Background Vocal Software, Suggestions Please! Options

[smokinshaman]

I am looking for software/plugin that will allow me to create background vocals. Specifically, I am looking for a large choir that can back my lead vocals. I would like the software to be able to take my vocal line and manipulate it to sound like multiple voices, both male and female.

Any Suggestions?

BTW - I use DP4 with an 828mkII on a 12" G4 powerbook.

Thanks in advance,

KC

[eric_berlin]

Melodyne is awesome, but it's really not made for what you're trying to do. What Melodyne does is manipulate sound faithfully - in moving pitch, time and formant. It's really not made for choir type duplications.
TC Electronics has a number of devices that will work much better for you. Voiceworks and voice live in particular. You can stack four voices at once and it adds tiny variations so that there are no phasing problems like you would have with exact duplicates. You can change the pitch a number of ways. For example you can have it follow your voice with a perfect third or you can give it the key you're singing in and it will follow that scale, or you can play notes on a midi instrument and it will follow that. It's a much much easier way to get what you're trying to accomplish. The quality is good, although not as good as Melodyne. But Melodyne would just give you exact copies without any of the variations that are really important in harmony.

are you kiding or working for tc?
man... I love tc and their voiceworks so I understand your enthousiam.
but melodyne give much more freedom and you can write any harmony and voice variations you want for your background vocals with it. takes a few minutes. sound quality is as you said much better than the tc stuff.
anyway... melodyne has a demo version so it's simple to try it out.
tc has no demo version for the hardware stuff :/

[Mu Technologies]

I've just anounced en new harmonizer plug-in, you might want to check out.
www.mu-technologies.com
Let me know what you think.