Originally Posted By: firesong
David...first off love the song...just a simple sweet love song...how many billions have been made with that formula?

As Paul McCartney wrote, "...what's wrong with that?" wink


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I am so intrigued with the AI voices...as I enter my seventies I've just about used up any vocal abilities I possessed but I still want to write and produce songs in my home by myself (the singers I know think they have lives of their own...what gall...right?) and this looks or I should say sounds like the future for home producers...So I'm going over to the Synthesizer V website and look around...is this really hard to do?


The program isn't hard to use, but it's not especially friendly to older folk. About a year ago they hired out a German UI firm to redesign the interface, and the result was the program was more spiff, but had relatively small fonts and low-contrast colors. The scrollbars can sometimes be hard to find. That's the downside.

But it's not hard to use, and if you've ever use piano roll notation, you'll be right at home.

Then again, I'm a computer programmer and geek IRL, so what do I know? wink

One really nice thing about the program is that you can download and use the Basic version of the editor with the Lite voices for free.

The Basic version of the editor doesn't have a limit to the song length, and will let you have up to two songs. That's plenty to get started with.

Eleanor Forte is the only native English Lite voice available, but at the end of this month a Lite version of the Solaria voice will be released. There are currently no Lite native English male voices. But you could take the Eleanor Forte voice and move the slider to the "Male" side - something I did before the "Kevin" voice was released.

It's probably easier to figure out how to download the editor and voices from the ANiCUTE website than it is to use the Dreamtonics website.

Click here for a link to some video tutorials.

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do I have to be a programmer or a geek or a super musician to pull this off?...did I say I liked the song yet? Well...I DO.

Thanks! smile

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

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