The Crow Hill Company has announced the release of Children’s Choir, a sample library aimed at media composers working in film, TV, and games. Rather than a straightforward choral tool, the instrument leans into unease, built around recordings of school-age boys coached to produce sounds that sit somewhere between beautiful and genuinely unsettling.

Co-founder and composer Christian Henson led the design with a specific use case in mind: cues that need tension, dread, or that particular quality that children’s voices can carry when pushed into atonal or wavering territory. The library skips the standard vowel-run approach found in most choir plugins and instead organizes content by singing style, accessible via an Expression wheel and dropdown menus. Styles include rises, falls, wavering pitch centers, and a range of short consonant and vowel sounds mapped to individual key switches for quick, chant-style mockups.

The instrument uses a Partials system rather than standard fader mixing. One partial adds a time-stretched, pitch-shifted layer that reportedly sits well under string libraries, while a third Distant partial features baked-in reverb samples that behave differently depending on when keys are released. A Daemons macro chains several effects together for more aggressive texture, and onboard processing includes chorus, an aleatoric chop effect, and a reverb macro labeled Splosh.

Children’s Choir is available now through The Crow Hill Company’s website. Pricing and format details can be found at thecrowhillcompany.com.