Help with glissandos/slides between notes

Synthesizer V Studio
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I’m a new user of Synthesizer V Basic (Free), and am a elementary music educator (male) who wants to make some audio files for my students to sing with, such as “Poison Pattern” games. As this is a school, I’m trying to do this as inexpensively as possible, and free is good.

I have the application and Eleanor Lite; and as I enter notes or import MIDI (for example, from MuseScore 4, which imports text!), Eleanor Lite slides between pitches. I have tried to create lyrics with solfége that match proper phonemes. E.g. “doh” instead of “do.”

I don’t want short notes, but I also don’t want slides between notes.

I have been trying to research how to stop the sliding between notes, but there isn’t any clear answer via Google, and Synthesizer V videos seem to go very deep on answers…when it seems like there should be an easy way to ask the application to “just sing the notes without scooping or sliding between notes.”

I don’t seem to be able to attach a MIDI file to this forum post (some formus allow this) to share, but for example, if I was to have students sing DOH, ME, SO, ME (all quarter notes), there is a distinct slide down from SO to ME, even worse for SO to DOH.

(These are not proper Solfége syllables).

If you have solutions for this issue, I would love to hear them!

Thank you!

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The best way is to add ‘cl’ at the end of the phoneme. This introduces a glottal stop, you will then need to shorten the length of the ‘cl’ in the note properties to taste.

The only thing I don’t know is whether the Basic version gives you this level of control?

Here’s a visual example…

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…and what it sounds like

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You can add a .cl phoneme between notes as well and avoid the glottal stop. Further, if you swap the Pitch mode on a note to Manual you’ll also be able to change the pitch transition length between the notes. In such a scenario you’ll probably want to put a .cl phoneme between the notes lest you end up with a flat pitch that sounds very robotic. Then again that is a sylistic decision.

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Thank you, Bobox and Leon; the .cl added phoneme is doing what I need it to do; I do wish that the program just had a way to turn off the slides between notes (I would think that would be easier than generating the slide in the first place). However, that gets me under way as I need to, to start working on this project! Many thanks!