Hollywood Choirs vs Symphonic Choirs

[dko22]

Fortunately, you can run the sync process on all four voices at the same time if you arm all four instances of Play, so it only takes one total play-through of the piece to sync all voices.

Ah,that's useful! I got the impression from the manual you could only do one at once.

 

[dko22]

Just a quick summary on the comparison between SC and HC after about a day with the latter. I used a fairly short Mass I'd previously written which only had a fairly modest amount done to it using SC. Out of the box, it's clearly better with HC and I'd definitely recommend that for people who simply don't have days or weeks to fine-tune everything. Gives a passionate and dramatic approach which I like but for more intimate music, small sections or boys choir then you'll want SC as well. They are different enough to justify both at the current sale prices. There are those who complain about lack of specialist techniques like legato or staccato and it is a fair point but quite how you'd get all this into Wordbuilder, I've no idea. Remember that no-one else has tried to so what EWQL has achieved here so some allowances should be made for the deficiencies -- and there most certainly are some -- here.

Secondly, I've come across a few technical oddities and annoyances regarding the differences between Play and Opus versions for both choirs which perhaps others can confirm or deny. I'd expected the output to be much the same but in fact it doesn't seem to be.
1. Opus provides more "jerky" output which seems mainly to be caused by so far, inexplicable changes in dynamic on adjacent notes particularly. I would put it down to edits made but the same does not occur with PLAY 6. On the other hand,
2. You don't seem to be able to adjust individual channels in the mixer in Play but you can in Opus. This means you can more easily compensate for overall internal bad balance in the SC ranges in Opus but as this isn't necessary in HC, Opus only bring disadvantages it seems.

 

[dhmusic]

This means you can more easily compensate for overall internal bad balance in the SC ranges in Opus but as this isn't necessary in HC, Opus only bring disadvantages it seems.

Except of course when you type "s" and a maraca+rainstick ensemble inexplicably materializes for a single *shake*, randomly dispersed throughout the stereo field

 

[khari]

Is there a place or forum where users have shared words or phrases you could copy or maybe even import?