I want choirs and voices for DIMENSION PRO!!!!! ... I dont care if i have to buy it.
Sean, I have no doubt that Nexus is a stellar synth, and it can do much more than just choirs. I haven't seen a demo yet, but a lot of those presets might not be strictly sample-based (as commonly described). You know that I've been bugging you to consider the EW Choirs Vol 13. It's not the greatest set of samples, but it only costs $40-45.
You also know that my typing skillls rival those of a pre-schooler. I just tossed this together with copy/paste, and used the Tencrazy MFX PortDiag plugin to do the octave conversions for me. Start to finish was five minutes, including creating a Classic Choirs folder under Multisamples, dragging in one sample set, and testing it. This is the mapping for the AHH choir in AIFF format, in the order that the samples are organized on the disk:
// ----------------------------------------------------------------
// Classic Choirs AHH.sfz AIFF
// ----------------------------------------------------------------
<region> sample=13-cho00-ahh- a2.aif key=57
<region> sample=13-cho00-ahh- a3.aif key=69
<region> sample=13-cho00-ahh- b2.aif key=59
<region> sample=13-cho00-ahh- b3.aif key=71
<region> sample=13-cho00-ahh- c2.aif pitch_keycenter=48 hikey=48
<region> sample=13-cho00-ahh- c3.aif key=60
<region> sample=13-cho00-ahh- c4.aif pitch_keycenter=72 lokey=72
<region> sample=13-cho00-ahh- d2.aif key=50
<region> sample=13-cho00-ahh- d3.aif key=62
<region> sample=13-cho00-ahh- e2.aif key=52
<region> sample=13-cho00-ahh- e3.aif key=64
<region> sample=13-cho00-ahh- f2.aif key=53
<region> sample=13-cho00-ahh- f3.aif key=65
<region> sample=13-cho00-ahh- g2.aif key=55
<region> sample=13-cho00-ahh- g3.aif key=67
<region> sample=13-cho00-ahh-a#2.aif key=58
<region> sample=13-cho00-ahh-a#3.aif key=70
<region> sample=13-cho00-ahh-c#2.aif key=49
<region> sample=13-cho00-ahh-c#3.aif key=61
<region> sample=13-cho00-ahh-d#2.aif key=51
<region> sample=13-cho00-ahh-d#3.aif key=63
<region> sample=13-cho00-ahh-f#2.aif key=54
<region> sample=13-cho00-ahh-f#3.aif key=66
<region> sample=13-cho00-ahh-g#2.aif key=56
<region> sample=15-cho00-ahh-g#3.aif key=68
// ----------------------------------------------------------------
It's a three-octave choir, but I took the top and bottom notes and stretched them out full-keyboard. Sounds like crap in the extremes, but you'll like them for mangling.
I even tried to 'cheat', and point 'default_path=' to the disk drive, but Rapture and Dimension weren't buying it. If this is too much work, I know someone who's willing to trade that for some drum hit samples.
Don't wait for official choir sets: make them.
Edit: Hehe. Typo.
Also, I hear that there's a homemade underground choir grazing somewhere in a Scottish pasture.
post edited by b rock - 2006/12/08 14:30:12