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I worked with some early speech synthesizers in the 70s, and we had to program words with exaggerated phonemes along the lines Mac just described. "Hello" sounded like a fast, clipped "HEElow". We had to type "Hay-uh-LOW-uh" to make it sound realistic. Some are definitely better than others, and the technology has continued to improve. This is one example that demonstrates potential. Although I think a lot of editing has been included in the samples to get the phonemes sounding somewhat natural. I doubt you can type a lyric and expect great results out of the box. Voice synthesis speaking products are currently much better than those trying to include melodic phrasing. In my view, Sinsy doesn't even rate.
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A side benefit of Sinsy is that it is implemented by Music XML exported from BIAB. I'm hoping further development will be done in this area.
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The merits of vocal synthesis are irrelevant in addressing the issue at hand. The fact is that the auto mode of generating synthesized vocals does not work at the moment.
I would be happy to hear mispronounced words with all kinds of artifacts. All I have been able to generate using the auto mode is the same "kih" syllable previously described. There is no hint of any kind of word pronunciation. I made a call to support last week and in real time he generated the same kind of file I have been getting, but sidestepped the issue by suggesting it might be a temporary problem with sinsy, a third party application.
On the other hand, I have been able to get more typical results using the manual process. Inserting the generated XML file into synsy and then importing the synthesized vocal wav file into RealBand or BIAB seems to work for some reason. I don't know what is different in the auto mode, but this could be a lot of fun and gets the creative juices flowing. I'm sure, like every other new feature, the kinks will be worked out, but we should not confuse what is being generated by the auto mode with the shortcomings of vocal synthesis.
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Hank, you should be able to manually create a file from Sinsy. It sounds like you're still having difficulty doing that. Here's what to do: 1. Add lyrics to the song. It sounds like you've already done that, so I'll skip details on this step. 2. In the Lyrics menu, choose Vocal Synth- Manual Mode (Generate Vocal Audio from Lyrics & Melody). 3. You should get a popup message box with text along the lines of: C:\bb\data\SRequest\Sound.XML is now generated.
Use your browser to browse to www.sinsy.jp, upload the xml file,
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Sinsy.At this point, BiaB is waiting for you to manually load the file onto the Sinsy website. Pay attention to the path the BiaB gave you. In my example, C:\bb\data\SRequest\Sound.XML is the location of the file to load into Sinsy. 4. Just to make sure everything is cool, open the folder (in my example, C:\bb\data\SRequest) and verify the file Sound.XML is there. 4a. (Optional) If you're really curious, you can double click it and have a look at it. It'll probably open up in your web browser. XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is related to HTML, and is a structured tagging language. You'll find the syllables of your song embedded between <text> tags. Close the web browser when you're done looking at the file. 5. Open up a web browser, and navigate to http://www.sinsy.jp. 6. In the upper right corner, you'll see English / Japanese. Click English to see the web page in English. Edit: I forgot this critical step: Make sure the Language option is set to English!  7. There's a Browse... button on the web page for you to load your song into Sinsy. Click it. 8. A File Open dialog will appear. Navigate to the location where BiaB indicated the Sound.XML file was. In my example, it's in the folder C:\bb\data\SRequest. Navigate to that directory, choose Sound.XML and click Open to load the file into Sinsy. 9. Once you've selected the Sound.XML file, click the Send button on the Sinsy webpage to process your song. 10. The word Synthesizing will appear. Wait a few moments, and the words will change to Synthesis Results. There should also be a playback control. 10a. (Optional) Click the ">" button to hear the vocals. This verifies that Sinsy generated the vocals. 11. Now you need to copy the song from the webpage back to your computer. Right-click (i.e. click with the right mouse button, not the left button you usually use). A special context menu should pop up under your cursor with items such as: Open
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...Choose the Save target as... option. (In Firefox, the option is Save link as...) 12. Your web browser will open a Save As dialog. By default, Sinsy gives the file some automatic name such as "20140120071413_32118.wav". You might want to shorten the name of the file, but it doesn't really matter. Save the file somewhere you'll be able to find it, like your Downloads folder or your Desktop. 12a. (Optional) Once you've saved the file, you might want to check it. Open the folder where you saved the .wav file, and double-click the file. Windows should open up the media player and play the file back for you. Close the media player when you're done listening. 14. All this time, BiaB has been waiting patiently. Go back to BiaB, and press OK on the message dialog. 15. BiaB will open a BB File open dialog so you can point it to the .wav file you just saved. Using the dialog, browse to where the file was saved, and select that file. 16. If all goes well, BiaB will load the file into the Audio slot. This should be indicated by the Audio slot now being yellow instead of white. 16a. I noticed that BiaB didn't mute the Melody slot. You might want to mute it, or the melody instrument will play back with the audio. 17. Press the Play button, and your song should play back with the audio track from Sinsy. Did this work for you? If not, at what point did you run into problems?
Last edited by dcuny; 01/22/14 08:06 PM. Reason: I forgot an important step!
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Thanks for taking the time to give this thorough instruction path. I'm not sure everything you mentioned is happening when I open manual mode but I will try it a little later today, and again, thanks....Hank
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Strictly speaking, not all the steps are necessary. But if something is failing, you'll be able to identify where things go wrong. Unless BiaB is going to adopt something like Vocaloid, I think integrating something like SoftVoice is the way to go. That way, BiaB isn't dependent on some third-party tool that they've got no control over. Good luck!
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Well, just finished my last trial with it & conclusion: Sinsy the Singing Cat. PS i messed with vocaloid a while back, especially trying harmony vocals ..... got the same sort of results, funny but just not useful. - F
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Well, just finished my last trial with it & conclusion: Sinsy the Singing Cat....funny but just not useful. - F Great review, my experience exactly. Of course I remember when BiaB sounded pretty bad (especially in hindsight) too. Wouldn't be surprised if this technology get's a lot more useful in the future.
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For comparison, here's a demo done with Sinsy and BiaB: Words Like SmokeCompare that to a demo using the Vocaloid AVANNA and BiaB: The Water Is WideI've tweaked the syllables a bit in them, but I think they're representative of the sort of sound you can get out of them. Sinsy has a heavy Asian accent - she a lot of trouble with r and th, for example. They both come off as heavily retuned, because of the nature of the resynthesis. I've also had someone use the word "funny" when hearing it. Neither sounds like a native speaker. But to see how far vocal synthesis has come, here's 1970's style formant synthesis (my own code): Loch Lomand
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We explored Voice Synthesis some time ago, including having developed applications that use it. The field is continually improving. From the research that we undertook previously the Acapela Box product has potential, and also Ivona Reader . Note - these are voice, not singing, but in terms of phonetics and level of clarity, they seem to be significantly better than the Sinsy product.
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I am now able to navigate to the sound file but there is no XML extension attached to it. Vocal Synth follows the tune, singing six, six, six etc. and is also lagging by about 80 clicks ...Hank
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Most voice synthesis programs use training databases to generate transitions between frames (slices of sound). This captures all sorts of prosody information, such as pitch and stress. The approach is generally referred to as HMM (Hidden Markov Model).
Sinsy takes the same sort of HMM as Ivona Reader does. The fact that she's got a heavy accent actually demonstrates the strength of the approach, since it captures the speaker accurately.
But to do this same approach with singing, you would need a huge database to capture all the transition sounds at all the different pitch intervals. So it's not really practical to create a database that covers all the transitions.
Additionally, there are timing constraints in singing - something that vocal synthesis doesn't deal with at all.
So getting synthetic singing to work with "state of the art" vocal synthesis turns out to be problematic, to say the least.
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I am now able to navigate to the sound file but there is no XML extension attached to it. The extension is probably hidden, since Windows does that by default. So far, so good. Vocal Synth follows the tune, singing six, six, six etc. and is also lagging by about 80 clicks That's odd. Could you email me the XML file? I've sent you a PM with my email address.
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Thanks David
I will work on that tomorrow and I really appreciate your help...Hank
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I inadvertently shut down the forum before copying your e-mail address. Would you please send it again...Hank
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I just listened to you works. I felt that the second sample was better than the first, but both are fantastic. The BIAB backing is very well done. I enjoyed your earlier work too, the male voice and harmony parts. Wish I had more computer savvy ...Hank
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Hi, Hank.
You should be able to find the message by going to the menu at the top of the forum and picking My Stuff and Messages from the dropdown menu.
Thanks for the comments, but this is something that anyone could do with BiaB and a Vocaloid. I'm not sure what direction PG Music wants to go with vocal synthesis, but I think it's certainly an itch that some folk want scratched. Sinsy is certainly an inexpensive way to start.
The Sinsy code has actually been released, but I'm taking a vacation from coding for the moment. I might have a peek to see how they do the pitch shifting at some point, though.
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The thing is in its infancy, who knows at this point in time if it will develop into something usable in production, or perhaps into something along the lines of a Special Effect sort of thing someday, as in the overuse/abuse of Autotune to get the Cher Effect was.
But consider that there are some folks who cannot speak or sing anymore, like our own good forum member Don, who just might be able to get enjoyment out of their songwriting and demos from the use of this feature.
So many on this forum only see Band in a Box as whatever it is that they themselves want to use it for, there's plenty of room for all the other stuff as well, if you don't like a particular feature, style, addon or command in the program, just don't use it. There are likely others who view that same thing as their "must have".
--Mac Yeah, I certainly appreciate that sort of use and I have heard computer generated voices that were reasonably accurate but still artificial sounding...these would be great for someone who cannot speak or sing. But that demo was terrible and many of the words were not even remotely correct. Why would anyone want something so bad? You could hit a garbage can lid with a stick and get closer on many of the words! That's actually been done quite often. It's called reggae. (-: But I side with the nay sayers and can't imagine why PG spent 5 minitues on this feature. The issues go way beyond the technical ineptitude of voice synthesis to the very heart and soul of great singing which is PHRASING! Relatively few singers can phrase worth a darn and almost no non-singer musicians would have a clue. So "note based" vocal synthesis...even if the voice could be made to sound totally lifelike...would be doomed to sounding S...Q...U...A...R...E! (-: Jim
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Thanks for the feedback, Rutabago.
I just played around with the Matsua-P voice - it's fairly good, and seems not to have the sort of noise problems that the Xiang-Ling voice has.
I think I may have given Hank bad instructions by not mentioning that English needed to be selected in manual mode. His Sound.XML file renders just fine.
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"But consider that there are some folks who cannot speak or sing anymore, like our own good forum member Don, who just might be able to get enjoyment out of their songwriting and demos from the use of this feature."
Mac as Ive had health issues and hadnt been on here for some time I was taken back by what you said above..what has been the cause of Don not being able to sing or even speak? I absolutely agree with you for someone like Don this would be a wonderful piece of equipment,Thanks for posting it up Frankie
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Note: The Xtra Styles require the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition of Band-in-a-Box®. (Xtra Styles PAK 21 requires the 2025 or higher UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition. They will not work with the Pro or MegaPAK version because they need the RealTracks from the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition.
Band-in-a-Box 2026 for Windows is Here!
Band-in-a-Box® 2026 for Windows is here and it is packed with major new features! There’s a new modern look, a GUI redesign to all areas of the program including toolbars, windows, workflow and more. There’s a Multi-view layout for organizing multiple windows. A standout addition is the powerful AI-Notes feature, which uses AI neural-net technology to transcribe polyphonic audio into MIDI—entire mixes or individual instruments—making it easy to study, view, and play parts from any song. And that’s just the beginning—there are over 60 new features in this exciting release.
Along with version 2026, we've released an incredible lineup of new content! There's 202 new RealTracks, brand-new RealStyles, MIDI SuperTracks, Instrumental Studies, “Songs with Vocals” Artist Performance Sets, Playable RealTracks Set 5, two new RealDrums Stems sets, XPro Styles PAK 10, Xtra Styles PAK 21, and much more!
Special Offers
Upgrade to Band-in-a-Box® 2026 for Windows and save up to 50% on most upgrade packages during our special offer—available until December 31, 2025. Visit our Band-in-a-Box® packages page to explore all available upgrade options.
2026 Free Bonus PAK & 49-PAK Add-ons
Our Free Bonus PAK and 49-PAK are loaded with amazing add-ons! The Free Bonus PAK is included with most Band-in-a-Box® 2026 for Windows packages, but you can unlock even more—including 20 unreleased RealTracks—by upgrading to the 2026 49-PAK for just $49. Browse the full contents of each package and listen to demos here.
XPro and Xtra Styles PAKs Special Extended Until August 31st!
XPro & Xtra Styles PAKs Special Extended Until August 31st!
The XPro Styles PAKs and Xtra Styles PAKs special offers are now available until August 31st at 11:59pm PDT!
Ready to take your Band-in-a-Box® 2025 experience to the next level? Now’s the perfect time! Expand your style library with XPro and Xtra Styles PAKs—packed with a wide variety of genres to inspire your next musical creation.
What are XPro Styles and Xtra Styles PAKs?
XPro Styles PAKs are styles that work with any version (Pro, MegaPAK, UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition) of Band-in-a-Box® 2025 (or higher). XPro Styles PAKS 1-9 includes 900 styles!
Xtra Styles PAKs are styles that work with the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition of Band-in-a-Box® 2025 (or higher). With over 3,500 styles (and 35 MIDI styles) included in Xtra Styles PAKs 1-20, the possibilities are endless!
Get the XPro Styles PAKs 1 - 9 for only $29 ea (Reg. $49 ea), or get them all in the XPro Styles PAK Bundle for only $149 (reg. $299)! Listen to demos and order now! For Windows or for Mac.
Note: XPro Styles PAKs require Band-in-a-Box® 2025 or higher and are compatible with ANY package, including the Pro, MegaPAK, UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, and Audiophile Edition.
Get Xtra Styles PAKs 1 - 20 are on special for only $29 each (reg $49), or get all 19 PAKs for $199 (reg $399)! Listen to demos and order now! For Windows or for Mac.
Note: The Xtra Styles require the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition of Band-in-a-Box®. (Xtra Styles PAK 19 requires the 2025 or higher UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition. They will not work with the Pro or MegaPAK version because they need the RealTracks from the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition.
Don’t miss this chance to supercharge your Band-in-a-Box setup—at a great price!
Mac 2025 Special Upgrade Offers Extended Until August 15th!
It's not too late to upgrade to Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac® and save! We've extended our special until August 15, 2025!
We've added many major new features to Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac®, including advanced AI tools like the amazing BB Stem Splitter and AI Lyrics Generator, as well as VST3 plugin support, and Equalize Temp. Plus, there’s a new one-stop MIDI Patches Picker with over 1,100 MIDI patches to choose from, all neatly categorized by GM numbers. The MultiPicker Library is enhanced with tabs for the SongPicker, MIDI Patch Picker, Chord Builder, AI Lyrics Generator, and Song Titles Browser, and the tabs are organized into logical groups. The Audiophile Edition is enhanced with FLAC files , which are 60% smaller than AIFF files while maintaining identical audio quality, and now ships on a fast 1TB SSD, and much more!
Check out all the new features in Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac® here:
Purchase your Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac during our special to save up to 50% off your upgrade purchase and receive a FREE BONUS PAK of amazing new Add-ons. These include the 2025 RealCombos Booster PAK, Look Ma! More MIDI 13: Country & Americana, Instrumental Studies Set 22: 2-Hand Piano Soloing - Rhythm Changes, MIDI SuperTracks Set 44: Jazz Piano, Artist Performance Set 17: Songs with Vocals 7, Playable RealTracks Set 4, RealDrums Stems Set 7: Jazz with Mike Clark, and more!
Upgrade to the 2025 49-PAK for just $49 and add 20 Bonus Unreleased RealTracks and 20 RealStyles, FLAC Files for the 20 Bonus Unreleased RealTracks, Look Ma! More MIDI 14: SynthMaster, MIDI SuperTracks Set 45: More SynthMaster, Artist Performance Set 18: Songs with Vocals 8, and RealDrums Stems Set 8: Pop, Funk & More with Jerry Roe.
Learn more about the Bonus PAKs!
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