What ways are there to make a vocaloid sound stronger? I've been listening to my work, and I realized Meiko sounds kinda... bored I guess is the best word? Like there is no anger or strong emotions in her voice? I have no clue what to do. Thanks!
Adding strength to vocals
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Your mileage may vary, but something I do sometimes is duplicate section I want to have more power, transpose it up an octave, and play with the volume until it sounds layered. You could also try parallel compression or duplicating the audio and applying some distortion to the duplicate!
For strength, looking at vocal production tutorials for real vocals will actually provide some useful tips! Layering different takes as funkyzukin suggests is how real singers add depth and body to their voices. Try rendering the same section with different tuning, and layer it. Make sure it's different enough to avoid phasing! (When two identical sounds play at the same time, and cancel each other out.)
For emotion, this is primarily achieved by making the performance more dynamic. Bored singers are monotonous, singing with a flat pitch and an unchanging tone/volume. So adding more dramatic pitch curves, vibrato, and dramatic crescendos will give the Vocaloid more emotion. Going subtly off-pitch at a natural moment can add a lot of intensity.
You can also add emotion by adjusting the timing of phonemes. When angry, for example, people may stretch their consonants or become more staccato, with sharp breaks between words.
But the best way to imitate any emotion is to get good reference. I recommend downloading an acapella of a song that's sung with the emotion you want, then putting the dry signal into a program where you can see the pitch line. If you have access to it, SynthV's audio to midi convertor works very well with dry audio (dry as in no vibrato/backing singers, there exist online tools to remove these). Then you can analyse exactly how the pitch of the singer is changing to produce the emotion!
Thanks a lot lIlI! I'll try those when I can. I did not know about going off-pitch. I found somewhat erratic vibrato can help somewhat, but the rest will be very useful.
To funkyzukin, I'll try that. I've tried to do that before, and it just made it louder, but I will try going up an octave.
To IO+, here is a recording of the main one of the tracks. Sorry if the quality isn't great.
To funkyzukin, I'll try that. I've tried to do that before, and it just made it louder, but I will try going up an octave.
To IO+, here is a recording of the main one of the tracks. Sorry if the quality isn't great.
From what i head it seem to lack accent and clarity. You can increased the accent parameter and adding brightness to help bring the clarity of the voice. drawing a pitch with dynamics help a lot, since English VBs doesn't work like japanese VBs, it can not use note blending method, so only option is to draw a parameters (pitch, dynamics, brightness etc) manually. After that you can mix it in your DAW of choice, mixing is very important.
