Anybody happy with Vocaloid?

[jokerone]

I just found out about this product today. The demos I’ve heard range from pretty good to completely worthless.

Most of the worthless ones were someone on youtube trying to be “cute” and like overdubbing a Queen video with the their own lyrics. So I’m guessing they didn’t care how it sounded, just slop it together and get it out on the web.


The male (tonio) opera singer sounds great if he is singing in Italian, but he could be butchering the fuck out of the language and I wouldn’t know. I heard a Tonio demo of the Beatles’ Yesterday and it sounded like a British singer who had a good voice, but who was vocoded, so that would be pointless for what I'm after.


I’m looking for a male voice that can sing blues/rock/jazz type songs. The Leon voice seems to have merit but I don’t want to buy 8 year old technology.

Anyway, is Vocaloid the flagship of this technology or is there something else I should be looking at (besides a real person )?

thanks

 

[VomitHatSteve]

I've got a copy of Prima (which is, I believe, the same generation as Leon.) It sounds really cool, especially if you want weird robot effects out of it. (Getting it to sound cool is way easier than getting it to sound human.)

The UI is pretty clunky, and there's a tendency for the software to pronounce phonemes a little strangely. There is an incredible level of control though. If something doesn't sound right, you can manually swap out individual phonemes and putz around with velocity, pitch accuracy, "gender", etc.

I don't know of any comparable competition.

 

[jokerone]

I just found out about this product today. The demos I’ve heard range from pretty good to completely worthless.

Most of the worthless ones were someone on youtube trying to be “cute” and like overdubbing a Queen video with the their own lyrics. So I’m guessing they didn’t care how it sounded, just slop it together and get it out on the web.


The male (tonio) opera singer sounds great if he is singing in Italian, but he could be butchering the fuck out of the language and I wouldn’t know. I heard a Tonio demo of the Beatles’ Yesterday and it sounded like a British singer who had a good voice, but who was vocoded, so that would be pointless for what I'm after.


I’m looking for a male voice that can sing blues/rock/jazz type songs. The Leon voice seems to have merit but I don’t want to buy 8 year old technology.

Anyway, is Vocaloid the flagship of this technology or is there something else I should be looking at (besides a real person )?

thanks

Thanks.

I actually found one of the company's (Zero-G) is having a sale right now on their older stuff. So I picked up the Leon version 1 for $49 yesterday.

I'm not a fan of buying old software, but for $49 it was worth a try.

I didn't get a much a chance to play with it last night. I'll have more time next week. I'm guessing this stuff is more popular in Japan because of the Japanese language itself being easier to emulate than English.

I might also get the Lola version as well before the sale ends at the end of the month if I'm pleased with the Leon version.


thanks

 

[aortaSound]

I use it often!