This one stems from the same request I get a ton of times a year... to create choirs or doubled tracks by simply duplicating one track a bunch of times and panning them all over.
Here is the story:
I help arrange projects for albums with string sections and etc. I was creating arrangements with string samplers for an album where the artist and I decided that it would be good to record any solo violin parts with a great violinist. At this point, we only had one song that really had that. But regardless, I get a call a day before the session and the call went like this:
Client: We would like you to notate the string parts for "song A" and "song B"
Me: Cool. Now I now what string part you are talking about in "song A," but "song B" doesn't have any solo string parts.
Client: I know, but can you just notate all the violin parts in "song B"?
Me: What is the plan?
Client: Well, I would like to record her playing each part. Then I would like you to copy and paste each of those parts 6-7 times to create violin sections out of those string parts.