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  • dug up a very nicely tuned vsqx in my files i have had since 2016 and while i knew it would be hell to edit it to synth v (all the note bending...help) ive sat down and just editted it for the past 5 hours and only just got the main track done. typically i wouldnt do this but the file it so good and Anri sounds real nice with it so... we'll see if i finish this lol
    does the cross-langauge update not work with the AI lite banks...? (yet?) notably there was no update for them but they definitely dont work. i can choose the language for eleanor and anri to sing (both full banks) but not saki AI or rikka AI lite versions... was hoping to try the lite versions before considering any of them as english options :/
    Prism
    Prism
    It should be a lite function for that reason of testing it out and maybe one day it will be. But for some reason probably how expensive it is to train banks the lite banks don't get updated very often like lite rikka is still on gen 2. If you need a render or anything I have rikka.
    morrysillusion
    morrysillusion
    @Prism yeah im definitely annoyed a bit that the lite banks apparently dont get to do this. i mean, theyre kinda for testing the banks before you want them, and its a shame they arent being updated as frequently, mostly now with this new function :/ hopefully itll come at some point but knowing the lite versions havent been updated nearly as recently makes me think that may not happen... may have to reach out for renders to get an idea if i dont start seeing more examples of their english usage
    Prism
    Prism
    From plugin her into different English songs files. Rikka is very cute sounding she's closer to Macne nana instead of gumi or maki in terms of English but she doesn't seem forced or unnatural just Japanese accented.


    Here's a comparison of her Japanese bank with edited phonemes vs her English cross lingual bank.
    hmmm if anyone knows how to purchase Qing su let me know? i thought the page iw as at was for digital, but the check out page shows stuff like shipping cost, as if its going to deliver. not sure where the digital page is or if i need to check something else on the page...
    hmmmm the thoughts on how to expand my synth v voices is hard to decide on... ive definitely had interest in saki and qingsu and id love to get them but. decisions...
    the potential to buy more Synth V voices i can Actually use in my own music production has increased and im overwhelmed!! i pretty much put down the idea of buying non-english banks because like... its just too much of a hassle for me to get the right sound in my english songs. but that has changed now and ill have to see what people do with this development so get an idea of what voices i may buy.... im just blown away as someone who constantly makes japanese vocaloids sing english... it is a lotta hassle and now all that hassle has been removed from synth v basically.
    morrysillusion
    morrysillusion
    i dont buy vbs anymore to collect, music is a hobby and buying loads of random voices Just Because is not ideal in the long run, even more so when its digital anyways. so as someone purely choosing voices out of interest for making original music, they really opened the door to a ton of possibilities now and im just amazed tbh
    morrysillusion
    morrysillusion
    also a peek at that new male english voice in that demo too... 👀
    i keep listening to music that is so inspiring and making me go "yes i wanna make music again!!" but in between all my attempting to move out for the first time its been a bit too hellish for me to sit down and make music. i sit down and instead draw or write bc its what i know and music is still like... difficult enough that its really draining to do and its not really 'relaxing' in the way i can just not care when i go to write and draw lol. soon hopefully... really hoping to get moved out soon.
    waiting for solaria is so annoying because im sitting here with some wip covers and im like... ok well maybe eleanor or anri sounds good but... what is solaria works too..... i want to have all the possible options before i settle on a voice dfkjhgdfkg
    morrysillusion
    morrysillusion
    mostly when said new voice may potentially fit the high powerful range far more than ele or anri has.... ill def be using solaria's lite bank (they were making one right?) before jumping straight to buying her as i only have ele and anri due to preorder. but im eager to see how she will sound once shes out and i can try her out. as much as i dont mind my preorders of ele and anri i can say my expectations were a little higher for some aspects of them so, im not gonna jump on solaria the second she releases
    i havent had a drive to draw any vocaloid stuff- i typically dont unless its for a cover- but i have been drawing a lotta humans lately because of my hyperfocus on hot wheels acceleracers/world race.... fyi i have been into it for a Long time but i had a proper mental break from a lotta stressful things and for the first time in ages im drawing something Different that i really enjoy which is dudes from a crappy hot wheels cartoon. and im very happy without how my art is looking- i was in a burn out for like... a YEAR but i wasnt even aware bc i kept pushing myself to create under pressure.

    i dont post off topic art here, and its all on my hot wheels sideblog on tumblr zed-36, but i wanted to share some under this spoiler bc im just really happy with my art again after a long time!





    been taking things loose and not really doing more than sketches right also because i am learning CSP and its weird lol. but it is so refreshing to pull myself out of that burnout with something i am really enjoying (for the many who likely dont follow me anywhere i have been drawing cats nonstop for the last year and its been hard for me to break away from for very complicated reasons with my ocd lmao.. addicted to validation and pressured by the way creators are expected to create content regardless of burnout, yadda yadda)
    strange pronunciation with synth v i thought i was just going nuts listening to this but the phonemes put in by the engine proves it
    "losing" you know... "im losing my mind" "youre losing the game" etc

    [ ow ]...... it keeps putting this like "low-sing"????

    even better i put "loosing" because i decided to take the double o's literal and see if it worked and it did


    i dont even think its a real word to put -ing on "loose"?

    i feel like im crazy and there some new definition and pronunciation to losing that i didnt know about. genuinely looked up a dictionary to make sure i was thinking of the right sound lol.
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    yeah ill definitely consider that. i think i had some other words come out weird before but didnt notice- very strange... i was hoping to use synth v a little more because i like the use of "+" but some issues its giving me with phonemes and some other bugs or crashing is a bummer. may stick to vocaloid to laying down my base file for now
    mobius017
    mobius017
    "Loosing" is actually a word, although I think it's pretty uncommon. I usually see it when describing letting something fly/go/get launched. For instance, "The Nottingham soldiers took cover as Robin Hood began loosing his arrows." Or maybe, "Loosing a torrent of muttered curses, the disgruntled prima donna stormed off to her dressing room."

    I'd think that most people would never use "loosing" in everyday speech, though. It seems more archaic, or like flowery language for writers, maybe.
    morrysillusion
    morrysillusion
    @mobius017 yeah- obviously not a common word...the dictionary sites kept pointing me to "loose" as a definition too, not "loosing" so. it definitely sounds like an old-timey word to use haha. its strange how the synth v dictionary has these two words set up as i would never consider typing 'loosing', but some of my work arounds have already included me typing in more "literal" spelling (oo = [uw]) in order to get the right sound
    does synth v have like.... a problem with "-" notes and moving them.......... im just trying to break up this long note for pitch bending it with notes and it has crashed like 5 times after i move around these "-" notes and they overlap. wtf. its not super consistent either
    morrysillusion
    morrysillusion
    bummed this cover just... is not working in synth v right now aside from the crashing the numerous - notes i need to have just like... do not work, synth v wont sing them right at all :/ i do hope they patch up the less stable parts soon bc i do like the voices in the program but now that im using it more myself im seeing it has a lot of bugs.
    Rylitah
    Rylitah
    I've heard that Synth V mostly bugs out on Windows and that Mac users rarely encounter problems? I don't know how true that is but there was a fairly popular twitter thread about it and all the Mac users said they've never encountered anything like the Windows users have. I'm one of those Windows users though, so... yeah I know exactly where you're coming from orz

    A new update was actually launched earlier today though to address bugs - hopefully this fixes your problems! (or at least... makes the program usable OTL)
    morrysillusion
    morrysillusion
    HM thats interesting. i never really questioned if synth v was being produced with one OS in mind over the other so if that is the case thats a shame... i feel like synth v is really lacking some touch ups in many areas right now so i hope they focus on the bugs for a bit and not making major changes to the engine with generation updates. i submitted my bug to the forum as the new update didnt seem to mention my issue-- but im gonna mess around and see if it does it again.
    god being physically sick like with a flu is just the worst feeling, i forget because i havent gotten sick at all. and even right now its just my covid booster (and before that, my vaccine). im achy and tired and have a headache and all i have in my brain is to do nothing forever because this gross feeling feels like itll never go away
    mobius017
    mobius017
    Ugh, that sucks. If my experience is any indication, the day after the COVID shot (particularly the second dose; the booster and initial dose were increasingly milder, in that order) was the worst, but the discomfort was basically gone the day after that. So hopefully you'll feel better soon!

    Thank you for getting vaccinated! :love:
    morrysillusion
    morrysillusion
    i have luckily returned and i am most recovered haha :'D the day of always sucks... still stuffy but its also cold and rainy right now so its making that a bit worse too.
    probably wont any anri covers to share as im a little unsure on What to make her sing but for now i will share this little plug in:

    i already feel like she will fit very well into my instrumental/originals style so i plugged her into this yung lean cover i did a few years ago with eleanor- i remade it in 2020 to a more stripped down sound and i think she sounds lovely. its very soft and i prefer her way of pronouncing over eleanor... there is very very little tuning here, no gen applied. but i feel she will fit into a lotta what i like by making her voice a little deeper with gen.

    intrumental by me as stated. also a few words are a little odd as its what og eleanor sang and i forgot to alter it
    tbh as much as i can criticize the lack of "unique" english AI voices i really of course love that we are getting any at all because 1) gotta start somewhere to see if people like what theyre given, before doing something more out there, right? 2) i really think anri, eleanor, and solaria will complement each other very well... i feel like all three of them could work in harmonies with each other. excited to see what people may do with all of them together! im much more for Anri and Solaria over Eleanor right now, but theyre all welcome additions to at least seeing the library of english AI voices expand with their success and use
    wew. things have been kinda crazy but in a good way. im taking a step to move out of my house (which i have lived in my whole life, with my dad and bro) which i only really delayed on so much (no matter how much i wanted to move) because of my mental health. in 2018-2019 i was still have a really hard time mentally even with the therapists i was seeing. but early 2020 i finally found a therapist who has helped me in ways i never expected. it feel good, and strange, to look back and think "wow, i really have gotten better."

    if there is any one way i can define this change its confidence. before i was really stuck in my trauma. i was angry with everyone around me, i hated having to deal with them everyday, but i was alos terrifed of everything on the outside because i feared it would just repeat and repeat forever. cptsd but me on defense mode in a way that isolated me from making real progress. i hated living at home because of that-- and my negative opinions on my family still stands even after my mindset changing on How to think of them lol. but coming to push their issues away in order to accept it wont change and its not my job to change them has given me peace in where i am right now, but also the confidence to face whatever the world will be like. i need to move, for me, for my health, for my independence.

    ive been doing therapy since my mom died at 16 bc i couldnt do it with her grasp on me, and even by the time i was 20 i still was jumping around looking for the kind of healing that worked for me. ive found it, and after almost 3 years of that, its just insane to me to think "i got better" no matter how much more work i have to do. 20 year old me would have never thought it
    morrysillusion
    morrysillusion
    thank you <3 it is so impossible to know there is a point where "getting better" happens. its always so easy to dismiss the idea, mostly when you have yet to know what its like. i always wanted that "getting better" but it seemed so impossible in the moment... so its crazy to feel like its happened
    Josh Kouki
    Josh Kouki
    It is very interesting, since this would bring up the idea of what we think is possible and is not is merely limited by the constructs of our minds..in a sense anything is possible, but it also seems easy to believe when it isn't. Hopefully makes sense, I'm happy you are better! It is inspiring in a way :).
    morrysillusion
    morrysillusion
    yes thats true, i know what you mean. it really really makes a difference to "learn" confidence, and that IS the hard part. mostly in my situation and i know many others- trauma sadly knocks down a lot of that, and combined with other disorders like depression and anxiety, even more so. in many cases too its easy to feel like you are protecting yourself when youre in that trauma induced mindset of not changing, not making the big step, etc. its exactly what therapy has done for me though- teaching me methods to deal with the present and my symptoms, so i can also re-route how i think about everything else. for context, the therapy i do is DBT (dialectal behavioral therapy) which is mostly for mood disorders but has also been useful to those with cptsd. it is a very good therapy for digging into changing that mindset that gets you stuck in such a "hopeless" kind of present. in the end its a lot of work! all therapy is, no matter what lol. @Josh Kouki
    man going back to the first solaria demo- obvs that bank iirc was monopitch/incomplete even. but it really shows how much the effort put into the new bank makes all the difference in quality. i get some ppl may like her tone in the og demo but i see nothing but improvements in the near finished AI bank, i really dont care what shifted about her original voice lol
    i saw a few ppl mention eleanor AI's lack of difference using the tension parameter and ya know i thought maybe my standards were too high, but turns out that really is the case. like, Saki AI has a very noticable difference in the tension parameter... for ele AI is kinda just feels like her voice becomes more or less soft? but with Saki, i feel like she gains a pretty obvious head voice on the softer on, mostly when in the high range. but i just dont hear it with ele. i wonder if they lacked some data to make that work? maybe it will be patched in later...? i do think ele is a upgrade in many ways and much prefer her to the old standard banks, but i was a bit put off by that to say the least, as it is a parameter i look forward to the most in synth v.
    me: i want to hear new songs like not people just using the same passed around cover files ya know
    brain: ah! what if we did that?
    me: wow great idea!
    me:
    brain:
    brain: you have to. make the file. from scratch. if you want to hear something new
    me: oh
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    i am in an endless loop of hoarding blank MIDI files and never having the energy to do anything else with them
    morrysillusion
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    i also admittedly want to comm some people to make some midis for some obscure songs (bc i absolutely dont have an ear for midi making) but i am also afraid theyll just sit in the unused/untuned phase forever;;
    MillyAqualine
    MillyAqualine
    Me with most of my fave songs / songs that'd be interesting to get heard covered with a vocal synth
    i think my system hard drive may be dying....which would be a surprise, its not old, and only half full (its 4 TB) but i may back it up and switch to a different drive to see how it runs just in case.... and this my friends is why activating your vocaloids to your internet card and not your system drive is a good idea!
    morrysillusion
    morrysillusion
    yea ill have to pay attention next time i turn it on because it was quite noisy- ill have to see if it "clicks" at all. the thing is, its the system that shows its using all of the HDD, definitely no other software (unless its something i cant see in task manager). so im unsure if its really windows 10 (which idk why it would- this has been over multiple months and updates) or if the drive is just dying and putting a lotta stress on the system... definitely no other softwares or anything, i do a Lot of PC trouble shooting (sadly i have too much expirience with crappy PCs and have basically become a computer nerd due to it lol), and not much is pointing me in the direction of "why" the system would do that other than the HDD physically having an issue/dying.

    its internal SATA, 3.5 HDD. ill see about the cable, i would expect it to be fine (this is a very new PC) but anything is worth checking since ive been through all the basic scans/checks lol. ill still backup and get this alt drive prepared for startup too in case the cable does nothing (tho tbh i cant recall how old this drive is so i may just seek out a new one. ill also have to see if theyre under warranty... we have had some for a while and a few came from my various prebuilt Dell PCs sooo not sure about that.

    @MagicalMiku
    Nokone Miku
    Nokone Miku
    May be unrelated, but try setting your internet connection to "metered." My computer was constantly sending data to the Microsoft mothership until I did that. The computer would be sitting there with nothing running, but the hard drive and network usage was going constantly. I told it my internet was a metered connection and it stopped doing that. It was a brand new Windows 10 laptop, so it wasn't spyware.
    morrysillusion
    morrysillusion
    i may try that, honestly anything at this point, tho it is notably at start up (for 20-30 mins). im about to copy everything to a new disk as well so we'll see what issues persist....
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