Spitfire Audio Eric Whitacre Choir

$599.00

Eric Whitacre Choir by Spitfire Audio is an immersive virtual choir library that captures the full expressive range and emotional depth of a world-class choral ensemble. Curated in collaboration with renowned composer Eric Whitacre, it delivers rich, nuanced vocal textures and a broad palette of articulations—perfect for cinematic scoring, classical composition, and innovative hybrid productions.

Description

Crafted & conducted by the Grammy award winner

Eric Whitacre Choir transports you into the heart of a majestic choral performance, meticulously recorded to capture every subtle nuance of vocal expression. Developed with the input of Eric Whitacre himself, this library features a wide range of articulations, dynamic layers, and multiple microphone perspectives to provide an authentic, living choir experience. Whether you’re crafting soaring, ethereal passages or intimate, detailed phrases, Eric Whitacre Choir empowers you to create deeply moving and realistic choral arrangements.

Hard-wired to humanity, nothing gets to the heart of music like the human voice – and our most anticipated release to date is a choir that captures the breathtaking range of our most personal musical instrument. Crafted and conducted by Grammy winner Eric Whitacre and showcasing his elite family of singers, this encyclopaedia of the voice will enrich your compositions.

With these sounds at your fingertips, you will start to think differently about the human voice. Go beyond the choral cliches of sacred, angelic and apocalyptic, using these sounds to add depth, beauty, grit, emotion, or suspense. Recorded in the widescreen resonance of The Hall at AIR Studios, Eric Whitacre Choir shares the acoustic DNA of Spitfire’s orchestral range and is designed to complement and blend seamlessly with each of these libraries — all presented in our easy to use, award-winning dedicated plugin, including an Evo Grid for instant inspiration.

The choir

Eric Whitacre Choir is one of our biggest libraries, filling 200GB of audio, and now NKS ready. We’ve taken a decade of sampling experience and applied this approach to give composers and producers a choral library that uses voices just like another section of your orchestra. In addition to a full orchestral set of samples, we have also recorded a stunning Evo Grid, with each element sculpted by Eric.

With the help of design and user experience-agency ustwo (Monument Valley, DICE), Eric Whitacre Choir is housed in a bespoke, self-contained plug-in (VST2, VST3, AU, AAX), developed primarily for composers, by composers. A composition tool that’s easy to use, intuitive and inspiring.

There are 22 singers in total: six soprano, five alto, five tenor and six bass. In the Choir section you will find a total of 170 techniques, while the Evo Grid packs 111 Evolutions.

The Evo Grid

Where the choir meets Spitfire’s unique Evo Grid technology, a new instrument is born – one that so impressed Eric, he said, “Frankly, I wish I could compose like this in everyday life.” Simple in principle, inspiring in practice, the grid takes samples that change in different ways over time and arranges them across the keyboard. Play a single gesture or chord and it will weave a micro-composition that never stands still. Construct your own evolution, or hit the randomise button to automatically generate a unique instrument from an almost infinite array of possibilities. Always original, and always musical.

“The idea is that you can take up to three or four of these Evolutions and combine them,” says Eric, “or cycle through them as one of them evolves, and suddenly you’re painting music in a totally different way, sculpting sound in real time. You can create minutes of profoundly beautiful music in this way.”

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PRODUCT SUMMARY

World-Class Choir Samples: Professionally recorded with expressive, detailed articulations for unmatched realism.
Extensive Articulation Library: Features legato, staccato, sustained, and dynamic vocal techniques to suit every musical context.
Multiple Microphone Perspectives: Offers versatile spatial imaging to tailor the vocal mix to your project’s needs.
Intuitive Interface & Kontakt Integration: Seamlessly integrates into your workflow for quick and creative choral production.
Designed for Cinematic & Classical Applications: Ideal for film scoring, concert compositions, and hybrid productions that demand emotional depth.