I think a good feature to have is the ability to mute one or more notes in the piano roll view. Rather than removing the words to making them silent. I was working on some backing vocals today so duplicated the lead vocal then i was deciding if i wanted some on a certain phrase. So it would have been really useful if i could have muted the notes in the phrase to see the difference.
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I would definitely use a mute words too
Or use a tried-and-tested sequence of phonemes. In my attempts at Czech pronunciation, it happened that the sequence of phonemes used was not heard. However, I didnāt need the silent tones for anything and I donāt remember any such sequence of phonemes. It want it to try semething it out if it seems like a good idea to you.
+1 to this. Would love to be able to right-click and choose āmuteā and also have a hotkey to mute selected notes.
@gauzde You make a good and simple point here.
I know it is a bit āclunkyā but you could enter garbage into the phoneme box on the piano roll, maybe a plus symbol. The result is silence until you delete that entry and SynthV will re-enter the correct phoneme string?
A script could work here with āsilenceā and ārestoreā highlighted notes options.
Maybe you can update only the phoneme (keeping the lyrics) by entering a sil for silenceā¦
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Thats what i was thinking. Just like you can do in a DAW. I was trying to get away from having to update the lyrics or phonemes.
Also maybe scripts can do it for you (one to put a sil and one to remove it).
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The sil idea is a reasonable workaround but far too clunky versus having actual support to do this. If I want to try muting 15 bars and have just the last phrase doubled, then after another 100 edits want decide I like having those 15 bars back, well, then I have to retype back in 15 bars worth of lyrics to get rid of all the sil that was added. A better ātemporaryā workaround would be to automate all their volumes to zero then you can delete the automation to bring it back. But this is still a poor workaround if those phrases had a bunch of automation that you wanted to keep. It would just be really nice and handy to multi-select a few notes and press shift+M or something.
I think it would be a nice feature. For my workflow, I wouldnāt mind if it triggered re-rendering of the non-muted notes or anything like that. But it would also be a feature I used sparingly (personally).
1/ Another method is to add a single note above, of the desired length.
This will mute all existing notes (without updating them) at the same positions. You can do this across the entire group of notes for several bars.
2/ For multiple bars, another solution is to duplicate the track and mute the original track. On the duplicated track, you can delete all unwanted groups to focus on a single group of notes.
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The idea here is to replace phonemes, not lyrics. To restore the voice you simply delete the phonemes and let the engine refill phoneme boxes from the still existing lyrics.
If a script was created then both āsilenceā and ārestoreā could easily work on any string of selected notes, single or entire phrase, verse, song?
I actually wrote two scripts; one to silence the notes and the other to restore them. I attached them below if anyone is interested.
Silence.lua
Restore.lua
thanks,
Peter
Yes, a good way for your workflow (waiting for better from Dreamtonics).
In my side, I wrote only one (MuteNotes) by duplicating notes (to mute/unmute) without updating lyrics or phonemesā¦
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Oooh, thatās my favorite workaround yet. Simple. Fast.
Yes, spot on. The potential to mute makes trying out optional phrases a lot easier and faster. Unbelievable omission, Dreamtonics!
Yes! We need this! I would use this all the time.
With version 2.1.0, a new āMute Noteā option is now available in the āModifyā menu! With the default shortcut āCtrl + Mā.
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I didnāt notice it, hey thatās great! Thanks for letting me know. Have a good day.
What I do for this - IF it is for monitoring and I wonāt be using cut/paste: select the notes and Ctl-X to cut them. Listen, then paste to restore.
Itās a bit risky, but when itās just for monitoring - and you wonāt be interrupted and forget what you were doingš - itās a useful workaround.
But having the mute option is a LOT safer. Didnāt know about, thanks.
Thanks for the info, I did not know.