SynthV Synthesizer V Studio 2

[Twillby]

WHY THE LIPS I can see it though, it does kinda look like she's mirroring Monika's pose... just missing the pen that will write the way into his heart /ducks tomatoes (Funnily enough I was just thinking of doing an SV Iroha cover of the song since my favorite Youtuber is playing the game)

I was a little surprised at first that Frimomen got full MVs and Teto got static lyric videos... though they did the same thing for her SV1 (just checked), so I guess it was just a choice on Twindrill's part? Guess it does make sense since she was already so popular from UTAU that they're more focused on showing off the vocal rather than the character overall.

I love all of the new vocal modes ahhh Mini sounds like it's going to be super fun to play with especially, and I really like Silkymen too

 

[Bookworm2]

My opinions on Teto's new vocal modes from the demos!


Rock: The strength we needed from Power. It sounds really good, and will 100% be a godsend to the rock artists who want to get in on the Teto trend. She sounds like she's yelling into the mic sometimes, which is good!

Low: The other end of the spectrum. She sounds soft, and a little sad. Maybe similar to a whisper voice, which is good! It sounds best for sad ballads and maybe songs similar to Patchwork Staccato. It sounds good, but I get the feeling I won't be using this much, as I don't particularly care for whisper-type voices, and if I do need one, I'll just use Meiko V3.

Mini: Very cutesy, and surprisingly similar to UTAU Teto. Upbeat and joyful, though not exactly my cup of tea. Not much to say here, just a cutesy and similar to UTAU voice.

 

[morrysillusion]

the "mini" one surprised me when i heard it! very neat sound to implement into a vocal mode and i imagine satisfies those who are still strong fan's of how teto sounds as a utau. an interesting way to bring that into her SV voice.

 

[Leon]

I'm not sure these got posted but here are their uhh all-modes medley demos AHS makes

 

[lIlI]

Teto and Frimomen SV2 are now available to trial!

 

[morrysillusion]

Dreamtonics released multiple new voices:

 

[lIlI]

These more involved demos showing a bit of how to use the software and isolated vocal modes are much better than Dreamtonics' SV1 demos. They look like they'd be especially useful for new users.

Unfortunately I'm not all that impressed by Danny and Etta - they both have fuzzy, over-saturated artificial noise muddying their samples, particularly in their stronger modes. Their pronunciation is also strange and mumble-y, with word stresses feeling slightly off and an overall 'cotton-wool balls in mouth' quality to their enunciation. They sound a lot less natural than previous voices on the engine, which is surprising given realism is SynthV 2's stated goal.

 

[Leon]

I like the new demo style, and I think they sound nice! But I will say, I think it's time to give up on a Spanish or Korean alphabet soup. DT doesn't seem interested in doing one

 

[lIlI]

A new beta version of SV2 is available to test!

It includes in-engine EQ, doubling feature, reverb, and a visualisation of musical scales (this is actually very useful for me specifically, haha), and more. A bit odd to add DAW features to the engine, but I understand the vision for people who use the standalone for quick demo vocals.

 

[Alphonse]

They'll show you the musical scale but there's no snap to scale? Still? What are they doing?

 

[morrysillusion]

They'll show you the musical scale but there's no snap to scale? Still? What are they doing?

what do you mean by "snap to scale" feature?

 

[parallax_fifths]

what do you mean by "snap to scale" feature?

Snap-to-scale is a feature that prevents users from entering notes outside of a selected scale. For example, if you were to choose C Major, snap-to-scale would only permit you to enter notes that are found in C Major. All other notes would be disallowed.

Of course, such a feature is only useful for those that stay strictly within a single scale. If you use chromatic notes, key modulations, or even swap between different types of scales (such as whole tone scale to double harmonic scale), then such a feature is annoying/useless.

 

[Alphonse]

Snap-to-scale is a feature that prevents users from entering notes outside of a selected scale. For example, if you were to choose C Major, snap-to-scale would only permit you to enter notes that are found in C Major. All other notes would be disallowed.

Of course, such a feature is only useful for those that stay strictly within a single scale. If you use chromatic notes, key modulations, or even swap between different types of scales (such as whole tone scale to double harmonic scale), then such a feature is annoying/useless.

Not really. In Reaper I use snap to scale to quickly create harmonies. I take the lead melody, turn on snap, and drag it down by about a fifth and that creates a harmony line. Of course, if I have chromatic notes or borrowed keys, it won't be perfect... so I just correct the incorrect notes.

 

[parallax_fifths]

Of course, if I have chromatic notes or borrowed keys, it won't be perfect... so I just correct the incorrect notes.

That sounds annoying to me.

 

[Alphonse]

That sounds annoying to me.

It's just the chorus I use it for, and it's like one or two notes...

Edit: and it's certainly time saving compared to doing it all from scratch just because there's one or two chromatic notes.

 

[parallax_fifths]

When working in SVS2, I sometimes solo a track to make fine adjustments (basically the new pitch control points thingy). However, when exporting, I occasionally forget to turn off the solo button. When this happens, only the solo voice renders correctly, with the other voices rendering as complete silence. And this is despite check-marking every voice in the render dialogue window.

Is it just me, but if a voice is checked for offline rendering, shouldn't it fully render regardless if solo and/or mute buttons are activated for real time playback?

 

[morrysillusion]

i think this was a problem back in SV1 as well and i have done this MANY times. so many times. muting certain tracks when editing and then exporting all tracks, but ending up with silent ones because they were muted. and then of course i dont realize it just rendered silence until i open up my DAW and drag them in.

it is certainly annoying, and itd be nice if they changed this as it seems more like a bug than a feature lol.

 

[sunnyp4rk]

It's definitely a problem with SV1. I've done it too many times to count. It seems like an oversight they never thought about fixing and then SV2 inherited it.

 

[lIlI]

Good news! We can now download previous versions of voicebanks from Dreamtonics' website. As voices often see tonal changes with updates (for example: Hxvoc becoming less gritty), this was much needed.

 

[parallax_fifths]

It’s good to know that I wasn’t the only one finding that to be strange behaviour.

Speaking of which, any opinions on the filename saving options? Specifically the addition of underscores for certain portions of aggregate filenames?

For clarity’s sake, in the “FileName” box I can enter something like “Current Project - ” (excluding the quotation marks) and then name individual vocal parts something like “left vocal” or “right vocal”. However, when rendering individual files, SVS2 creates an aggregate filename that adds underscores to the vocal names, but not the general filename header. For example, “Current Project - ” and “left vocal” becomes “Current Project - _left_vocal.svp” instead of “Current Project - left vocal.svp”

Maybe it’s just me, but not only is the inclusion of underscores inconsistent, I also think they’re ugly and unnecessary. I mean, it’s not the 1970s and I’m not using CP/M.

In other news, I cannot hear the aforementioned squeaking in the Teto SVS2 voicebank. However, it is still audible in other SVS2 voicebanks that I own. Does that mean that the squeaking was/is a voicebank data issue rather than a general SVS2 engine issue...?