Originally Posted By: Mark Hayes
The opening vocal has a different quality, is that the new kid? A chompier attack, more vibrato, more energy. Closer to human.

It's the Anri voice. I think it's got a voice which is a bit more youthful than Eleanor Forte, and probably not the best match for the lyric. There's another voice that's available (now that the Japanese and Chinese voices support cross-lingual synthesis) that I'd trying to get a hold of that I think would work better.

But you use what you've got, right?

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Excellent production, but of course, of a solid composition.

Thanks! It wasn't until the final polishing of the song that things started falling into place. Halfway through the lyric, I would have sworn it would never work.

Goes to show what I know! wink

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I hope you don’t really think of these pieces as mere demos because the singing is synthetic!

Well... yes, that's exactly why I think of them as demos. They give a good performance, as do the string samples. But given my druthers, I'd prefer a slightly more nuanced version.

Most of the improvements are on the side of the software, not in my own skills. But I also think that "writing to the instrument" is also part of it. Things that the voice can't do at all will get thrown out in the compositional process, and things that work well I'll lean into - like being able to write cool harmonies.

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PS – It is good, I think, not to overly focus on the synth aspect by posting the bot specs in the title. One actually has to read through your post quite a ways before one gets that, oh, this will feature an other-than-human singer, and I like that.

Yeah, dropping that was intentional. Most people on the forum who listen to my songs already know I'm using robots.

And.. .well, one actually has to read through my post quite a ways to get to anything, don't they? laugh

Thanks for stopping by and commenting!

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

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