The Crow Hill Company’s Vaults series is a treasure trove of free sounds with a twist, and their latest addition is the Wavering Choir.
The twist is that the contents of the vault are ever-changing. Each new release remains in the vault for six months, and a previous release is removed with each new addition.
You can use anything you download for life, but once it’s gone, there’s no more downloading; it’s gone and never to be seen again! (No one knows where they go)
Wavering Choir is the latest addition, and like most releases from The Crow Hill Company, it has an interesting story.
The choir, consisting of primarily Scottish singers, was recorded at Clockwork Studios in Glasgow, a lovely repurposed church that also served as the scoring stage for Spitfire Audio’s Albion Colossus.
Wavering Choir has an inherently Celtic character with a rawness that heightens any target emotion, whether sad or triumphant, because it feels more human.
The Crow Hill Company instructed all singers to rearticulate their vowel sounds with a wide vibrato, creating a wavering pitch effect.
The core character is already interesting enough, but the wavering effect emotionally takes it to another level.
The drifting motion makes the sound more interesting, creating these interweaving patterns within sustained chords.
More importantly, it highlights the previously mentioned rawness, which lends itself well to many different applications. Eerie sequences sound a little creepier, defiant passages sound more assertive with that strength-in-vulnerability quality, and so on.
You might have six months to download Wavering Choir, but don’t forget many Black Friday sales will end soon, including limited-time freebies from Waves and Air Music Tech.
Wavering Choir features the standard Vaults GUI; the main dials are Timbre and Distance.
Timbre is a custom-made dynamic filter, and the Distance control allows you to blend the spot mic with the Decca Tree above the choir.
The smaller dials are Balance, Mod, Echo, and Splosh.
Balance lets you blend and transition through the lower and higher registers of the choir. The Mod dial adds more aggressive movement through frequency modulation.
Vaults users will be familiar with Echo and Splosh, the stereo tape delay and reverb combo with a reversible signal chain.
Wavering Choir sounds stunning, and with a little fader controller (or MIDI keyboard faders), it really comes to life.
The Crow Hill App is available in AU, VST, VST3, and AAX formats for macOS (11 – 14. X) and Windows (10-11).
Download: Wavering Choir (FREE)
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14 Comments
Kantaro
onThx 4 your nice info, it’s a so nice sound.
But I can’t download The Crow Hill App to my Mac (10.15.7), can’t click the menu button.
Maybe I’m not able to see their web pages correctly.
Can I download the App directly an another way?
Bob
onThere are separate installers for Intel and ARM. Try whichever one is right for you:
app dot thecrowhillcompany dotcom /osx/setup.dmg
app dot thecrowhillcompany dotcom /osx/setup-arm.dmg
Ave
onCan you delete tte installer after installing the sounds and still have them work?
Bob
onDo you mean the Crow Hill app? I don’t think you need that for the sounds to work (once they’re activated) but you’ll need it to download new libraries or any updates. Not really much point in deleting it.
Kantaro
onnow giving up to install this, it waste my Mac storage too much and requires are too many!!
you’d better to concentrate on another creative works.
DP
onNot working here at all. Windows 11, I downloaded the app and a couple of the free Vaults plugins but all it says that each are “Queued for Download” but they never do. Waited half an hour. Uninstalled sadly. I’m sure the sounds are nice but there’s a lot more straightforward and instant options out there than this
Season
onOn the demonstration video, what controller is he using with his left hand?
Bob
onIt’s a Ghost Note Audio Conductor
ge
onso if you signed up for the red strings which have now gone if you don’t have them installed you can never install them again ? that’s a bit s*** if that’s the case
Bob
onIf they’re in your account you can reinstall them. When they’re removed from “sale” new users can’t get them.
I think it’s a pretty stupid way of doing things, but that’s just how they want to do Vaults.
PMF
oncrow hill has made installing their stuff a very dumb, unnecessarily difficult process; especially for something they’re giving away.
Raven
onBeyond Epic
Z
onInstall is annoying and the plugin didnt work in Reaper for me…
Fabadabs
onKeep having problems with installing these, and it seems like I am not the only one! The standalone installers were way better!