Realitone / Sunset Choir

[Piet De Ridder]

After working on it for three years, Realitone has finally released Sunset Choir, a Kontakt-formatted choir library. "With expressive sustains, smooth legatos, slow bends, organic textures, and a dash of crazy, Sunset Choir Ultimate is without a doubt the most versatile choir sample library on the market. With the lush acoustics of United Recording's Studio A in Hollywood, Sunset Choir is perfect for media scoring, and anything with a contemporary flair".

The library includes "unique performances of Men and Women ensembles, as well as up to 6 soloists, to offer a comprehensive selection of articulations covering the gamut of choral writing. Use the coveted "Sunset Engine" (made famous by Sunset Strings) to load up to 2 different crossfade-able articulation layers, as well as dedicated attack and release articulations, to get as creative, wild, or deliciously vanilla as you'd like.
Choose from a range of true legato vowels, natural sustains, extended sustains, atonal soundscapes, shorts, swells, evolutions, repetitions, slow bends, accented attacks, various release styles, and more..."

Sunset Choir comes in two versions:
- Ultimate (113 GB / MSRP $599, Intro Price $399)
- Lite (18 GB / MSRP $299, Intro Price $199)
For a detailed comparison, see the chart and the articulation listing on the product page.

At the moment there's only a temp mono rough walk-through available -- the mono sound is unfortunately not the best way to introduce a choir library --, but there should be a proper walk-through video in a few days. If you can't wait to get a better idea of what the library sounds like in full stereo, there's a short demo.



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[wst3]

While not officially available for sale yet, I was able to pick up a copy on Saturday.

It is my new favorite choir library, by a long stretch!

Disclaimer - I provided customer and technical support for Realitone until this past spring, so I am obviously at least a little bit biased, but...

The things that stood out during my initial "session" - first and foremost the sound - it sounds magnificent. Mike is really getting the hang of this<G>. It is a shame that particular studio is no longer available, Sunset Strings, Nightfall, and now Sunset Choir all owe part of their sound to the studio.

Just as impressive, the library almost plays itself. I own a couple of big choir libraries, most notably the Eric Whitacre library from Spitfire, and I've struggled with all of them. Mostly I guess I am just not a great choir composer/arranger, but I didn't struggle with Sunset Choir. I didn't need to fuss, it just worked for me (obviously YMMV).

I'll be posting a couple of examples later this week, I need to make sure i show it off in all its glory.

Lastly, and I think this matters, it is fun to work with! It is fun to go exploring all the articulations and features. It will be a while before I can consider myself worthy<G>.

[wst3]

Oh, and Piet - your short demo wasn't entirely responsible for my hesitance to post, but it really is good!

[Piet De Ridder]

Not mine, Bill. It's a link I copied from the product page.
(Sorry for the confusion.)

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[Lawrence]

I believe that’s from Jdiggity on VI-C.

[wst3]

Well Jdiggity has had a little time to play with it...

No problem with the confusion, in fact I feel a little better about my own attempts now that I know you did not instantly figure it out

[Ashermusic]

Does its wordbuilder work like Blue?

[Mike Greene]

This is definitely not a wordbuilder instrument, and I kinda regret including the consonants, because they imply that it is. It's not.

[Ashermusic]

This is definitely not a wordbuilder instrument, and I kinda regret including the consonants, because they imply that it is. It's not.

Ah, that’s disappointing for me. But good luck with it.

[Scoredog]

Obviously this is Mike’s library and there is no word builder built in but one can create words with it, maybe not every word but quite a few words. I’m pretty blown away with the sound and depth of the lib.