I often watch The Sampleist's reviews. Great stuff, and I like some of Insanity Sample's instruments. Haunted strings 2 is my favourite of theirs. Love to see you review Dark Intervals as a 'spotlight' on their libraries. They somehow make some of the cleanest sounds. Their libraries are fairly small, but if you get their bundles, I see it as one big library. Xperimenta is another fantastic, smaller developer that deserves a spotlight.

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The best in my own libraries is EastWest's Fantasy Voices. The women's choir "Oo" layered with the solo vocal "Oh" and both set to the 'Soft Mood' works really well (I just tried it). Up to you if you layer it with a low volume male vocal too, but probably not needed. 8DO have some really nice libraries for this type of choral work too and I'm sure there's plenty from Orchestral Tools and other companies. As for the size of choir, picture what you see when you think of Christmassy singing - It's usually pretty small, but depends on taste. One to check out though is Vocal Textures 2 from Crocus Soundware. I want this myself. It may not be as "playable" as other choir libraries. They say as much on their site because it's not designed for complicated passages etc, but it has an ethereal quality like no other and you can layer it with a separate solo vocal (Maybe from Ethera Atlantis for example) to gain more melody and such. I recently bought Spirited Flutes from them and it's a wonderful, multi-textured instrument. Highly recommend, especially when on sale.

@Carlo Filingeri You're welcome. Yes, there seems to be a "1st chair" vocalist who creates a bit of texture just floating on top of the soft choral-type main body. I would recommend Atlantis 3 for this and use the Hybrid Vocals patch or a sustain for that kind of movement. Layering libraries is key ;)

Personally, I'd go for AMD. Generally they're better on power consumption and require less hardcore cooling systems. I have a humble 5800X with a decent enough tower cooler and it's never given me any issues for my orchestral work. Intel or AMD will both be fantastic at those top level skews. It just depends on the rest of your rig and what you pair them with.