there is a lot of interesting thoughts about hpvsynth's realvoice plugin on places like vi-control... obvs i think there is a lot of misunderstanding with people outside of this space. but i have had people saying things like "well i will just using realvoice on my own vocal recording for this cover. i think id face copyright problems if i just ripped it from the original singer"
okay so. lets think about this. of course i or others can react with "but how would they know?" however i will be a bit more deep about it. i mean for one if you can sing it it does feel a little pointless but, despite that. if you used praat and got your pitch bends from the original and you didnt say anything, itd be impossible to argue its not yours, especially with plugins that smooth out all those wiggly accurate lines. and even if you didnt use realvoice... you could still 100% copy it by! hand! yourself!! maybe you just listen by ear and you get it right. and what then? is it still wrong to learn, and want to replicate?
i like realvoice not even to make constant covers out of, but really just to learn. if youre learning how singers sing from that, or just by ear... it literally just cant be plagiarizing or stealing and trying to apply this to voc synth tuning causes a lot of issues. even without this realvoice stuff people have ALREADY been trying to mimic singers in their voc synth covers. the concern only came up the moment people talked about 'ripping' pitch bends recently. however.... this isnt the first tool to exist for this. vocalistener for vocaloid exists, and people just thought it was the coolest thing (it was hell to use tho) (continued in comments...)