Originally Posted By: Guitarhacker
Very impressive. I especially like the harmony vocals that are echoing the lead.

Hi, Herb.

The harmony is the fun bit. It's not something I sing well, so I having the synthesized voice do it gives me more free rein to not worry about how hard it is to sing. Normally I've got to pitch correct the heck out of my harmony parts.

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I could tell there was something synthetic with the voice but it didn't sound like a vocaloid I've heard before.

You can thing of SynthV as a Vocaloid, but put out by a different company and using different algorithms to reconstruct the vocals. I think it sounds a lot better than the English Vocaloids that I've heard, and it's certainly much cheaper. You can download and use the "basic" version for free.

Unfortunately, there's only one English voice that's available for it, Eleanor Forte. The main market is for Chinese and Japanese voices, so those voices have a few more features than Eleanor Forte. But I think the free voice is much better than the English voices I've used with Vocaloid. It has less weird artifacts and sounds more realistic. With the non-free editor, there's an option to use alternative versions of phonemes, which is also really helpful in getting it to sound right.

The SynthV website is a bit confusing to use, but if you're interested in trying the program out and run into any trouble, feel free to send me a message.

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So much to like about the song and it's evident the work you have put into it.

Thanks! It's probably the most "song" like one I've done so far this year.

Thanks again for stopping to comment. smile

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

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