I have been trying to accomplish my goal of making my first short original song using a vocal synth + a DAW (either Vocaloid, CeVIO, Synth V, whatever-- I just want tips from producers), but am intimidated and having a hard time finding a good work flow to combine the singing with the background music.
I have tried making the singing in isolation in the standalone version of vocal synths like Synth V and Vocaloid, where the singing is broken into parts for my ideas on the melody/lyrics, but obviously the spacing is wrong because there is no background music to time it to.
I have tried working on just the background music in Studio One (I also have FL Studio but am not very good at using it), but I don't get very far because I worry about "What if the timing or these notes has to change when I bring in the singing, what if I have to rearrange a lot of stuff for both the BGM and singing?".
I get some progress at each task by themselves, but am not sure how to combine them. Or WHEN to combine them? Am I supposed to write the BGM completely, and then put in the singing? Or do I work on the BGM a bit, and start adding singing so I can tweak both?
When Vocaloid or Synth V is linked to a DAW, you can only hear the singing if you play the audio in the DAW itself, you can't hear the singing in the vocal synth software like you can in their standalone versions (the playback bar just won't move until you press it in the DAW). It seems really slow and awkward having to test out how the singing is going between two programs, basically, and I quickly want to give up because it's not very easy to work with.
I have seen that the human voice sounds like a clarinet, so do producers plan the singing while making the BGM, but just use a clarinet or something like that, export those notes as a MIDI to import into Vocaloid (for example), and just replace that MIDI sound with words when they're finally ready for lyrics in the end?
tl;dr Please give me advice on when to switch between lyrics (vocal synth software) and BGM (DAW) and how to do it so it's not overwhelming. Thank you for your time.
I have tried making the singing in isolation in the standalone version of vocal synths like Synth V and Vocaloid, where the singing is broken into parts for my ideas on the melody/lyrics, but obviously the spacing is wrong because there is no background music to time it to.
I have tried working on just the background music in Studio One (I also have FL Studio but am not very good at using it), but I don't get very far because I worry about "What if the timing or these notes has to change when I bring in the singing, what if I have to rearrange a lot of stuff for both the BGM and singing?".
I get some progress at each task by themselves, but am not sure how to combine them. Or WHEN to combine them? Am I supposed to write the BGM completely, and then put in the singing? Or do I work on the BGM a bit, and start adding singing so I can tweak both?
When Vocaloid or Synth V is linked to a DAW, you can only hear the singing if you play the audio in the DAW itself, you can't hear the singing in the vocal synth software like you can in their standalone versions (the playback bar just won't move until you press it in the DAW). It seems really slow and awkward having to test out how the singing is going between two programs, basically, and I quickly want to give up because it's not very easy to work with.
I have seen that the human voice sounds like a clarinet, so do producers plan the singing while making the BGM, but just use a clarinet or something like that, export those notes as a MIDI to import into Vocaloid (for example), and just replace that MIDI sound with words when they're finally ready for lyrics in the end?
tl;dr Please give me advice on when to switch between lyrics (vocal synth software) and BGM (DAW) and how to do it so it's not overwhelming. Thank you for your time.