MuseSound Test - Choir 

I agree, but I know that thats an incredibly complex task to undertake. It combines text to speech with knowledge of singing practices, MIDI usage, notation, etc. I'd be interested to hear if even premium choir libraries have got that right!

@@mccoydtromb My favourite Composers (Thomas Bergersen and Nick Phoenix) from Two Steps From Hell create a lot of amszing orchestra pieces, and afaik they are very active in music industry, not only by writing pieces but also by contributing a lot to virtual instrument samples ( such as Strings, Choir etc. ). If I'm not mistaken, they co-founded EastWest (this is a video of Nick Phoenix showing the software for choir: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gqFO4x57xlw.html). Also, I can recommend you to listen to "That's A Wrap" by Thomas Bergersen, it was composed for demonstrating music libraries (and it's one of my favourite pieces :D )

ofc, I don't expect Musescore to do something similar, but you said you were curious how other softwares display choir. Maybe you'll like TSFH as well, they are amazing at producing music

Thanks for the info! Always good to learn about technologies that are around.

@@mccoydtromb You're Welcome! :D

I thought it was just me! I managed to get the tenor samples to play for a few seconds in a full score and they sound beautiful. Hope this issue gets fixed quickly.

Thank you! I'll keep doing that, then.

Even the vowels would be nice! :D

It's not just the sound library, it's the entire playback system. Tantacrul talks about it is his video about how Musescore 4 came to be.

You're right. It seems the new playback engine using the same old sound library sounds a lot better! Add musesounds and its amazing!

It seems to be a general issue with these sounds. You can only use mp if all of your other sounds are at mp or p...

What you're describing with a room sound is exactly what convolution reverb does - sample the sound of an impulse in a space and then essentially multiply the signal through that sample. I think that is also the basis of vocoders, so that could be possible. Would be very cool if you could record yourself talking, plug that into musescore and hear your lyrics in the choir!

Could be... Or some combination of staccatissimo with legato.

Opening the mixer and disabling the reverb send (coloured reverb button on the vocal channel strip) will help, but these sounds are definitely designed for legato choir. Adding staccato could help in some circumstances because it moves away from the default legato sound (especially in quicker moving notes). Otherwise try the ms basic vocal sounds instead of musesounds choir, or a 3rd party VST plugin. Hope this helps

Haha!