Originally Posted by floyd jane
So this is becoming more and more interesting...

A Question - because I know little about this stuff...
I don't know how the synth voices work or are programmed, but...
If one took Janice's vocal and loaded it into Melodyne - to show where the notes are/go would that give you the data you need to perfectly recreate that note-pattern in the voice synth?

Just curious.
Of course, if you had a Janice vocal, what more could you need???

Hi floyd.

Synth V is essentially a piano roll editor. The notes and timing of the melody are represented as rectangles on the piano roll.The only difference is that words or syllables are entered into the piano roll's rectangles. Synth V then uses the piano roll to get the pitch of the note and the syllables to construct the shape of the vocal sound. A non-Dreamtronics manual is below if you want to have a look through it.

https://manual.synthv.info/

Here is a list of phonemes for the various sounds.

https://pdfcoffee.com/synth-v-english-phonemes-list-pdf-free.html

Synth V automatically determines the phonemes that will produce a syllable. Sometimes, though, it is better to override this with a manual phoneme.

So to answer your question, Yes, Melodyne would analyze the vocal and convert it to a MIDI file. This MIDI can then be read into Synth V and will give the pitch and the timing of the notes. Once in Synth V, the notes' pitches and timings can easily be modified by dragging. Someone would then need to add the words or parts of words to those pitches. Adding lyrics is actually quite quick since it can be done in blocks of notes as well as single notes.

The basic version of Synth V is available for free use and the "Lite" voices can be installed to experiment with. The "Pro" version of the software uses AI and the voices are a little more versatile (from what I understand). The free voices are available at the link below.

https://resource.dreamtonics.com/download/English/Voice%20Databases/Lite%20Voice%20Databases/

I hope that all this helps in some way. I'm really loving playing around with it. I'll post my Natalie and Kevin duet in the next couple of days so you can have a listen.

--Noel

P.S. Apologies if you know all the above. As I was unsure what to tell you, though, I thought it wise just to post it all smile

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