Other Software Omnivocal by... Yamaha?

[BANKARA_TEEvie]

In a shocking turn of events, Yamaha decides to both reinvent the wheel and keep it exactly the same, as it rereleases what feels essentially like Vocaloid 6 (or even vxb, which got a release anyway) again, but in an even more "professional vst" package.


It has pretty much the same features, and functions in the same real-time way as VXB - and I honestly don't know what this means for Vocaloid? Perhaps just an attempt to have a more professional business-y rebrand, or something like voisona, but it appears the big gimmick is mainly that it's built directly into Cubase. We killed Vocaloid for Cubase for this.

It supports English and Japanese (no Chinese!), and has two voicebanks at the moment - give it up for Male and Female, everybody! I'm serious

 

[sunnyp4rk]

I imagine Yamaha probably wanted a version of VXB that doesn't require buying V6, and also appeal to non-Vocaloid fans. Still an odd thing they decided to randomly drop lol

 

[Stoo-S]

Of course there's nothing pointing in that direction other than my gut, and I don't mean to be that guy but... those portraits look like something a generic Generative AI would make...

Also that logo is not really readable, like, I get what they were going for with the "M" and "N" looking like sound waves but it just ends up reading like "iVocal" to me.

Interesting that they are using Arpabet for the phonemes, tho. Don't know what that means, just something I noticed.

 

[parallax_fifths]

those portraits look like something a generic Generative AI would make...

They certainly do. The image resolution is low, but not low enough to completely hide the waxy appearance that is common for generated images. Although I wouldn't be surprised if some manual touch up took place.

 

[WyndReed]

Man, those images do not fit the vocals at all. Anyone else notice how it pronounced air as AR as well as some other words? That logo is terrible too, it looks like "oivocal" instead of omnivocal.