Excuse my ignorance, please. What is the difference between the Akai and Roland formats for Symphony of Voices?

I want to thank all of you including Akshara, Einstein, etc for giving me advise on the choir programs. I am thinking seriously of purchasing the Symphony of Voices and maybe later the The Voices of the Apocalypse on the information that you gave me. I'm looking forward to using it in my compositions. My style of music is more in the classical and middle of the road, impressionistic, romatic,etc. I hope that these vocals will help express my own feelings that I will put into it. I have scored one movie already. The film was a small independent feature and did not get to much exposure. I would like to try my wits at a more successful film. We'll see. In the meantime, I really love what I am doing as far as my own compostions are concerned ( it is not my major source of income). The first person that I want to please is myself. Whatever happens after that is up for grabs, people's appreciation of it or money wise.

Marty

As to the VOTA license, it says that you may not use them in Motion Picture Advertising in the USA, except where the ad music is taken from the movie. Not that restrictive for me, but I agree that this kind of license, when found only after opening the package, is a nasty surprise. Kind of like finding that the mp3 encoding in Sonar is only a demo!

As I recall, one (if not both) have rather strong use limitations with either television or soundtrack albums.

SoV has one license catch - it must be credited in the liner notes for an audio only or soundtrack release. Like this...

Vocal Samples courtesy of Spectrasonics' "Symphony of Voices"

Film and TV productions don't require the credit unless it's a soundtrack album.

Also, you personally must be credited on the project that the library is used on. In other words, it can't be used on a studio or label project that isnt' yours, or that you didn't work on. The library is licensed to you only.

Doesn't matter though... the library is well worth it.

Excuse my ignorance, please. What is the difference between the Akai and Roland formats for Symphony of Voices?

Roland format is specific to the S-700 and XV series of samplers/playback devices, and cannot be read by Akai samplers. While most Roland samplers can import or recognize Akai formatted samples, they do not recognize any special performance setups in Akai format.

Roland sample playback devices like the XV-5080 have special Performance and Patch data that is specially programmed and independent of the sample waverform data - the Akai version doesnt' have any of this. Also the library was created and designed specifically for the Roland format, and then converted into the Akai format.

I have several Akai libraries here, and the sample waveforms can be loaded just fine. However, with my Roland libraries there is much more than just the waveforms loaded, with special Performance and crossfade velocity layouts prebuilt. With the Akai libraries, I have to load the waves and then build the Performances from scratch, which is somewhat time consuming.

If you have a Roland sampler, then definitely get the Roland version. If not, or if using Vsampler of some other multi-format sampler, then go for the Akai version. Fwiw, the Roland version cannot be recognized by a PC without special coversion tools.

Hope that helps.

Thanks, Akshara. That helps a great deal. I'll be using VSampler so I guess the Akai format is the way to go.

FWIW I thought the Aragorn avatar was very cool and quite befitting someone with your depth of knowledge. I suppose it was the pipe...

Akshara

Excuse my ignorance, please. What is the difference between the Akai and Roland formats for Symphony of Voices?

Roland format is specific to the S-700 and XV series of samplers/playback devices, and cannot be read by Akai samplers. While most Roland samplers can import or recognize Akai formatted samples, they do not recognize any special performance setups in Akai format.

Roland sample playback devices like the XV-5080 have special Performance and Patch data that is specially programmed and independent of the sample waverform data - the Akai version doesnt' have any of this. Also the library was created and designed specifically for the Roland format, and then converted into the Akai format.

I have several Akai libraries here, and the sample waveforms can be loaded just fine. However, with my Roland libraries there is much more than just the waveforms loaded, with special Performance and crossfade velocity layouts prebuilt. With the Akai libraries, I have to load the waves and then build the Performances from scratch, which is somewhat time consuming.

If you have a Roland sampler, then definitely get the Roland version. If not, or if using Vsampler of some other multi-format sampler, then go for the Akai version. Fwiw, the Roland version cannot be recognized by a PC without special coversion tools.

Hope that helps.

 
Hi Akshara, excuse my ignorance. If I don't have Roland nor Akai sampler but simply a keyboard controller and using Pro-tools or Logic. Am I able to use SOV? Should get SOV Roland or SOV Akai format?

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