Choirs, Vocals

Hi.
I've been looking for choir library that contains slides of notes, both male and female.
And unusual effects. Omnisphere has good collection of choirs but i can't afford it now.
You probably know that Dimension Pro contains preset "Ahh Female" in Vocals section. A very good preset, are there libraries that contain more sounds like this? And musical phrases with/without words.
Thanks for advice.

Kostas, do you have Kontakt? There are a number of free and cheap "oohs and aahs" type libraries out there. Slides have to be done with the pitch wheel, though.

You can pick up Miroslav Philharmonik inexpensively now, and it has some quite useable choirs. Again, just your typical ooh aah mmm and ooh-aah though.

Omnisphere does indeed have some great-sounding choirs, but they're mostly the same old oohs and aahs as well. (Here's a live track that I added Omnisphere choirs to in post-production. Choirs come in at 2:30.  Multiple samples were used to get the articulations.)

An absolutely fab new choir library (yea, I've got it) is the Storm Choir from Strezov Sampling

www.strezov-sampling.com

It incorporates many different phrases and allows you to manipulate the start times of the samples to gain even more.  Very cinematic...very good.

I believe it's around $150 semolians...or was when I bought it.

Speak of the devil, I just received an email from Sound Iron for the update to the Micro. So the $19.99 is for the new version.

"The new Olympus Micro 2.0 includes 140 Samples and is 207 MB installed, with 24 feature-packed nki presets (12 K4 & 12 K5). This library requires the full version of Kontakt. Sorry, the free Kontakt Player does not support Olympus Micro. It's now priced at $19.99, but as an owner of 1.0, you can Click Here to get the full upgrade for only $9.00!

I want that Storm library that Yoropal has. He's still all excited about it- and that means it must be good.  So, I'm saving my pennies.


Also, you guys.... remember that SoundIron Micro Choir some of bought into? I see it has a nine dollar upgrade with some notable new features that might actually make it useful-maybe.  Let us know if any of you are taking the nine dollar plunge, and what you think. It is now 19.99 dollars to those interested in a small sample of  Olympus. http://www.soundiron.com/.../choirs/olympus-micro/


Full Chorus Articulations

Full Men’s and Women’s divisi sections, with freely adjustable note ranges 100BPM Latin “Dominum” chromatic Poly-sustain chants w/ release syllable 140BPM Russian “Raduisya” chromatic Poly-sustain chants w/ release syllable “Oo” pp vowel sustains w/ releases “Ah” ff vowel sustains w/ releases “Oo” and “Ah” staccatos Use the Offset, Attack & Release controls to shape your own syllables, sustains and phrases Automatic polysustain host tempo-synching for Kontakt 5 presets. Swell control allows real-time dynamic performance shaping. Independent Release timing and Release Volume controls, to control room decay Simulated divisi & dual-layer polyphonic legato with customizable controls Independent Pan controls for each divisi section Bonus Special FX presets for creating atmospheric pads and soundscapes. Per-section and per-layer polyphonic legato with adjustable speed, interval-range and gliss intensity 10 Special FX impulses integrated into the interface to create your own effects 10 Natural Environmental Reverb Impulses, including Halls, Cathedrals, Churches, Studios, Bundkers, Garages and more. 3-band parametric EQ with sweepable mid Master Full Ensemble Preset with independent controls for men’s and women’s sections Divisi Men’s and Divisi Women’s Section presets, with dual layer blending, crossfading and phrase morphing 5 Bonus Atmospheric FX presets

Unfortunately, the free and cheap Kontakt libraries won't work with the Kontakt Player. Any libraries that work in the free player have to be licensed with Native Instruments, who demands very high fees which greatly inflate the price of the libraries. You might want to think about getting the full Kontakt, which will expand your options - including making your own libraries, which is fun.

I remember looking at the Olympus Micro Choir last year when it was released. It generated a lot of buzz at the time, because the SoundIron choirs are among the best there is. The buzz died down quickly when people realized how limited the library really was: it sang one word - "dominum". Sang it beautifully, though. By carefully adjusting the attack and offset controls you could extract the syllables from "dominum" and get "do", "oh" and "ooh". I passed on it. Even at 10 bucks I couldn't see I'd ever use it. The new version apparently adds a chant, some Russian word.

At any rate, you won't be able to use it without full Kontakt, as is the case with all the inexpensive libraries.

This is well worth considering.

Not only do you get the choirs (which the gold & Platinum versions DON'T have) but you also get a full orchestra:

http://www.bestservice.de...silver_complete/en-gbp

BTW Strezov is giving away 2 copies of Storm free.
He's given one out already. 
https://www.facebook.com/StrezovSampling