But many possible buyers might be happier if East West produced a best of at a quarter of the size and cost. If you want a nocompromise choir in a box, this is it. And although there's a lot on offer here, the high price will make many think twice about it. For everyone else, compromises will be necessary.
If you compose film scores for a living you can afford to dedicate an entire ultra-spec PC just to this one package.
The bleeding edge system requirements for the full multis push this well into professional territory. Piling on the effects built into Kompakt helps add some warmth and depth and can easily produce a drifty church sound, which is probably what most people will want from this set. The basses are gutsy and the sopranos are suitably ethereal, but trying to swap those around can be harder. Otherwise, the tone is variable, tending towards the cool and clean rather than the warm and fat. There are also some multis where sample levels don't seem to have been matched entirely accurately.
Some of the soloist samples have a little more pitch wobble than you'd really want. Imagine typing words into your computer, in any language, and hearing a world class Symphonic Choir sing those words in any key (s) you play 'live' on your keyboard controller Well imagine no more, thats exactly what this revolutionary 'award-winning' virtual instrument does. Most important of all is the sound, and this is mixed. East West Symphonic Choirs Platinum v1.0.9 - DECiBEL. But setting an entire performance of something big and detailed would take a very long time indeed, so it's happiest working with short phrases and creating pseudo-verbal atmospheres.įanatics can also control the switching in real time using various performance-based MIDI tricks: a neat option, but one that will take even a skilled keyboardist quite a bit of practice to learn. WordBuilder can shuffle timings, switches, slurs and crossfades almost ad lib, so the potential for good results is certainly there. In practice, creating a realistic result is incredibly time consuming and requires almost endless patience and fine tuning. In theory you can make both choir and soloists sing any word or phrase. This plugs in between the notes recorded in your sequencer and the Symphonic Choir Kompakt multi, and adds extra switching information that picks consonants and vowels from the sample bank and tries to splice them together. Sing alongĪlso included in the package is a unique tool called WordBuilder. And if you don't have the monster music PC of your dreams you will still be able to create a customised close/full/ surround mix by freezing each line in your sequencer and setting the balance at mix time. Fortunately, relatively lightweight versions of each ensemble are available. You won't get much change out a 10K rpm disk unless it's set up to do fast RAID. The ultimate Multis include up to nine simultaneous streams per note.