Has anyons used SVS in tandem with another other voice bank/software. I’ve been checking out Audimee and was impressed with the range of voices available – including rock and metal.
As a test, I took a Hayden vocal track and converted it to an Audimee voice and was really impressed. I hate to say it but the Audimee voices are really good. The software doesn’t seem to allow midi creation though, which is why you’d need the two in tandem. Otherwise, you can upload your own vocal and pitch correct it etc before mapping.
Anyone using SVS as a bass vocal track to then enhance voa some other bank?
HCS
Note: the biggest downside to Audimee is cost – $25/month USD
I rejected Audimee as being suitable for my needs. After a few attempts, I found out that they do not have a vocal treatment, where there is a certain inconsistency of tone in the Growl technique, which I use from the tone D2 and below. Growl is used a lot by metal singers, where instead of the dominance of normal vocal cords, there is a dominance of Vertical Eyelashes, which are above the vocal cords. They have the advantage that singing with this technique can use higher volumes. At a singing volume of this level, it would be possible to kill your vocal cords when using the vocal cords. Growl is also used by female singers at higher tones (the technique is popular with female singers in Japan). I use this technique when singing in the contra octave (C1-B1), where tones from F1 and below are more of a demonstration tone. I have the lowest tone, which logically belongs to the song - Gis1, and I have D1 as a demonstration tone so far. Audimee converts my tones with this technique to a much higher tone, up to the point of whistling. Synthesizer V Pro does not have this problem. It only classifies lower B1 tones as B1. And that can be used and is easily fixed. Vocoflex has no problem with this technique. I use this technique with Asterian (Eric Hollaway has mastered this technique at a professional level - I only at an amateur level). Audimee has been successfully used and is still used by Kenta Johansson, with whom I communicated on this topic in the previous forum. Kenta is not yet in the current forum. My ego is also manifested in this and I want to have AI singers under my supervision and full control. I do not interfere with live singers’ singing in my songs, they have full freedom.
I’ve experimented with it. SVS has the great advantage that you can export a completely clean audio track for it to work with, which is a kind of best-case scenario for audimee.
The thing which is really odd about using it is that it really doesn’t re-sing your track at all. It’s as if you have a knob like a treble or bass control but one that allows you to change who sung it. The remaining characteristics of the singing are not changed at all, so if you put bad vocals in, you’ll get bad vocals out. The phase, etc are completely unchanged, but that can mean that you can get weird cancellation artefacts if you try to use it for double-tracking.
It also seems to strip out a lot of the feel; if you’re varying the timbre of the voice in SVS, most of that will be lost in the audimee version, so it all comes out a bit flat and bland. Still cool tech though!