Turn the Crowd into Choir
Imagine thousands of voices from concerts around the world, all singing together—and now you can control them. That’s the idea behind Jacob Collier Audience Choir, a free vocal instrument from Native Instruments. It captures the energy of Jacob Collier’s Djesse world tour and gives you the power to blend audience vocals, claps, snaps, and stomps. Best part: it’s totally free.
🎙️ What Is Audience Choir?
Jacob Collier Audience Choir is a Kontakt / Kontakt Player instrument (v7.8 or higher) developed by Native Instruments. It provides:
- Audience-recorded choir vocals captured in 22 different cities during the Djesse tour.
- Additional percussive elements like claps, snaps, and stomps from the audience.
- Controls like Vowel Morph pad, Triad Blend, chord generator, and expression via modwheel and polyphonic aftertouch (for compatible controllers).
- Effects and settings including reverb, delay, tuning, stereo width, timbre, etc., for shaping the sound.
⚙️ Installation & Requirements
- You need Kontakt Player 7.8 or above, or full Kontakt.
- Install via Native Access using your Native ID.
- Once installed, load the instrument
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🎶 How to Use It Creatively
Here are some ideas to make this plugin shine:
- Background Atmosphere: Use the choir softly under pads or in transitions to add depth.
- Performance Layers: Use claps, snaps, stomps to add rhythmic texture.
- Chord Creation: Use the chord generator or triad presets to quickly build harmonic content.
- Expression: If you have a controller with polyphonic aftertouch and modwheel, you can morph vowels, adjust dynamics in real time, and bring performative nuance.
- Venue-Specific Colour: Because recordings come from many venues, blending them or switching city-samples can give distinct ambiance.
✅ Why It’s a Big Deal
- Free and high quality: you get real choir recordings from live audiences, not synthetic choir only.
- Unique expression tools: vowel morphing, aftertouch, etc. that many choir libraries don’t include.
- Inspirational: capturing the live energy of crowds gives producers a fresh palette.
- Accessible: Kontakt Player version supported, so many more people can use it.
🔗 Where to Download
Download the Jacob Collier Audience Choir for free from Native Instruments:
Download Audience Choir – Native Instruments
Final Thoughts
If you’re after something that brings life, texture, and real crowd energy into your music, Audience Choir is more than a gimmick—it’s a powerful tool. Whether for ambient, cinematic, pop, or experimental music, it lets you harness collective voices and shape them with expression. Download it, explore the features, and let those thousands of voices become part of your choir.
