What is that epic chanting called?

[invrse]

I hear time and time again in epic orchestras. Ensembles of people epically chanting to climax, the short staccato attacks. But is there a name for this? And maybe a few samples packs I could invest into that have them? I think we all know what I'm talking about.

[Steven-Polley]

Choir.

[brokendeck]

Gothic?

[wyldfyre1]

i beleive choir is what your looking for.

[Back-From-Purgatory]

As stated above, it's simply a choir... there is no musical term used for a chanting choir as far as I know... So to achieve that sound, you'd need a pretty expensive VST... because most plugins that include choir samples do not include the ability to make words out of those samples.

A few of them do... but as I said... they are also very expensive.

[audixmusic]

Expensive indeed.

http://www.eastwestsamples.com/details.p hp?cd_index=963

I've heard nothing but bad things about the new PLAY interface though.

[Greeksta-69]

Choir chants

[la-yinn]

Somebody suggested this a while back, I haven't been able to try it out myself, but..

You could take a good-sounding regular choir and mix it in with your voice through a vocoder. You can sing the chants yourself and record it yourself. ;)

[itsfoxhall]

At 4/7/09 02:28 AM, audixmusic wrote: Expensive indeed.

http://www.eastwestsamples.com/details.p hp?cd_index=963

I've heard nothing but bad things about the new PLAY interface though.

Fair play, just had a look through the library on the site, and the sounds are awesome. Just a huge pity that they cost so much :(

[DavidOrr]

At 4/7/09 02:28 AM, audixmusic wrote: Expensive indeed.

http://www.eastwestsamples.com/details.p hp?cd_index=963

I've heard nothing but bad things about the new PLAY interface though.

I use the PLAY interface, and I have no problem with it. When it was first released it was pretty buggy, but they've smoothed out any bugs I came across. Symphonic Choirs can sound very good, but it takes a LOT of fine tuning with their photox language editing tools to get it to a presentable stage. Any choirs in my music from 2006+ use the Symphonic Choirs, as I haven't found anything better yet.

[Dimoria]

Gregorian singing.

Gregorian singing is consisted of 1 singer up to 8 . And they are singing in chants.
Don't really remember shit since music in school. But I believe it is that way.
Otherwise just wiki it.

[Darren-M]

At 4/7/09 09:57 PM, Dimoria wrote: Gregorian singing.

Gregorian singing is consisted of 1 singer up to 8 . And they are singing in chants.
Don't really remember shit since music in school. But I believe it is that way.
Otherwise just wiki it.

CRAP you got to gregorian before me.

Enigma does alot of stuff with that

[jrayteam6]

Staccato choirs are tough to get to sound good, but you can do it for free, no words, but stong hits of ahh's are easy. Download Magnus Choir, and find a couple of different soundfont files and turn one or two of them up really high and put a shit ton of reverb on them. Then just adjust your timing on your louder channels to hit really short and sweet and make your softer channels hit longer more drawn out notes, then you have your hits a bit more dynamic.

[HalcyonicFalconX]

At 4/7/09 11:53 PM, jrayteam6 wrote: find a couple of different soundfont files and turn one or two of them up really high and put a shit ton of reverb on them.

Gosh that won't come out good. Too much reverb = B A D

[SymbolCymbal]

do you mean like in the beginning of this?

-Orr- Four Brave Champions, by DavidOrr Type: LoopGenre: Classical

[la-yinn]

Bumped. (Since I'd really REALLY like to know how to get those chants.)

[Back-From-Purgatory]

At 4/8/09 02:31 PM, la-yinn wrote: Bumped. (Since I'd really REALLY like to know how to get those chants.)

Read the whole thread, a link has been posted to a VST that allows you to create the chanting you're looking for.