I bought Noa HEX from Audiologie and have some questions about it (some of the phonemes are very weird, breath noises are way too aggressive and loud!), but I can’t find any forums or support info for them. Does anyone know if they hang out here, or where I can contact them?
From his bio :- “NOA” is a record producer, rapper, singer-songwriter and bass guitarist.
What genre are you using him for?
You could contact the providers at Audiologie - Contact Us, I doubt they have ever visited this forum.
Thanks for the link – I’d missed that page. These issues don’t sound like genre clashes, more like bugs and things to fix in the phoneme dictionary. The breath sounds are significantly louder than the normal voice, sound like he’s about to asphyxiate, and are hardly quiet enough even if I reduce the volume level in the phoneme view as low as it will go in SV2. This is entirely unlike Solaria, which has much quieter and far more believable breath sounds.
Here’s an idea for you…
You know you can send out separate channels to your DAW for the voice and voice noises (aspiration - including breath)
Well, you can balance these as you wish for different flavours as shown below:
Here’s Noa HEX singing as normal.
Here’s Noa HEX with the voice noises turned down (-10dB) any further and he has a speech impediment (you may like this???)
Here’s Noa HEX with the voice noises turned up (6dB) and an added EQ boost at 1800Hz where the breath noise is.
You could also quite easily just cut the EQ at 1800 to reduce the breath noise on a normal track output - no need to separate the channels. (But isn’t it fun to experiment…)
For this test I used SV1 as I haven’t downloaded any SV1 voices to SV2 programme. I wish to use SV1 for SV1 voices and SV2 for SV2 voices at the moment. SV2 is, however, equally capable of separate channel output for voice aspiration.