Audience Choir

Audience Choir is a special kind of sample library. No professional choirs were recorded here in the studio, but Jacob Collier had the audience sing on his tour in 22 cities around the world. With the help of NI Kontakt (Player is sufficient), you can use these recordings as a flexible instrument. The samples are distributed chromatically across the keyboard, the mod wheel gives you access to the dynamics and the polyphonic aftertouch lets you control the sound, pitch, volume and vocal type. With the integrated Vowel Morph Pad, whose movements can be recorded, you can blend smoothly between vowels such as Aa, Ee, Oo and Mm. A Chord function provides suitable chords and the Triad blend control allows you to switch seamlessly from Major to Minor. The animated interface visualizes the changes. When using a Komplete keyboard, the Lightguide also shows you the different keyboard areas. You can combine the sung vocals with unusual percussion samples of hand clapping, finger snapping and foot stomping. Built-in filters and effects, such as Delay and Reverb are available to customize the sound, and you can also adjust the stereo width.

Verdict

Due to its sound source (audience recordings), Audience Choir offers a very special sound that is somewhere between a professional choir library and characterful recordings from vintage samplers. The well thought-out additional functions of this instrument invite you to experiment and create your own arrangements, with musically interesting and very organic sound results.

Developer: Native Instruments Web: native-instruments.com Price: Freeware

Format: VST,AU,AAX,Standalone