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What is the best way to make background pad-ish choir sounds? Is it usually sample based? If so are you aware of any good packs or can you upload some of your own? Or do you recommend the synthetic route? If so do you have any tips for how to design this type of sound?

Some examples of what I'm looking for:

1) The classic bed intruder song. Choir sounds come in at around 1:40.



2) Courtesy of wub's twitter (many thanks for a great find wub!). Choir sounds come in around 1:00.



These next two are less of a choir and more of a single voice. Thought I'd include em anyway though cause they're great songs

For synthesis, I'd go for saw waves slightly detuned, with a high rate but low depth vibrato (and maybe the same high speed low depth on a lfo on pitch of both osc), loads of stereo width and drowned in reverb.

you can make your own choir with antares choir (vocal multiplier).
watch from 1:00. this thing is amazing

The synth ones Ive heard all sounded really bad. This one sounds ridiculously badass http://www.bigfishaudio.com/detail.html?512243 but its 17gig of samples and I'm on limited bandwidth

^ not to mention it costs 800 bucks. @snappy - is that shit free?

I'm surprised nobody's made a hide-yo-kids-hide-yo-wife joke yet

Tonehammer Requiem is another alternative, if you want to go sample-based. That doesn't allow you to duplicate vocals for background, though.

frenchboy wrote:The synth ones Ive heard all sounded really bad. This one sounds ridiculously badass http://www.bigfishaudio.com/detail.html?512243 but its 17gig of samples and I'm on limited bandwidth

Yea dude, you were seriously gonna pay 800 bucks for that, but are worried about limited bandwidth? If you can afford a sample pack that costs shy of a grand, what's the bandwidth issue?

Seriously...though...just get some vinyls of church choirs. I get them for less than a dollar at the second hand store. Nice texture to them too.

fragments wrote:

frenchboy wrote:The synth ones Ive heard all sounded really bad. This one sounds ridiculously badass http://www.bigfishaudio.com/detail.html?512243 but its 17gig of samples and I'm on limited bandwidth

Yea dude, you were seriously gonna pay 800 bucks for that, but are worried about limited bandwidth? If you can afford a sample pack that costs shy of a grand, what's the bandwidth issue?

Seriously...though...just get some vinyls of church choirs. I get them for less than a dollar at the second hand store. Nice texture to them too.

nah I would never buy it. Maybe when I'm rich.

Magnus Choir Vst


http://syntheway.com/choir.htm

Try using a mellatron. They're bad ass. Kontakt has a mellatron sample pack you can try it with the demo version. There might be other ones as well not sure on that. It is neat though for sure

frenchboy wrote: nah I would never buy it.

there are plenty of truly free options that don't require a five-finger discount, try those out first instead eh? I'm sure if you go on freesound.org that will sort you. And, yes, I also love mellotron choirs. I'm sure there are some free samples out there some where...in fact there is tweak bench tapeworm, free mellotron VST. I don't use it all the time as it's a bit limited, but it has a great sound IMO.

charles1 wrote:@snappy - is that shit free?

you wish

It seems like you have to pay for good voice sounds unfortunately. Kontakt + samples and you're adding up.. I use this: http://www.spectrasonics.net/products/l ... voices.php

Sounds amazing! But for the amount I use it the price probably isn't right. Still, need a nice sounding choir, load it up and play away. There's great variation in the oohs and aahs and in kontakt you can morph em together and twist em to sound natural.

You'll hear it in the tune in my sig at the start and in this one as well, very subtly throughout. Soundcloud

fragments makes a good point about freesound though, be creative! record yourself making some ooh and aah noises and map that to a sampler. I find the key to realistic sounds is a slow attack and long release so you get that natural decay. lots of reverb can help smooth it out.. layer with a nice pad and you're set.

some of my favourite choir-ey sounds in this tune, forever an inspiration.

you paid $500 for some choir samples?

all those choir sounds you showed are synthetic......sylenth1 and alchemy are very good IMO at creating that kind of sound......the mala one is a straight preset in alchemy.....check out the tune in my sig, i used alchemy for the intro choir and then i have a real choir sampled in the breakdown