Maybe you caught laryngitis. Maybe you've taken a monastic vow of silence. Maybe you've got a voice like Beaker. There are so many good reasons to buy the Modern Beats Vox Chants 1 collection.

Vox Chants 1 features over 320MB of one-shot group vocals. Vocals that, according the Modern Beats, were "recorded using only the best class A mic-pre's & condenser microphones." The 500-plus samples represent a wide variety of recorded variations on 36 basic phrases. All 36 vocal chant groups load automatically via provided presets into most popular software samplers; foramts include Reason NN-XT, EXS24, Kontakt, Battery, Halion, Soundfont, and WAV.

And now, because putting them in list form is the only way I think of to make this any funnier, the phrases:

• Aaay!
• Ahhh!
• Bitch!
• Beeyatch!
• Damn!
• Deee-amm!
• Ehhh!
• Fool!
• Go!
• Hahh!
• Hell!
• Hey!
• Ho!
• Hott!
• Nah!
• Nooo!
• Ohhh!
• Oooo!
• Ouch!
• Owww!
• Run!
• Scream!
• Sheee-it!
• Shit!
• Ssss!
• Uhhh!
• Whaa!
• Wham!
• Whaatt!
• Woa!
• Yaayuhhs!
• Yah-ow!
• Yeah!
• Yeah-aah!
• Yepp!
• Extraz...

"Extraz" includes "evil laughs, groans, short phrases, & more," according to Modern Beats.

The samples on Vox Chants 1 were recorded by the same professional chamber musicians who've been working with Vienna Symphonic Library for years. Articulations include legato, staccato, col legno, subito presto and snitchin' poca a poco.