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There’s no shortage of choir libraries out there, so these alternatives concentrate on those that offer some kind of ‘verbalising’ facility. One’s choice is ultimately guided by how specific (or not) you want the lyrical content to be. Word builders allow for completely freeform input of words, syllables and consonants; the rest work within the constraints of pre-defined words, phrases or syllables. The descriptions here are painted with a very broad brush; the term ‘syllable phrase builder’ simply signifies some sort of scripting or other means to chain the supplied words or syllables together in the required order. The issue of pronunciation is an interesting one that very much depends on which continent you come from and which language you’re using. HWC’s documentation, tutorial videos and the Votox/Phonetics rules shown in the GUI’s guide menus approach this from the perspective of American pronunciation, which is frequently at odds with the pronunciation you’d expect to hear from a classical English choir.

For example, the manual suggests using a Votox ‘u’ for the ‘o’ in ‘money’. That actually sounds as ‘merney’ — the US pronunciation. Kliker rapidfire. To sound English, you actually need a Votox ‘a’ to get an ‘uh’ sound. Similarly, Votox ‘a’ is suggested for the word ‘copper’ — again, this gives the US-sounding ‘cupper’, so a Votox ‘o’ should be used instead.

The ‘per’ of ‘copper’ is also potentially awkward; the manual lists Votox ‘ur’ as in ‘purple’, but that actually sounds like ‘ooor’. Typing ‘Ko pAr’ finally does the trick, producing something closer to the flat-vowel English-sounding ‘per’ word ending. I also found (as in this case) that going to the Options and selecting Latin input mode as opposed to English mode sometimes produced more predictable results.

Alternative language versions of the Votox and Phonetic vowel pronunciations would be a great time-saver and make a useful addendum in the manual. The new version of WordBuilder includes a number of new features, starting with over 100 new phrase presets (and the promise of more to come), with some new vowels and consonants added to the sample pool. In a move to increase intelligibility, the relative balance between vowels, pitched and non-pitched consonants can now be adjusted with three volume sliders; these volume settings are applied per instance of Play and all new instances default to 100 percent for all three volumes.

In a similar vein, the volume scaling of consonants adjusts automatically according to how many notes are played in a chord. Alternate takes of non-pitched consonants can now be specified using a numbering system, intended to avoid the inconsistency of random round robins. Volume, pan and mic mix settings are applied across all parts of a WB Multi, avoiding the need to adjust each part individually. Most significantly, WB now has Sync to DAW functionality (described in the body text) potentially saving huge amounts of time and frustration when working with especially long phrases. EastWest Hollywood Choirs $599 $599 pros • High-quality choir recordings. • Wide dynamic range controlled via the modulation wheel.

• The new WordBuilder. Cons • No portamento Legato transitions. • Although crossfading between different sustained vowels is possible as pre-programmed events in WordBuilder, it’s not manually performable in real time using MIDI CCs. • Effects settings not duplicated across all parts of a WordBuilder Multi. • The manual needs updating to more accurately explain the behaviour of Legato patches. Summary HWC features new men’s and women’s choirs, well recorded with an impressive dynamic range. WordBuilder version 2 has various improvements, the most significant and helpful being the ability to synchronise the text position in WordBuilder’s Text Editor to your DAW’s cursor position using the Sync/Draw learn facility.