Anyone using EastWest Symphonic Choirs for classical music?
I've been having a frustrating time in starting on a project to make new MIDI renderings and recordings of all my public compositions, both due to hopelessly flawed and perversely behaved MIDI sequencers / DAWs (SythFont 2 and Overture were the best I could find for my purpose, and I've now pretty-well given up on both of those), and pretty outrageously flawed commercial instrument libraries, on which I've largely wasted significant money because I've largely had to fall back on the best I could find among the masses of free soundfonts, which at least were MUCH more usable for me in certain fundamental respects.
In terms of the MIDI editing / sequencing software issue, I'm well aware of the MuseScore 4 plans, and so my actually giving up on my re-recording project at the moment is really a commonsense move to save stress and further wasted money, to hang on till that hopefully much more composer-friendly (and empowering) MuseScore version is up and running, and fully-fledged with all its planned MIDI functionality.
In the meantime I want to get a better idea if there really is a choir library out there that I could really use. I'm sick to the teeth of being told from all manner of directions that the choir in Amadeus Symphonic, Garritan Personal Orchestra, Kontakt Factory (Vienna SL) Library, and SoundIron's Olympic Elements Choir are excellent, for they all have show-stopping flaws for my use, and I've wasted a lot of money on those, with no means for redress.
A lot of online searching around suggests to me that the EastWest Choirs might fit my bill when I eventually resume my re-recording project - BUT I have no intention to risk wasting still more significant money on such a set without hearing plenty of examples of that collection in 'straight' classical music use, with no 'epic', dreamy or spacy effects. The trouble with most online examples of such collections in use is that they're aimed at the mass market and thus not at sensitive and discriminating picky old b-gg-rs like me, and they tell me almost nothing that I really need to know!
So, I was wondering if there are any users of the EastWest Choirs for 'straight' classical music on this forum, who would be happy to share with me some MP3 examples of that collection being used in their own classical compositions, and to give me the lowdown on issues they've experienced in using it. That could be extremely helpful for me, and could save me from eventually making another expensive mistake.
Many thanks!