Using a voice synthesizer plugin with Musescore 4?
I'm working on a piece with a few vocal lines, and I'd really like to hear it with the actual lyrics rather than"oooh" and "aaah" to verify/fine-tune the phrasing and (hopefully) create a decent demo. Since I don't have any singers handy (and, like Leo Kottke, my voice sounds like "geese farting on a muggy day") I'm wondering whether a voice synthesis plugin might do the job.
Ideally I'd like something that can read the lyrics for a part, but to get pronounciation right the actual text input would look very different ("unionized" means and sounds very different things to chemists and labor organizers), so I expect this would require separate tracks (hidden in the printed score) with the phonetic lyrics.
In particular I'm looking at Synthesizer V from Dreamtonics (https://dreamtonics.com/synthesizerv/), but I'm open to any solution that's A) inexpensive (I'm retired, this is one of my hobbies), B) sounds resonably natural, and C) has multiple voices available for the different parts.
Does anyone out there have any experience with something like this? Is this possible/practical, or just wishful thinking on my part?
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I've heard synthesized vocals in a few Musescore files (although I can't recall the songs), so I know it's possible. But I don't know how it was accomplished.
>Is this possible/practical, or just wishful thinking on my part?
Keep in mind that there are approx. 140 different languages outside there, each of them with lots of dialects and pronounciation and different alphabets (chinese, japanese, mongolian, english, spanish, egypt ....). Its quite a task to support all of these. I dont think there is such a universal tool.
In reply to >Is this possible/practical,… by rhalstenbach
Synthesizer V only does English, Japanese and Chinese, depending on the voice used)
Synthesizer V can be used to generate an audio file from lyrics, but not in Musescore itself.
Howto:
-export the lyrics staff to midi (since some time lyrics are exported with midi) , or export to musicxml and transform to .svp (or .ustx) with Utaformatix - https://sdercolin.github.io/utaformatix3/
-import midi or svp file in Synthesizer V and tweak singing,,export to wav.
-export everything else in musescore to wav (all except the lyrics staff)
-mix musescore exported wav and SynthV generated wav in a Daw or something.
All of this can be done for free. Quality can be reasonably good depending on the work that is done in SynthV.
Something new: you might have a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1IIhuEb0w
(alpha version; beta to be expected in february). Not free.
In reply to Synthesizer V can be used to… by graffesmusic
Thanks! I'll give SynthV a try, and check out Cantai as well. Probably a few weeks before I can report back on the results...