Hi, for the first time I work on a choir piece, based on a most melodic Beethoven cantata fragment - a version for choir and piano (the first 45 seconds and interlude at 1:22 - 45 by Beethoven) and a version with orchestra - what do you think? Are there better choir voices which you can recomend?
https://www.gerdprengel.de/Beeth_UNV19_Cantata_piano.mp3 https://www.gerdprengel.de/Beeth_UNV19_Cantata.pdf
https://www.gerdprengel.de/Beeth_UNV19_Cantata_orch.mp3
Gerd
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If you want your choir to sing the text you've written, then the only options as far as I'm aware are EWQL Symphonic Choirs or Hollywood Choirs using Wordbuilder. Alternatively, Cantamus can process a Music XML file for you on their website for a purer, more chamber-like result of surprisingly good quality but you have no control and there are one or two bugs. I've posted works using both approaches but mainly use one of the two EastWest libraries.
Your .pdf doesn't have any text yet, though so I'm not entirely clear what it is you're setting? There are plenty of libraries which have a few phrases or consonants of which Fluffy Audio's Dominus is one of the best - a friend uses this for choral mockups.and it sounds decent. Many libraries are of course primarily orientated towards film scoring so often not what you want. Orchestral Tools have a wide variety of choral libraries in different styles.