EastWest - Hollywood Backup Singers $399

This month, we’re taking a look at two quite different voice-based libraries, but both take quite a novel approach to the creation of vocal textures. The new offering from EastWest sits in an altogether different musical space to Mysteria (more on which next), building on EW’s Voices Of Soul, but also embracing technology found on their ‘Hollywood Choirs’ library.

There are the usual range of ‘ohhs’ and ‘aahs’, alongside other variants of sung consonants and vowels. There are also versions that move between styles using key-switches or the mod wheel, and phrases sung in every key. As expected from EW, there are also multiple mic mixes that let you tweak the sound (captured