FYI - there's another vocal synthesis program that's being developed called Moresampler. It's specifically targeted at singing synthesis.

I started working on another song (using synSinger) after listening to Don's song based on Yesterday's chord progression.

Unfortunately, BiaB has a lot of "undocumented features" when it comes to the lyric mode.

Here's a fun use case of a dizzying, but (mostly) benign bug:

  1. Create a new song.
  2. Enter notation mode.
  3. Choose Editable Notation Mode.
  4. Click in the first bar to enter a note.
  5. Scroll to bar 5.
  6. Click on bar 5 to enter a note.
  7. Click L to enter Note based lyrics.
  8. Click L to exit Note based lyrics.
  9. Click L to enter Note based lyrics.

When you click the L to enter the mode, several (wrong) things happen:

  • The screen draws bars #1-4. BUG
  • The screen draws bars #5-8.
  • The note on bar #5 is drawn red, to show its active.
  • The note is then re-drawn in black. BUG

It's a bit dizzying, but apparently benign.

But after working on the second half of the song verse, I found that the lyrics to the first half of the verse had become corrupted. (This has happened on multiple occasions, but I've yet to find a use case to duplicate it).

So I deleted all the lyrics (not the notes) using the Edit Lyrics dialog. I then pressed the Play button, at which point all the notes vanished. mad

I've send in a bug report on that one.

Also, has anyone noticed in the Copy Special dialog there's on option Copy 1st Chorus to whole song that's set on by default? sick I sent in a bug report on this as well.

Anyway, as you might have guessed, what started as a "fun" project to play with vocal synthesis in BiaB turned into a complete waste of time (except for filling out bug reports). mad

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?