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,
and press OK here when you have a file returned from
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! blush

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
Open in new tab
Open in new window
Save target as...
Print target...
...

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 09:06 PM. Reason: I forgot an important step!
-- David Cuny
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Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?