roland VP-330 was used extensively by Vangelis, and is all over the Blade Runner soundtrack (the 'bed' strings that run throughout Blade Runner Blues are a great example). The 330 has choir voices as well as strings, but I don't hear them on Blade Runner, but you can hear them used on Soil Festivities and I think Antarctica uses them a bit...

short version: VP-330 was a Vangelis staple for a while there, and has some famous 'simulated choir' sounds in it.

After that he used real singers, often just 3 to 5 total and then made them sound 'bigger' through layering, etc.

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vurt wrote: Sun May 08, 2022 5:43 pm
jackoo wrote: Sun May 08, 2022 5:40 pm umm... he recorded real life people singing together...
no one has ever done such a thing!! :o
Actually,in 1973 Rick Wakeman recorded a choir and put the tapes in his own customised mellotron for his famous 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea recording w/ narration by Vincent Price
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melomood wrote: Mon May 09, 2022 9:22 pm
vurt wrote: Sun May 08, 2022 5:43 pm
jackoo wrote: Sun May 08, 2022 5:40 pm umm... he recorded real life people singing together...
no one has ever done such a thing!! :o
Actually,in 1973 Rick Wakeman recorded a choir and put the tapes in his own customised mellotron for his famous 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea recording w/ narration by Vincent Price
that's the kind of thing id expect from ricky boy. he's a doer not a thinker!
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:hihi:
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