If you want to get more detailed and varied with phrase building, then you may want to consider other options.

if all you have is the Ark choirs, you are very well set for most of your choir needs. A Berlin original which inspired us to preserve all its strength, greatness and bold exceptionalism in a monumentally powerful collection to bring it back into the latest cinematic soundtrack productions. But that can be remedied with some creative processing and/or layering.īut bottom line, in response to the OP. Orchestral Tools Metropolis Ark 1 v1.2 KONTAKT METROPOLIS ARK 1 is inspired by a cinematic monument from 1927 - The first ever epic science fiction motion picture of our time. I'd say the only knock against it is the overall sound being a bit 'church-choiry', meaning it's rather intimate and not as epic sounding as the Ark choirs. Strezov Sampling has become my first choice for choir and percussion libraries which often play a big part in what I write.

But now that I have it, I'm finding it really impressive. Play over 265 million tracks for free on SoundCloud. I really only got Tutti Vox because of the amazingly deep discount during Sonokinetic's holiday sale, and wasn't expecting to get much use out of it. Stream Into the Nebula (Official Metropolis Ark 1 Demo - Lib Only) by Benjamin Botkin on desktop and mobile. And it also has spoken phrases and vocal effects.

In addition to the basic collection of single syllables, it also has 2 and 4 syllable words, which can add a lot of character and variety to phrases.

Not wanting to spend a lot of money on a choir (aside from those included in the Arks), I've mostly relied on Soundiron's Olympus and Requiem choirs, which have robust phrase-building and a lot of flexibility.īut then, last month I got Sonokinetic's Tutti Vox, and wow! If you're into phrase-building, it's definitely a cut above. The Ark choirs sound gorgeous, but the limited random syllable selection can start to sound repetitive, and the differences between the syllables are not all that pronounced.

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