Originally Posted by musician17
The "we're worth fighting for", I actually meant to ask you about. Is there a way, in the Synth V Studio Pro programme, to enter phonetics instead of normal English writing? I ask because there's always SOMETHING, some word that gets mangled when I write lyrics, and it would be (at times only, but nevertheless) great to be able to just enter the phonetics of the word I want sung. Any help in this direction would be immensely appreciated!
Yes, you enter phonetics in a number of ways.

Note that the English text is written inside the rectangular "note" on the piano roll, and the phonetic version is written above the note.

You can double-click on the phonetic text above the note, and write directly into that, which is what most people do.

Another option is to enter it where the English text go, but prefix it with a period. For example, ordinarily you'd write the word "hello" into two notes like this:

hh ax      l ow
[hello]    [+ ]

Note the ax is a relaxed vowel, a "schwa". If you wanted more of an "eh" sound, you could click into phonemes of the first syllable and enter the phonemes:

hh eh      l ow
[hello]    [+ ]

Or you could prefix the English part with a period as the first character, which tells SynthesizerV that that letters are the phonetic spelling:

hh eh            l ow
[.hh eh l ow]    [+ ]

Or manually break it across the syllables instead of using the +:

hh eh       l ow
[.hh eh]    [.l ow]

Because typing into the phoneme section overrides what's in the text, it can occasionally introduce errors if you decide to use a different word. That's because even if you put in a new word, the phonemes will still override it. So it's safer to type into the English section with the . notation.

Either way, you'll need to separate the phonemes with spaces. If SynthesizerV doesn't recognize a phoneme, it won't give an error, it'll just ignore it.

SynthesizerV uses the ARPAbet for English phonemes, so if you need help figuring out a word, you can use the CMU online dictionary:

http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict

You can find additional information in the online user manual:

https://svdocs.dreamtonics.com/en/synthv

Feel free to message me with any questions! smile

-- David Cuny

My virtual singer development blog
Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?

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