Rain Choir | Evolving Textural "Choir" Pads

A rainy day at a bus stop, transformed into a lush and evolving choir pad

I recorded the original sample on my phone, on a rainy day at a bus stop in Greater Vancouver, Canada. I didn't think much of it at the time, and it sat there collecting digital dust for months. Then, a video by Venus Theory really piqued my interest. The idea was creating a tonal sound out of anything, even noise. I then found that recording again and went to town on it. After tone shaping and tons of mindless sound design, I was left with a decent starting point for Rain Choir. I then had to put a script together so Decent Sampler could run it. Having never done XML scripting before, It turned out pretty good methinks. User-friendly and functional.

The main controls are Velocity Tracking, amplitude ADSR, Expression, and Tone. There's also a reverb control, and a poly/mono switch with an additional glide time control in mono mode.

Here is Rain Choir in action

Rain Choir Demos

As mentioned earlier, Rain Choir is my first ever sample library and I’m rather happy with it. I hope you enjoy playing with this library as much as I enjoyed creating it. I’d love to hear any music that you make with Rain Choir, or your thoughts on it! There may also be a Kontakt version soon, if I’m able to do it

PS: Huge thanks to my good friend and fellow composer, Marco Ianello for his assistance on the scripting of this library, without him I would not have known where to start with scripting, and also make sure it was ready for release.
UI background photo by Amadej Tauses (Unsplash license)