r/SynthesizerV

Hi everyone!

I'd like to tell you about my new album "Zen Flows", released today.

https://open.spotify.com/intl-it/track/4ZAzQex4IjogYZuDAL15w9

https://music.amazon.it/albums/B0H6B3ZWD1

This is the kind of music you would put on while you are trying to relax, sleep, focus, meditate or in general avoid external distractions.

I was working on it since last autumn, when the whole idea came out after trying to record a windchime I bought in the US during a trip last summer. That simple session (which resulted in a youtube seminal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEZyR-l-LQs ) evolved into a deeper idea: creating an immersive, organic relaxation experience where every single element had a human and natural touch. If you wander on my youtube channel you will discover I love to record myself playing all kind of weird instruments!

It was an interesting journey, I tried to make something cool but still personal, while maintaining the original idea

I combined minimalist piano lines and quiet pads with an array of acoustic instruments, including: tibetan bells, windchimes, native flute, didgeridoo, rainstick coupled with ambient sounds recorded by myself (sea waves, birds at dawn, rain, water flowing, even my heartbeat...)

My main goal was to create something polished, personal and evocative while keeping the original vision intact. In a market currently flooded with generative music, no AI was harmed during the recordin… this is 100% human-made even the cover artwork is a beautiful hand-drawing made by my wife :P

I'm also more than happy to discuss the recording process or the gear used for the field recordings if anyone is interested. I have used cakewalk Sonar to record everything. Piano are mostly from NI Noire and IK Pianoverse (its ambient background is fantastic for this purpose) while pads are from NI Komplete, EW, Korg M1
I have also used Dreamtonics SynthV to sing some mantra ("Om - Shanti") in the track "Inner Tao"

I thought it was the right place to showcase it! :)

Im making a cover of Rot for clout with Miyamai Moca, and somewhere when i was importing the svp by jamie paige, checking out the lyrics and stuff, i saw this..?????? How does it work? (If you dont get what im referring to, its the notes that arent in the grid but inbetween the two.)

https://x.com/hasei01/status/2061397193077252533/photo/1

I've noticed that for short melisma notes if the next word has consonant like "F" it cuts into the note making it almost non-existent. Is there a way to close this gap so the "F" phoneme stays right where it is, but the vowel phoneme is extended to it? Yes, I can drag the lines, but it moves both not just one.

Credit to Yasuntage for this cool method.

Welcome to the club, everyone here’s been disconnected every POWERX bank, rest in peace she will be missed

So I was on Youtube and I saw this video "I'm a chud song (Kasane Teto Cover)" by KyuKai and I saw this pinned comment and it just made my blood boil a little bit so I wanted to see some other people's opinions on it.

I'm still sort of new to Synthesizer V, so I'm still trying to learn how to tune vocals. Got any tips I can use?

I see a lot of people questioning why their faves didn't get the success Teto had when they transitioned to another engine, or got that AI update, and I feel like we need to explain what made Teto's transition successful, to explain why others didn't have the huge boom.

We have to start with Teto's origin, and as a character. She released as an April Fool's prank, fooling people into thinking she's a new Vocaloid, but when the truth got out that she wasn't coming, people have labeled her as the "Fake Diva, that wanted to become a real Vocaloid". Now she received a voicebank on UTAU. An engine that functions like Vocaloid, but due to the third-party creation of it, and how it was amateur in comparison to Vocaloid, UTAU wouldn't have much of a competitive chance against Vocaloid (tbh I think UTAU is lowkey better than Vocaloid, in terms of realism, because I have seen some people who have used UTAU to make voices sound so much more realistic than Vocaloid, that I almost thought a human was singing some of these songs).

Even though Teto was confirmed fake, she still had a very big presence within the Vocaloid scene, appearing in fanart, concerts, and original songs, some with Hatsune Miku, to where people to this day, still confuse her as a Vocaloid.

When Teto received her Synthesizer V voicebank, it became a big deal. Even though it wasn't her true goal, rather to become a Vocaloid, since Synthesizer V is considered to be the industry standard vocal-synth engine, despite it being (and still) niche compared to Vocaloid. It felt like Teto had finally became a serious commercial voicebank, that she no longer had that "Fake Diva", status. And I believe that this transition to Synthesizer V instead of Vocaloid was the much better option.

One thing that I noticed in the modern fandom, is that most of the new characters getting attention, are on other engines outside of Vocaloid such as Yi Xi, KAFU, Adachi Rei, Chis-A, Solaria, Koharu Rikka, Zundamon, UI (bleh), and others. While there are new characters coming to Vocaloid such as Fuiro, Po-uta, Vocal no Ci-Chan, and Hibiki Koto, they never had that much fanfare, in the fandom, and I think it's mainly because Vocaloid 6 voicebanks are not the industry standard voicebanks compared to the competition. With SynthV being the standard, new characters getting popular on other engines, and Teto having her "Fake Diva" status, her Synthesizer V switch just became more popular.

Which also explain why other characters didn't get a spark of popularity in comparison. There were UTAUs that did go to Synthesizer V, but didn't see much of a spike was for many reasons. 1. They didn't have that "Fake Diva" Status, and didn't have a huge amount of global fanfare during their UTAU days where the switch changed their status (All of them). 2. They had their voicebanks before the AI craze (Yamine Renri, Haiyi, and Cangqiong). 3. Some were native Chinese voicebanks, and chinaloids don't get much fanfare in the global fandom in comparison to Japanese voicebanks (XIA YU XIAO, OSCAR, Haiyi, and Cangqiong). 4. Their UTAU voicebanks were private, so people weren't even able to see what they were all about before coming to SynthV (Haiyi and Cangqiong).

There were also other Vocaloids, well known ones like GUMI, Una, and Kiyoteru that got into Synthesizer V, but also didn't get that spark because, like I said in the last paragraph, they didn't have their "Fake Diva" status. They were already the industry standard voicebanks, on the industry standard at the time Vocaloid, especially with GUMI, since Internet Co. wants to make the highest quality voicebanks they can have at the time. It didn't feel like a shift in character, but the natural evolution to what's hot at the time.

Other UTAUs also got Teto's wish, such as Macne Nana, Macne Petit, Shiki Rowen, Gekiyaku, Kazehiki, Nurse Robot Type T, and soon Adachi Rei, and Ooka Miko, but they didn't receive too much fanfare because they are UTAUs that did have a certain amount of popularity, but not enough to have seats with iconic Vocaloids such as GUMI and the Piapro Charcters in terms of memorable songs. Adachi Rei would be the closest to it, but I honestly think she won't get a spike in popularity, because she already has a huge fanfare in the modern Vocal Synth space, her coming to Vocaloid, may be a status, but she never had the "Fake Diva" storyline to really change her. Especially since most people know her for having a garbage voicebank, seeing that same garbage quality voicebank, but now on Vocaloid isn't really going to make people choose Vocaloid over her, especially since she has a Diffsinger voicebank, so why use Vocaloid, where there's a version of her for free. Ooka Miko may be in the similar boat with Teto in terms of being a Vipperloid, but she doesn't have that big amount of popularity Teto has had to see the character have a big shift in character.

So in conclusion, Teto's SynthV transition became a hit due to her label, her release, and the contribution she has done for the community before the switch.

If I had to describe this, I’d say it’s like Evil Magnet but stretched across 6 songs. Teto is the main singer for the first 3 songs.

Listen to the full thing here:
https://youtu.be/5gWyxSkEuuY