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Vocaloid Avanna
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 7:28 pm
by braincell
Nice progress since the first Vocaloid back in 2003. Due out next month from Zero-G (after many delays).
Since Yamaha owns the Vocaloid technology and Yamaha owns Steinberg, I wonder if there will be a tie-in with Cubase eventually. The last Vocaloid demo I tried didn't integrate very well with Cubase other than the sync as I remember it.
http://youtu.be/xqzMzN5Qu50
Re: Vocaloid Avanna
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 7:41 pm
by dante
It should be integrated so that it can extract phonemes from a guide vocal (like siri) to create vocaloid phonemes and vari-audio derived from the guide voal to determine the vocaloids pitch on those phonemes.
Basically, you record a guide vocal, and after processing its rendered on playback sung by Avanna's voice !
Re: Vocaloid Avanna
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 10:44 pm
by garyb
it works much better in Japanese, just from the way the symbols represent sounds. you type in the words, play the melody in via midi and go.
i've seen a couple of last year's
Hatsune Miku concertsand they were pretty darned amazing, live band with holographic Vocoloid animated singers...
Re: Vocaloid Avanna
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:28 am
by Neil B
I had such high hopes when I bought Lola
At last I thought, a woman I can train, teach and do exactly what I want.... easily.
Shows that you shouldn't buy your women out of a catalogue
Re: Vocaloid Avanna
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:44 am
by garyb
no, buy them from a reputable dealer so that you can see what you are getting.
Re: Vocaloid Avanna
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 5:39 am
by braincell
dante wrote:It should be integrated so that it can extract phonemes from a guide vocal (like siri) to create vocaloid phonemes and vari-audio derived from the guide voal to determine the vocaloids pitch on those phonemes.
Basically, you record a guide vocal, and after processing its rendered on playback sung by Avanna's voice !
Great idea.
The usually tight lipped Zero-G is saying that this demo represents an older version of "Avanna" and that it should be better when it's released. I hope there will be improvements to the GUI as well.
I thought the original and subsequent Vocaloids sounded muffled. I didn't want to have to EQ it to death to overcome that. This one sounds better to me. Looking forward to new demos of it. Seriously considering this one. I think with all the autotuned voices that people are ready to accept a synthetic voice. It sounds real to me in places. Of course it is derived from samples. Maybe they will do a punk version.
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Update:
Seems to be a rumor that the voice of Avanna is from the singer Sharon Browne from the group "Celtic Woman."
http://youtu.be/HUlYY52q_xw