Dreamtonics has revealed more details about their new version of Synthesizer V!
AHS Software
Miyamai Moca: Free from March 21st to April 30th
Others: TBA
Bushiroad
4950 Yen per voicebank, limited time until April 3rd for physical editions
Voicemith
Upgrading an individual voicebank: NT$1250 (Crowdfund), NT1450 (Post-Crowdfund)
Upgrading both Oscar and Xia Yu Yao: NT$2450 (Crowdfund), NT$2990 (Post-Crowdfund)
Eclipsed Sounds
SOLARIA, ASTERIAN, & SAROS: $20 USD
NYL: $5 USD
Audiologie (TBA)
- From user testing, Dreamtonics has concluded that sounding human, and sounding natural, are different things. SV2 is focused on vocals that feel natural.
- They want to improve dynamics and control.
- They aren't interested in making an AI composer, but they want to make the editing process as intuitive as possible.
- They've sped up rendering by 300% on modern machines, 50% on older machines.
- They showed an A/B test with Natalie in both versions of the software (will link to a timestamp when the livestream has ended) Kevin, Ayame and Felicia were also demoed.
- The software is still completely offline (no cloud). The increased speed is achieved in part with parallel processing.
- Vocal modes are knobs; the vocal mode's impact on pitch, timbre, and pronunciation can now be adjusted separately.
- Expression now has four points that can be adjusted, labelled 'Vibrant', 'Refined', 'Stable', and 'Raw'. Raw brings results closer to the original dynamics of the training samples, and will likely please users who feel SynthV homogenises their singers.
- AI retakes now has four options: pitch, timbre, timing, and all.
- Phoneme timing and strength is now adjusted in a panel at the bottom of the window, so you can see the duration of every phoneme visualised on the bar.
- You can add new control points and drag them across AI pitch curves, which will re-render around the point in real time.
- The pencil tool will try and fill in pitch curves, so you don't need to hand draw everything. You can still draw completely custom pitch curves if you want.
- Pitch bends move with notes.
- There is a new parameter called 'mouth opening'. This does what you would expect.
- Mentioned in the stream chat: it's backwards compatible with Synthesizer V 1 voicebanks.
Products to upgrade | Until April 20th | April 21st and after |
Synthesizer V Studio Pro | $39 | $49 |
1 Dreamtonics Voices | $19 | $29 |
2 Dreamtonics Voices | $38 | $54 |
3 Dreamtonics Voices | $54 | $69 |
4 Dreamtonics Voices | $69 | $79 |
5 Dreamtonics Voices | $79 | $89 |
Any number of Dreamtonics Voices | $79 | $99 |
AHS Software
Miyamai Moca: Free from March 21st to April 30th
Others: TBA
Bushiroad
4950 Yen per voicebank, limited time until April 3rd for physical editions
Voicemith
Upgrading an individual voicebank: NT$1250 (Crowdfund), NT1450 (Post-Crowdfund)
Upgrading both Oscar and Xia Yu Yao: NT$2450 (Crowdfund), NT$2990 (Post-Crowdfund)
Eclipsed Sounds
SOLARIA, ASTERIAN, & SAROS: $20 USD
NYL: $5 USD
Audiologie (TBA)
Overall I'm psyched by this new version. I really like that they're pushing the philosophy of more user control: this will give musicians even more options for creative tuning and interesting performances. And those new ease-of-use tweaks are much appreciated; pitch curves moving with notes and phoneme duration visualised on the piano roll are the two biggest selling points for me. Bummer: no glottal effects it seems.
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