'Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir'

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Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir - Tonepainter , 11 Oct 04:48PM
     Re: Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir - Pip Williams, 11 Oct 05:12PM
         Re: Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir - Tonepainter , 11 Oct 05:47PM
             Re: Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir - Robin Walker, 11 Oct 06:05PM
                 Re: Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir - Tonepainter , 11 Oct 06:15PM
                     Re: Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir - Tonepainter , 11 Oct 08:19PM
                         Re: Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir - wcreed, 11 Oct 09:46PM
                             Re: Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir - Roy Moore, 12 Oct 09:30AM
                                 Re: Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir - Tonepainter , 12 Oct 02:06PM

Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir
Posted by Tonepainter - 11 Oct 04:48PM (edited 11 Oct 04:49PM)
Greetings,

Just purchased Sibelius 7.5.1, first time Sibelius user.

I'm considering different choir-samples software, have narrowed down decision to 3 choices. My questions are about the Sibelius Sound Set for the East West Choir: How reliably does it work? Most of all, is entering text into the score a substitute for having to deal with the EW's word builder?

I couldn't find answers to these questions when performing forum keyword searches and didn't find any reviews for the Sibelius sound sets for EW choirs.

Many thanks in advance for any suggestions and advice.
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Re: Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir
Posted by Pip Williams - 11 Oct 05:12PM
East West Choirs is a great sample library. However, I have found Wordbuilder to be too much trouble to implement, being far too slow to enter.
I just load ah, oo and ee sounds and this is adequate for my purposes (mock-ups for clients etc.)


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Re: Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir
Posted by Tonepainter - 11 Oct 05:47PM
Thanks very much, that's helpful. I'm fine working with oohs/ahs if it comes to that.
So when you enter words for choral parts in Sibelius, the words do not get pronounced on playback through East/West Choirs, correct?
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Re: Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir
Posted by Robin Walker - 11 Oct 06:05PM
Correct.

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Re: Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir
Posted by Tonepainter - 11 Oct 06:15PM
Thank you.
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Re: Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir
Posted by Tonepainter - 11 Oct 08:19PM
Last questions, about software compatibility:
For creation of mock-ups, I use Vienna Symphonic Library which I know can be calibrated for use with Sibelius. When considering software for choral mock-ups, does it make more sense to have Vienna Choir if already dealing with VSL? Another words, if I chose East-West choirs, would this place a bigger burden on Sibelius (and processor power) to deal with both VSL and East West, instead of just dealing with VSL alone with Vienna Choir? Or does it not make any difference in terms how much computer resources are used?

Am using iMac, 10.7.5, 2.7 GHz intel core i5, 16 GB RAM, 2 external G-drives.
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Re: Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir
Posted by wcreed - 11 Oct 09:46PM
The EW Choir is pretty resource intensive and uses a whole MIDI port for each voice section; I can't comment on the VSL, but it's probably less since it's just straight sample playback.


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Re: Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir
Posted by Roy Moore - 12 Oct 09:30AM (edited 12 Oct 09:31AM)
You should read the post from Derek Bourgeois here:

http://www.sibelius.com/cgi-bin/helpcenter/chat/chat.pl?com=thread&start=631702&groupid=3&words=word&name=bourgeois

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Re: Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir
Posted by Tonepainter - 12 Oct 02:06PM (edited 12 Oct 02:12PM)
Roy Moore and wcreed—understood, thank you very much.
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Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir - Tonepainter , 11 Oct 04:48PM
     Re: Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir - Pip Williams, 11 Oct 05:12PM
         Re: Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir - Tonepainter , 11 Oct 05:47PM
             Re: Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir - Robin Walker, 11 Oct 06:05PM
                 Re: Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir - Tonepainter , 11 Oct 06:15PM
                     Re: Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir - Tonepainter , 11 Oct 08:19PM
                         Re: Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir - wcreed, 11 Oct 09:46PM
                             Re: Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir - Roy Moore, 12 Oct 09:30AM
                                 Re: Sib. 7.5: Sound Set for East-West Choir - Tonepainter , 12 Oct 02:06PM