East West Quantum Leap Choir WordBuilder

[MACHINE]

Can anyone help me out on this, I can't get the words to come out, I've checked all the tutorials that are on soundsonline.com so please don't redirect me there. I try following what the guy does on screen and just press the keys after I put in the words but just piano sounds come out, and its weird cause whenever I try to change the global channel I just get different piano sounds. So ****ing frustrating someone help me please.

[mogWai]

I can only assume that your MIDI track is not outputting to Choirs but is still routed to the default Wavetable synth.

Check manual and settings.

[MACHINE]

Does that mean I need a Midi Controller with a In and a Out ? Cause I only have one midi plug.

[mogWai]

What DAW are you using?

You need to do something like this -

Select your MIDI track.

Select input as 'MIDI input (whatever your MIDI input and controller keyboard is attached to'.

Select MIDI output as 'Symphonic Choirs'.

[MACHINE]

Im just trying to make it work as a standalone right now, not as a plug in, I can't get it to make sound with my Midi controller.

[mogWai]

Ok... Is it a Kompakt Player instrument? (Most East West stuff is)..

Go to FILE > SETUP > MIDI

MIDI input is your interface's MIDI input. Check its active.

MIDI output doesnt matter.

Go to SOUNDCARD

Are you on PC? Then set interface to ASIO

OUTPUT DEVICE is your audio interface. NOT the generic interfaces but the actual name of your actual interface ie. ECHO PCI or EMU ASIO etc...

Go to ROUTING. Select Outputs 1/2 as your interface's 1 and 2 outputs.

Should be good to go

EDIT: Just had thought... you're not using a keyboard with its own sounds as your controller are you? Do you mean your keyboard is playing the piano sounds...?

[d.dot]

Originally Posted by mogWai

Ok... Is it a Kompakt Player instrument? (Most East West stuff is)..

Go to FILE > SETUP > MIDI

MIDI input is your interface's MIDI input. Check its active.

MIDI output doesnt matter.

Go to SOUNDCARD

Are you on PC? Then set interface to ASIO

OUTPUT DEVICE is your audio interface. NOT the generic interfaces but the actual name of your actual interface ie. ECHO PCI or EMU ASIO etc...

Go to ROUTING. Select Outputs 1/2 as your interface's 1 and 2 outputs.

Should be good to go

EDIT: Just had thought... you're not using a keyboard with its own sounds as your controller are you? Do you mean your keyboard is playing the piano sounds...?

Word Builder is a separate application. Its not as straight forward as it seems. At a friends' studio, I could never get it to work in standalone mode. (I'm not saying it isn't possible. Just my tiny mind couldn't figure it out.) I used nuendo as a host. You have to call up word builder as a midi plug-in. Then call up symphonic choirs as a vst plug. Set the midi out of WB to the Input of EWSC. In EWSC you can't use the regular voices in the program slots, i.e. sopranos, boys choir, etc. You have to use the voices in the MULTI menu that have WB in their titles.

[MACHINE]

thanx alot for the advice

[piano]

Hi Machine,

Did you get it to work?

How does it perform in practial use and can you post a sound file?

I listened to the demos with my mother who has been a choir director for the past 30 years. We were both AMAZED!

Years ago I purchased the Symphony of Voices sample set- amazing. BUT that Choir word builder takes the cake if you can actually type in words for the choir to sing and sound THAT good!

Let us know how realistic it sounds --- post a file please!

[d.dot]

Make sure you have lots of RAM. At least 2 gigs. 1.25 gigs kept displaying a running out of memory warning.