Hi everyone,
Here is my first attempt at using solaria and Saros within the context of a gospel song.
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Beautiful song! I understand that the voices can sing in a church (so strong reverb). But maybe we can place the ambience closer than that. The voices seem too far away from the other instruments (so close). This is just a mixing suggestion.
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Thanks for the commentary I have to admit that working with vocals is a pretty new thing to me. And I completely agree with you that the voices need to be closer, meaning less reverb.
In my upcoming project, I am working with a various modes of SAROS. He has everything from falsettos to soft and if you can buy them together, you can get a really realistic R&B singer.
Haven’t heard anything like this before with SynthV voices. Great job applying them to a different genre! Agree with the previous comment about the vocals in the overall mix though.
That’s a very interesting song, and something I want to try myself once I am a bit more familiar with the program.
I want to ask: did you add additional samples (especially for the shouts - “Yeah”, “Whooo” - in the beginning), or are all the voices Solaria and Saros only?
Hi, sorry for a late response.
The additional add libs Come from another sampling pack that is part Of my hardware keyboard, tyros yamaha
Here is a new version with adjusted vocals
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This version is with less reverb, for sure. But I actually prefer the first one. The church ambience seems more realistic than a concert hall. When I said “closer” for the reverb in my first answer above, I meant “just closer” (not turning off reverb). But if you prefer a concert hall to a church, that’s another mood.
The singing with SAROS seems too far in the scene (volume mix) of the instruments’ song. Some of Tyros’ singing voices has its own reverb, and seems to be at a different level (distance in the scene) than the one set by SAROS currently.
My advice is 2 options:
1/ The best thing is to cut off all reverb from the Tyros for each instrument and voices generated. And then, put your own on each one. Add your Synthv voicing with the same setting and adjust the distance on the scene for your singers.
2/ The other option is to keep the prefered settings from the Tyros and use it as is. Then you try to reproduce with you own reverb on SynthV voices the same settings. Adjusting also the distance on the scene.
Managing a reverb is not a simple thing as you know but in this song it is a little more complex because there is many elements.
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Hi first of all, I really appreciate the thorough and detailed feedback. One of the drawbacks of using Tyros is that the output as a stereo channel so I have to record each instrument as a separate stereo feed. So I think option two is the more viable way forward
I am working on another soul based R&B piece of music and I will apply your options into that.
Again, greatly appreciate Taking the time to listen and give me feedback
Claudio
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Wow, I’ve got a lot of work ahead of me. I do gospel as a musician and songwriter but now this technology unlocks the virtual singer in me lol.
Here’s a sample of how I’m training myself to get the gospel choir feel down.
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Well, I for one like the voices. I agree that the mix of those voices need some work to bring them up front and take advantage of their realism. That said, I would love to see how you built the voices for the tone and pitch shifts to make such a fantastic bluesy gospel sound. Please share… I want to learn the techniques you have applied.
Amazing! I had heard samples of Saros’ voice on the Dreamtonics website and thought it was great, but this is even better than I expected!
But what surprised me even more was SOLARIA’s backing vocals. I was surprised at how soulful she is!