In terms of more authentic choir sound, this announcement from VSL sounds promising also:
I did, yesterday. Subject line: Live Cantai Gilbert & Sullivan MadLib — you supply the words
Thus far, I find that the all the current vocal synthesis options invariably fall into two categories:
- Pop (like Synth V), with all the scooping and upward portamenti, which render it useless for most choral music, or
- Operatic (like Cantai, from what I’ve heard so far), with a solist sound and often a heavy vibrato, thus rendering it useless for for most choral music.
I know that there are adjustments and work-arounds in these apps to correct for the constant pop-scooping and default vibrato, but I still await the day when we will see a true CHORAL library.
Given the fact that most people, if they participate in sung music of any kind, will sing in a choir (certainly more than they will be pop soloists or sing grand opera!), I find it baffling that more developers don’t capitalize on this enormous market.
Steve M
As an early Cantai adopter, I have been able to test it in Musescore — my lifetime licence is for all apps.
We know about the languages limitations. For me, the biggest problem is how dynamics are rendered. I don’t know how this will evolve, but as it is, it treats dynamics as a cc7 (or volume fader) which is a real big problem for me.
Again, only time will tell.
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Interesting, thank you for posting this. I have different libraries from them, and they are all of excellent quality.
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So far no one has mentioned Cantāmus, a subscription service which allows you to upload vocal scores with the lyrics in MusicXML format and produce one or more audio files of the selected voices. I have not tried this service myself, but the demos I have heard suggest that the results are closer to the sound of traditional church soloists than other vocal synthesizers.
I used to use Cantamus regularly to make demos for my choir for perhaps two years. I’m sorry to say the odd pronunciation and robotic delivery was just too wearisome, and I dropped it, much to their relief.
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I had not seen this!
What’s interesting today (a quarter an hour ago, exactly) is that we have a date for the Dorico version : April 30.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
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That date might relate to Daniel in this post mentioning the next update they are working on.
Until now Richard (Cantai) has not really given any specific dates or timings, so to me at least, this sounds more believable, and he said it would be about this time it would be available in Dorico, in a post last year.
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