Eric Whitacre Choir

Eric Whitacre Choir Reviews

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Hard-wired to humanity, nothing gets to the heart of music like the human voice – and our most anticipated release to date is a choir that captures the breathtaking range of our most personal musical instrument. Crafted and conducted by Grammy winner Eric Whitacre and showcasing his elite family of singers, this encyclopaedia of the voice will enrich your compositions. With these sounds at your fingertips, you will start to think differently about the human voice. Go beyond the choral cliches of sacred, angelic and apocalyptic, using these sounds to add depth, beauty, grit, emotion, or suspense. Recorded in the widescreen resonance of The Hall at AIR Studios, Eric Whitacre Choir shares the acoustic DNA of Spitfire’s orchestral range and is designed to complement and blend seamlessly with each of these libraries — all presented in our easy to use, award-winning dedicated plugin, including an Evo Grid for instant inspiration. Now available through Rent-to-Own on Splice’s platform. Learn more

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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

It's a bit expensive. Especially because the many microphone placements it had don't actually offer much sonic capabilities. Most of the microphones sound very similar or have no difference at all so it just eats up storage and ram. I'd recommend deleting most of the mic files that aren't useful. when lifting off a key it immediately cuts off the choir and doesn't let the stage they were recorded on be heard. I haven't been able to find a way to fix this. The altos have some strange tonal quality about them for some patches. not too noticable but it sounds like a mixing error. I don't think it's worth it's price. They need to make a cheaper option with less mic placements or people will continue to buy other choirs. It's hard to get a sense of intensity from this choir as it seems to be more for eery/peaceful music? The legato patches do sound semi realistic but there is no variety in the transitions. Which is what you'd expect to get for paying $600. There is nothing smart about the plugin. you can't play legato plugins at the same time like VSL so either use the less realistic long note patches or make multiple instances of each group (soprano, alto,tenor,bass). But overall this is a decent choir. I'm critical because of it's price but objectively looking at it it is a good choir plugin. Works well with large ensembles especially and most of the other choir plugins around today are incredibly unrealistic and nonody puts much time into them like they do for string sections or solo strings. Do I recommend you buy this? No, unless if you're rich and can blow a few hundred here and there, or if you're an idiot like me. But objectively it is a good choir.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

From epic to beautifully haunting

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

My general impression, about this unusual choral instruments, is definitely positive. Nevertheless, I am deterred from assigning five stars because of the specific quality of the library, which defines its biggest strengths and weaknesses at the same time, making it perfectly catered for certain usages and hardly useful for others. While *playing* the Eric Withacre Choir can be a revealing experience, if you look at it as an innovative and sophisticated pad instrument, the same cannot easily be said if you intend to use it as a tool for rendering real choral compositions. This depends mainly on some embedded aesthetic factors of the instrument itself, which I do not deem related with the software architecture of the plug-in itself. Primarily, the choral sections are quite unbalanced, with sopranos and basses noticeably weaker than tenors and altos, both in timber and volume and despite any adjustments to the mic levels of the respective ranges. In the second place, the essential lack of shorter articulations with a crisp attack make it almost impossible to write rhythmically animated music, or to lay out intricate counterpoint in a convincing fashion. I guess the these characteristics of the library are somehow connected with the particular taste and artistic ethos of the namesake composer. Although this is perfectly understandable from a commercial standpoint, still it poses serious limitations for the potential applications of this otherwise sonically gorgeous VST instrument.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Absolutely a MUST-HAVE for musicians looking for a REAL choir. HUGE fan of Eric Whitacre and was totally amazed that they made an Evo from his choir!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

The sound instantly creates that beautiful heart tickling vastness like love at first sight. The only instrument I think, they say, God put his name to is here and when human voices sing together like this in a great space with the best equipment. Boom 💥

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Simply stunning and easy to use as well Highly recommend!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Stellar quality, stunning performances, Sound interface. So good. Spitfire for the win.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I am a massive Spitfire fangrl, unsurprisingly I adore this product. I have only just bought it and as such am still investigating it. It's a great deal bigger and more complex than at first glance. There are two engines, the Choir and the EVO grid, both are very easy to learn and use after a couple of hours. SPOILER ALERT: They sound beautiful. I'll write a better review when Ive used it a bit more.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

I wished it worked on Mac M1 chips natively because isn't being detected. I did try the workaround downloading .zip files and using the terminal and that didn't work. I can wait for an update though.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

it's so good I wish there was a Multi Track function.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Exceptional quality choir samples … Massive download size though …

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

In the middle of a big orchestral album project, I desperately needed a "sotto voce" English choir sound for some background vocals. Having tried some of the more-used choirs in the sample library universe, I was always left wanted. There just wasn't enough nuance to the sounds. With the deadline looming, I decided to spring for the new Eric Whitacre Choir library and - voila! - problem solved. Most useful were the legato voices which perfectly transition from note to note and make choir vocal "leaps" super believable. I'm very glad I took the leap with this library.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Infinite possibilities...endless inspiration comes out of these voices.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

This product finally convinced me that the power and emotion of live vocal performance can indeed be translated into a DAW.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

I did a lot of careful research before picking out a choral library, but this one sold me with its unbelievable legato. Sure enough, when I purchased it and started using the library, it was exactly the kind of quality I was hoping for. I do still sorta wish that syllables were a patch of some sort, but it’s honestly so minor when compared to how good this library is.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

This is a good product. Soft, beautiful, really good for producing hypnotic atmospheres. Using this and soft piano is a match made in heaven.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Eric Whitacre Choir is a thing of great beauty! The legatos are realistic and responsive and the "longs" are just something to loose yourself in if, like me, you're a bit of junky for sensuous pad type sounds! The only minor gripe is the installer app makes a meal of anything but default paths, but I think this is being addressed.