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    SOUND DESIGN: CHOIRS AND VOICES

    Feb 25, 2020 3 minutes
    By Francis Preve

    thereal choirs and pads are one of the staples in many factory preset collections, but rolling your own original versions can give you far more customized results for your own tracks. Even vintage analog synthesizers can create decent, albeit artificial, vocal tones. Case in point: The legendary Theremin-like soprano with a touch of vibrato and glide. Some instruments—like the Roland VP-330 and Mellotron—have even become archetypes for choirs, appearing on countless tracks in a wide variety of genres, from synthwave to

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