Thanks. Sorry for the repeated nags. I’ve gotten conflicting answers on various fora. SV seems unique to me in a few ways
a) How many people seem to be playing with it and…
b) How UN-mainstream it is…
I back that up by the dearth of Cubase-centric videos and the fact that the product seems fairly ‘polished’ in stand-alone mode, but the integration with Cubase seems pretty immature. I keep coming back to Melodyne in both those regards. Or maybe it’s just that it’s an Asian product, with completely different userbase and they don’t -need- traditional ‘DAW’ users.
And that’s a bit scary in the sense that this thing has so much potential. IOW, I can’t wait to see a variety of ‘choirs’ that can actually ‘sing’ realistically without any of the current ‘wordbuilder’ nonsense.
IMO SV with the Solaria voice it is wonderful and now that I have been using it for around six months it it is very fast to navigate and I encounter very few issues.
The one remaining Plug-In problem I can’t live with is that the bars in SV don’t match with Cubase, The bar lines, the bar numbers… all wrong. Even when I check the ‘Synchronize’ menu option.
So, does that mean that SV doesn’t play well with tempo changes and/or time signature changes? Are there specific ‘rules’ one needs to follow in order to keep the SV timeline in sync with the Cubase timeline?
SV allows the user to easily insert tempo and time signature changes so they align with Cubase. It is not optimal to the extent that SV does not chase the Cubase tempo track but it is still workable.
My experience is as follows:
SV will follow Cubase’s tempo changes if they are stepped, but not if ramped, and the points are at the start of the bar. As long as the option to follow DAW tempo changes is activated, of course.
The grid of the SV editor will always start at bar 1 so if your cubase project has any bar offset you will need to remove that so it also starts at bar 1 in order for bars numbers to match up.
Signature changes will need to be entered into the SV editor grid. SV cannot read these from a cubase signature track
Tempo and signature changes can both be entered directly onto the grid of the SV window at the start of any bar but will not be then reflected in Cubase.
SV will follow the Cubase tempo track subject to the limitations outlined in my post further up the thread. At least, it does here .
Singnatures do indeed need to be manually edited on the SV editor grid, again watch out for any cubase project bar offset.
This could be due to the difference between working in Instant Mode, where the modulations within and between notes are generated by the AI depending on the surrounding material. Numerous takes can be generated of individual notes or phrases and then the most suitable resulting takes can be selected and comped together .
If Instant Mode is not activated, then these within note modulations will be generated according to the defaults as defined for the voice you are using. Once instant mode is deactivated pitch and othe r continuous parameter data can be edited in lanes much the same was as one could with CC data at the foot of a cubase key editor window.
One thing i have noticed is the UI is not exactly perfect either in terms of layout or readability, it took me a while to find everything, even if I put my glasses on!
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The background voice is Solaria? Yes Synthesizer V seems to be setting the bar pretty high at the moment. The vocals are so good that you can even use them as main vocals
However, not all voice packs are in English, the selection is a bit smaller (most of them are probably Japanese/Mandarin etc).
The ARA integration in Cubase sounds very interesting.
Yeah SynthV is like a dream come true because I can write music and lyrics, but not sing. I’ve been able to get Solaria to sound like a male singer with a bit of tweaking in this linked song. I was planning to only use it as placeholder for the male vocals until I could buy one of the male ones, but I ended up liking it enough to just keep it. It’s kind of funny because Solaria is then doing both male and female duet then.
Yes! and I was blown away with the results!
I can’t stop writing songs now that I have quality singers.
However, the integration with Cubase (12 at least at the moment) sucks.