Can the Virus make choir pads like this (audio link inside!)
 

Hi,

I don't have a Virus synth yet (still waiting for the TI release), but I was wondering if the Virus can make what I call "choir pads" like in following song:

Listen here: http://www.astralmusic.com//ItemMult...17781_2_01.wvx. The track is "Lange Ft Kirsty Hawkshaw - Sincere for you (Thrillseekers Mix)". Skip forward to 2:00 and then you will hear some kind of choir pad sound that comes in!

Can this Virus make this, does it even have these kind of sounds as presets or should I get a Triton or Fantom for those kind of pads?!

If the Virus has these sounds as presets or they can be programmed, could you PLEASE post some audio demos as example?! I would really appreciate it alot!! Thanks very much!!

Cheers, Mike.

a sample based module would do this best.
a triton+virus setup is also a good idea if you can afford it.

If you have reason, there are some NN-XT choir patches. Won't sound half as good as the thrillseekers' sound tho.

You could make choir pads or any formants with the virus, use the spectral waves (esp 15,16,39,45), bandpass filters in parallel mode, verbs, chorus and carefull adsr. Modulate the osc pitch for vibrato :)

Hi,

Isn't it so that the pad in the above streaming audio link is a synth choir pad rather then a a real choir? What do you think? If so, isn't there anybody here who could recreate that kind of sound with the Virus and post an audio demo here?! Doesn't the Virus have these kind of synth choir pads in its presets?

Anyway, I would REALLY appreciate it if people could actually post some audio examples of either presets or self-made sounds like this cause at my local store they don't have a Virus synth right now (they're waiting for the TI).

PS: if finding upload space is the problem, just let me know in your reply.

Thanks to all who want to help with this!! :)

Hey dance123, I traded my indigo II for the TI.

Hm i tried making a choir patch using the instructions from Tranzash, and it didnt turn out quite as i had expected :(

Anyone have an example patch?

If you need amazing pad/choir sounds then check out >>

http://www.spectrasonics.net/librari...honyvoices.php

but also check out their 'Atmosphere' soft synth. Amazing.....

DS

Tritons are crappy on modern standards. Fatom X or Motif ES is the way to go. Everyone supporting Tritons will be lynched.

You shouldn't expect any brilliant results from synth choirs. Afterall synth choirs are synth choirs like synth strings are synth strings.

Hmm... I listened to the track. I couldn't hear any choirs. Only a soft choirlike pad. Maybe a layered pad of a sampled choir and an analog pad. Should be really easy to do. Basic stuff.

Every studio should have all three Spectrasonics plugins. And why is that? Because there are no bad sounds in those sample sets.

Hey Techno_7, You could activate all 3 osc, detune, unison 2, oscillators with different semitones and about those spec waves go through it to fit the right one. For nice choirs and formants, they recomend 2 to 3 bandpass filters. :)

Hey,

Is the TI already available (I thought everybody was still waiting for that)?!

Anyway, could you and anybody else PLEASE post some audio examples of synth choir pads (like in that Thrillseeker mix)?! Doesn't matter if it are presets or self-made sounds. Thing is they don't have a Virus model at my local store (waiting for TI), so I would really appreciate it if people could actually post audio examples!!

NOTE: If finding upload space is a problem, just let me know in your reply!

Thanks! :)

use albino2 to make choirs, it has spectral waves, envelopes per osc and you can have up to 4 serial filters (which you can set to BP), i guess it is enough to simulate a choir.

This is a useful resource here for the formant values for the bandpass filters to create specific "vowels." Can be pretty much applied to any synth.

http://www.marksmart.net/sounddesign...oirsounds.html

I like Absynth3 with the multiple resonators effect applied to 3 oscs in parallel (using nearly any vocal-like waveform but you can import your own.) Set each one to one of each bandpass filter, slightly detune everything and stack them to unison 8 voices and you can get some really deep choir pads.

You can take a mono single cycle waveform of your own voice saying nearly anything and turn it into a 100+ voice female choir. :) Fun!

I'll post an example for you Dance. Might not be too similar but will see. I'll do a quick bit with my voice in Absynth and some bandpass filters + resonators.

Thanks! Please post an audio example with some info how you made it! Hope some others could do this aswell! Can't this be done with the Virus by the way?!

I'm sure it can, don't have it yet still waiting on release day.. lol :)

I have been experimenting a little today and got some choirlike sounds (some of them actually ok sounding) out of my Virus C but i could?t hit anything that reminded me of the one in the link you posted :?

http://pdc.me.uk/temp/voxxy_pad.mp3

Not an exact match by any stretch of the imagination but you get the idea.

XV-3080 provides the choir sample (pushed up the high mid-range for the breathy texture) and my Virus B provides the under-lying synth pad which is just a filtered 'Rank 1 Supersaw' kind of patch.
I don't have time to recreate the trademark Thrillseekers pad patch!

Choir
 

Let's get back to this discussion on where it started with:
how to get a choir out of a Virus?

samples and other Synth patches are fine, but the challenge is to get it out of any Virus?

Any thoughts?

regards

Richard (newby)

Sorry, I can't help, using my FS1R for choirs.