Best Free VSTs: Voices & Choirs
I don’t have a witty introduction for this one.
*tap dances*
Choirs
- General choir
- bigcat Instruments Mihai Sorohan Vowel Choir has men and women singing 5 basic vowels (“ah”, “ee”, “eh”, “oh”, “oo”). The sound is more pop-like. NKI SFZ
- XPERIMENTA Choir has the “ah” syllable. NKI (FastSpring)
- ProjectSAM The Free Orchestra‘s “Luminous Choir” patch is an ensemble vocal swell with various altos, tenors, and basses on an “ah” syllable (though the “Vowel” formant control lets you shift it to sound more like an “oh”… sort of) from F2-C5. NICNT (account)
- The Meyer Choir is a 4-person choir made up of Jon Meyer and his family. It’s not a “pitch perfect” instrument, but it is very intimate and textured. NKI EXS (account)
- Female choir
- FluffyAudio Haunted Choir has legato humming and “oo” patches. It’s a good sound, if a bit mellow and pad-like. NKI (FastSpring)
- Male choir
- Embertone Ancient Voices features an “awh” (“oh”?) syllable with (gasp!) true legato. NKI (Cartloom)
- decent|SAMPLES Dave Choir is a kind of pop-sounding set of “oh” and “ah” sustains. NKI SFZ dspreset
Solo vocals
- Beatboxing
- See percussion ยง beatboxing kits.
- Cat
- Soundiron Snack the Cat NKI (Shopify OR account)
- Chicken toy
- twinkledisc Chicken NKI
- Child
- Embertone Arcane‘s bonus “Prize” patch is various silly recordings of kids, including a short “doo” syllable from C4-C6. NICNT (Cartloom)
- The Meyer Choir contains two child voices which can each be soloed. They sing on a breathy, sometimes slightly out-of-tune “oh” syllable. NKI EXS (account)
- Dog(!)
- Atom Hub Barking Buddy NKI
Female- Auddict Celestial Voices Ceres features legato, slides, crescendos, mordents, and turns on the “ah,” “oh,” “eh,” and “mm” syllables (G3-C#5). There are also little ornaments and whispers. NKI (FastSpring)
- Ivy Audio Clare Solo includes legato and sustains on the “oh” syllable (B3-F5). NKI (account or torrent)
- Male
- Rossignol-Studio Choris features a man singing on a “hah” syllable (G2-C5) with three velocity layers.
- Micah’s Choir features a professional tenor (G2-E5) on an “ah” syllable which modulates to “uh” and “ooh” depending on the pitch and dynamic, the latter of which can be increased using the “Ache” meter (the mod wheel). I had to do some tweaking to get the Kontakt instrument to behave the way I liked, but the samples themselves are very good, so you could easily pop them into another sampler if you don’t own/know how to mess with Kontakt. NKIdspresetWAV (account)
S. Christian Collins Boy Band is a young man singing “doo.” I am almost 100% certain this is not the real Temmie Village sound1, but some armchair detectives decided it was, inspiring a slew of Boy Band-powered Temmie covers, so you can use it for that now, I guess. (If you have Mixcraft, it’s already included in Acoustica Expanded Instruments — patch 21.) SF2- stgiga’s Acapella Group XG(S)MT88* has a lot of… uh… syllables, I guess, is what could be said for it? If you like cheesy voice-based SoundFonts, you may find some use from this collection, which includes such patches as “Ping pong impression,” “Haaeaaahahaeheah,” and of course, “Gay!” SF2
- Vocaloid/vocal synth
- Vocallective Records NATA for Alter/Ego VST
- tora ouji’s Bones for Alter/Ego VST
- Aquestone Win VST
- Whispers
- Wavesfactory Whispers generates various whispered syllables. As a heads up to my more sensitive readers: as a Halloween instrument, the interface is a bit spooky. NKI (newsletter OR account)
- Whistling
- Rwi’s Booth KonKon Whistle NKI (BOOTH)
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- ๐ป Orchestral strings
- ๐ธ Guitars, harps, lutes, & zithers
- ๐ท Woodwinds & free reeds
- ๐บ Brass & horns
- ๐ Idiophones
- ๐ฅ Drums, percussion
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