How does one voice actually become a choir?
I AM CHOIR is what Am I Audio calls a timbre transfer plugin: feed it a single monophonic vocal take and it analyzes the lyrics, melody, timing and phrasing, then re-renders that exact performance through the sound of a real choir recorded together in one room. It is not a harmonizer stacking pitch-shifted copies of your own voice. It is three trained AI voice models, Gospel Choir, Children's Choir and Gang Vocals, each built from actual recording sessions with actual singers, plus a harmony engine that can stack thirds and fifths above or below the melody. Everything runs locally inside the plugin, no round trip to a server, which also means no internet connection needed once it is installed.
The plugin ships as VST3, AU and AAX, works in Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Studio One, Cubase, Bitwig and Reaper, and costs $169 at launch against a $199 regular price. Mac support covers macOS 12 and later; Windows is in development with a beta program open.
Why does the royalty model matter here?
Every AI voice tool right now sits inside the same fight: Suno and Udio are being sued by Universal, Sony and Warner over training data scraped without consent, and voice actors have spent two years pushing for basic consent and payment before a model can clone their voice at all. Am I Audio is positioning I AM CHOIR against exactly that backdrop. "Every voice was contributed knowingly, consensually, and ethically," the company states. "The singers involved were compensated for their work and will share in the success of the tool through a royalty."
Every voice was contributed knowingly, consensually, and ethically. The singers involved were compensated for their work and will share in the success of the tool through a royalty.
That is a genuinely different deal than the flat session fee that has defined choir and session-singer work for decades, AI or not. A one-time check ends the singer's stake in whatever gets built from the recording. A royalty does not: the LA gospel singers, the MUSYCA kids and the Gang Vocals cast keep earning as long as I AM CHOIR keeps selling.
Who is actually behind the plugin?
Am I Audio was founded by Yung Spielburg, Colin Brittain and Vincent Ernst, and built I AM CHOIR's voice engine in partnership with Neutone Inc., an AI audio company known for real-time neural plugins. The Gospel Choir model came from sessions with a Los Angeles gospel choir coordinated by Eric Howard. The Children's Choir model came from Musyca, a nonprofit children's choir. Gang Vocals pulled from Am I Audio's own network of session artists, writers and producers.
None of this settles the wider argument over AI voice modeling, but it does put a concrete number, a royalty line in a contract, where most AI voice products only offer a terms-of-service disclaimer.
