Muse Choir Reviews
tbh it annoys me how every sound seems to start late? And the volumes aren’t that great but the tone quality is so good idk.
It's a shame that there's no mezzo-forte layer.
It's a very good sound pack, sounds much more natural than the basic choir voices. But unfortunately, all fonts have an extremely low volume. Another thing I noticed is that sometimes most of them sound exactly the same in certain parts of the piano spectrum... or they don't sound at all, being just silence. Due to that behavior, it might be possible that some fonts are just a subset of the Full Choir font, also included in this one (the best in my opinion), and not individual ones, which is ok, but could be simplified if that was the case.
The tone quality is good, but there is significant inconsistency in volume dynamics. Specifically, the sound is too quiet compared to other soundfonts and lacks uniformity, causing sudden, drastic fluctuations in volume. If this issue were resolved, it would be an excellent voice.
From what I've seen, they fixed the issues that most people are talking about... I don't see any major problems with it. Besides, it's free, so... why are we complaining?
I uninstalled it - the default voice sounds are better.
I just installed Muse Choir, and the sounds are the complete opposite of the description. They're pretty terrible. I'd rather just assign one of the instruments sounds instead of hearing these vocal sounds.
I installed the plugin. Rescanned plugins in the "Plugin Manager" - nowhere to be found... I am thinking I may have made a mistake with opting in with the MUSEHUB...
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The basses straight up make no sound when I try to compose for choir pieces.
The voices are very inconsistent. They will randomly get really loud or quiet. The Soprano often gets extra loud when it's hitting a high note. I think it's supposed be expression. Overall it's really quiet and garbled. The rhythm is all over the place too, making the parts mush together and create dissonance I honestly prefer the MS Basic voices to these.
really, really good
Dissappointing in its current state The samples really do sound Great! Much much better than basic choir samples, but when rhythms don't play correctly that doesn't really matter, it still cant be used.. It is constantly rushing even slow notes and is all over the place on faster notes. There is also a jarring swelling effect that makes random crescendos everywhere. If the swelling was tweakable it might help. Different note samples also seem to have notably different volumes even outside of play mode. I see modifying wovels through staff text was recently added. That is a great feature! but again: It doesn't matter as long as it cant play rhythms correctly. New rims don't help when the tires are flat.
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There is Something wrong with rythm and its pretty annoying.
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Its difficult to arrange and compose when the choir randomly swings notes, throwing off the rhythm. Please fix this!
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The sounds are lovely and blend together very nicely but there is absolutely no sense of rhythm. Voices are consistently early/late for no reason and additionally struggle to create any space between notes. This renders it almost unusable, as there’s no way to get any real sense of what your music actually sounds like! I feel like this would be a really easy fix, so please listen to us!
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As others have said, the dynamics and levels are all over the place, making them basically unusable. I can see how they could be better than the standard offering, but they are too unpredictable at present.
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With no dynamics set in my score, the output volume is inconsistent during playback from note to note. It does not happen with any specfic note(s), but seems to be totally random. I use the Full Choir voice.
I can't give a thumbs down for free - but I'm looking forward to future improvements. Dynamics need help, along with balancing, though that can mostly be micromanaged for making rehearsal tracks. The biggest improvement would be to sample more vowel sounds - I'd recommend starting with all the Italian vowel sounds and go from there.
The soundfont sounds good, but the balancing is TERRIBLE. The men often sound louder than the women and the sopranos, even on fortississimo, sound quiet. The dynamics for them can go all over the place which makes this soundfont not easy to work with at all. I would really appreciate if all of this was fixed.
This is MILES better than the standard MS vocal font, but voice parts (sopranos in particular, altos to some extent) constantly rush ahead of notes. Does it have something to do with the "fast mode" mentioned in the user guide? Please fix!! This is such a lovely soundfont, I desperately want to use it!
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All in all I do like how the voices sound but MAN. I don't know what happened to those sopranos but they are struggling. Either they rush notes (to be fair EVERY voice part does at times for some reason), disappear into the void, or just smack you awake. Every voice part has some quirks and bugs, but the sopranos especially need some attention. A couple of tweaks and this sound font could be amazing.
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I really enjoy this soundfont. It's nice to have real voices. However, the mixing is not the greatest. The Sopranos for example get really loud when forte but get really quiet in mezzo piano, it makes finding a balance in SATB pretty difficult.