8dio Requiem Professional

[Kerrie Gingrich]

hellothis is a great quesion because there is a lot of vocal library

if you want a big epic choir with sequencer, phrase editor it will cost money and you have 8dio lacrimosa, storm choir 2 from strezov sampling, oceania from performance sample, mars from soundiron and EW symphonic or hollywood choir , and the big dominus from fluffy audio, these are for me the best and huge library to have it cost a lot but you have a lot of possibilities and powerfull choir under your hand

if you have less money, 8 dio has requiem that is not bad, you can find also

with soundiron library you will find mercury micro and olympus element that cost each less than 100$, sound great but not so many possibilities

soundiron requiem light, mercury symphonic boychoir and venus sound great but for me must be doubled by another one

Strezov Sampling has also great choir library with Freyja, Rhodope, wotan that cost less than 250$ and arva children choir for nearly 300$ but children choir is very amazing when you mixe up girls and boys choir together wow fantastic.

I have been looking up and listening overviews of choir plugins whole day and my brain is slowly losing the ability to decide. It is really hard to pick one. What I really want is to have the basic vowels like aah, ohs, and hums, a word builder with latin syllables. It doesnt have to create complex words, it is only to make the choir sing something more realistic than just ohs and ahs Also, I aim for both staccatos and legatos. I want epic mixed choir.

I know there are better for higher price, there will always be a correlation between the quality and the price, I understand that. But these three are affordable for me. I guess there is no one who would just pick one of them for me?

I might as well wait for some massive sale, but I am actually not sure how to keep track of them? There was huge sale from NI back in August, they sold huge bundle of choirs for just 179, I hate myself for missing that

Well let me say it this way: I have got 8Dio Requiem, Liberis, Lacrimosa, EWQL Symphonic Choirs + VOTA, Soundiron Mercury lite, Performance Samples Oceania, Bestservice Mystica & Cantus, Fluffy Audio Dominus and Strezov Sampling Storm Choir I & II Complete, Tropar, Arva, Wotan, Freyja and Rhodope II.

8Dio Liberis also had a very nice sound and I used the vowel legato and FX quite often in the past - the problem with the limited phrasebuilder was the same as in Requiem Pro. Here an example how nice the vowel legato worked:

From my other choir libraries I especially liked Bestservices / Tarilontes Mystica Female (medieval) Womens Choir which had very nice legato. It also had limitations but for a more ancient sound without legato (which I needed in many medieval / celtic inspired tracks) this is exactly what you need and for that it is stil my library to go:

Medieval Sacred Demo

Later I purchased 8Dios Lacrimosa mostly because of Michal Cieleckis awesome demo and the marketing, but I have to confess that the product really disappointed me. What I liked where the fast Syllab combinations, but the normal legato was absolutely not of my liking and I also found that due the totally excessive number of singers the choir sound looses all its nice details which makes it sound even weaker than a choir with just 20 singers - its simple psycho-acoustics.

Now here I found out about Strezov Sampling and their Storm Choir I and II aswell about their Tropar. After listening to the great SC II demo by Adam Hochstatter I purchased SC II and was quite happy with it. Later i went for SC I once it was on Sale at I think vstbuzz and found out that I liked SC I even more than SC II because it works so well just right out of the box. You can write fast passages (not as fast as with Oceania but stil very fast) and also lyrical passages. A true timesaver and a very helpful and inspiring tool. The auto-syllab option aswell as the stacking was very nice. I am stil using this one. Here is a track that i have written featuring SC I for a micro-job (the solo voices in that track are the ethereal voice from Tarilontes Forest Kingdom II and ERA II Vocal Codex).

After that I purchased Wotan and was really blown away by its great sound and usability. Here is a track where I tested it on different criteria: Playability, sound standalone, sound in orchestral context, word building (lending the consonants from SC II).

Because I liked Wotan that much I decided to go for Freyja and Arva aswell - especially after listening to Oschmanns, Raynauds and Hochstatters Demos for these libraries. I didnt regret these purchases. Maybe expensive but very, VERY NICE! I also purchased Rhodope II because for ethnic stuff this is just a nice alternatice to the normal sounding choirs. Its just more ancient and raw with its throat singing style tressenet (or how that is written).

For ecclesiastic and sacred / classical projects I decided to get Fluffy Audios Dominus . I havent got a track written that I can show but damn - very nice and for this kind of project just incredible. Here is a demo by Morten Lauridsen.

The last choir that I purchased was Performance Sampless Oceania . While this choir IMO has got quite some flaws it works very well for what it is made for: Expressive and very fast and energetic singing right out of the box. So even I was not ULTRA impressed I respect that choir a lot because it is very strong in fast passages and its high amount of vibrato can really kick ass in special situations.

So my final conclusion on choirs is:

I am not using Mercury, Liberis and Lacrimosa at all and Cantus extremely seldom. I very rarely use EWQL Symphonic Choirs (besides I really have to write lyrics. I know the engine and vst very well and know how to program with it. I stil try to avoid it because IMO the sound is not up to date anymore and it takes too much time working with it until everything sounds ok), Storm Choir II (even its good, but for quick writing i prefer SC I and for the more complex stuff i prefer the next generation choirs Freyja, Arva and Wotan). I am using Mystica often when it comes to medieval / celtic and I am also not using Oceania a lot - just if i need these fast passages or something that cuts through the mix when having a large orchestra performing.

All the demos in this set were primarily composed with Requiem Pro by www.8dio.com - all the technical demos were composed by Troels Folmann from www.8dawn.com _product=requiem-proFollow us on Facebook: , us on Twitter: us on YouTube:

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