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neonknight

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alternative to Antares Choir Evo... new

#988476 - 20/05/12 09:36 AM

Hi all, this is rather urgent, I am working on a song I have to finish today and I need a plugin to fake a choir using one vocal. I have looked at Antares Choir Evo but it requires Ilok USB key and I don't have that...Is there an alternative?

Thanks!

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BJG145

Joined: 06/08/05
Posts: 2155
Loc: Norwich UK

Re: alternative to Antares Choir Evo... new

[Re: neonknight]
#988487 - 20/05/12 10:51 AM

Doesn't seem to be a lot out there...maybe Waves Ultrapitch or Melodyne. Also just came across something called "Clone ensemble"...

http://www.cloneensemble.com

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neonknight

Joined: 26/10/04
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Re: alternative to Antares Choir Evo... new

[Re: BJG145]
#988492 - 20/05/12 12:30 PM

Quote BJG145:

Doesn't seem to be a lot out there...maybe Waves Ultrapitch or Melodyne. Also just came across something called "Clone ensemble"...

http://www.cloneensemble.com

Thank you! This would indeed work, but there's no Mac version

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A. AuCr

Joined: 12/02/12
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Re: alternative to Antares Choir Evo... new

[Re: neonknight]
#988603 - 21/05/12 03:30 AM

Mult the part to several tracks, treat each one differently. More compression, touch of delay, bit of pitch shift, eq away the fundamental, move one early, panning, octave up, octave down, fifth down, maj or min third up, ride them in and out...

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neonknight

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Re: alternative to Antares Choir Evo... new

[Re: A. AuCr]
#988626 - 21/05/12 08:17 AM

Quote A. AuCr:

Mult the part to several tracks, treat each one differently. More compression, touch of delay, bit of pitch shift, eq away the fundamental, move one early, panning, octave up, octave down, fifth down, maj or min third up, ride them in and out...

I have thought about it and I will give it a try.

Thanks!

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neonknight

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Re: alternative to Antares Choir Evo... new

[Re: neonknight]
#988715 - 21/05/12 01:03 PM

I am at work and cannot test it now, but apparently this could be the solution...

http://www.mu-technologies.com/catalog/muvoice_download.php

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BJG145

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Re: alternative to Antares Choir Evo... new

[Re: neonknight]
#988718 - 21/05/12 01:22 PM

Not cheap is it. Guess you can't go wrong with a 15 day trial though. SOS review here...

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul08/articles/muvoice.htm

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neonknight

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Re: alternative to Antares Choir Evo... new

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#988731 - 21/05/12 02:25 PM

Quote BJG145:

Not cheap is it. Guess you can't go wrong with a 15 day trial though. SOS review here...

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul08/articles/muvoice.htm

Exactly, I will download the trial and see what I can do with it tonight. I wish I found it before I told my friend he's a lousy singer and that I couldn't be bothered to work on his song

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Marcin_Siejka
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Re: alternative to Antares Choir Evo... new

[Re: neonknight]
#988847 - 22/05/12 05:36 AM

Quote neonknight:

I told my friend he's a lousy singer and that I couldn't be bothered to work on his song

+1 for this one, it really made me laugh tho'

(It also remind me once I’ve told the singer to take the gold chains off, because of the noise he was making while jarrateing around the microphone I got "Who da f*** you think you are? White Dr.Dre?" for reply...)

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Soundseed
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Re: alternative to Antares Choir Evo... [Re: neonknight]
#989006 - 22/05/12 06:15 PM

Quote neonknight:

Hi all, this is rather urgent, I am working on a song I have to finish today and I need a plugin to fake a choir using one vocal. I have looked at Antares Choir Evo but it requires Ilok USB key and I don't have that...Is there an alternative?

Thanks!

If its not too late, I do this occasionally... the key is to be patient and keep tracking over and over until you have several dozen tracks, which might be made up of tonic, third, fifth, and an octave either way if you can manage. In Logic to help with pitching the lines, I write the parts and then lock the piano roll editor so the notes can be seen seen while recording. Mute harmony parts - makes it much easier. Don't be over analytic - some pitch deviation and timing imprecision helps the effect. Sing in a few different voices, even go a little silly, it adds to the mash nicely. Dust with a nice reverb and you have a choir: Example here about 35 seconds in, and then a minute later:

http://soundcloud.com/piet-haag/sign-me-up-to-chemikal

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Piet Haag

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