Dorico in Synthesizer V

I’m creating songs using Synthesizer V, an advanced VOCALOID plug-in. I’ve managed to get it to sing in Dorico, but I don’t know how to control the volume of Synthesizer V. It doesn’t seem to work just by writing control information on the routing track like normal. If anyone knows, please let me know.

Synth V is really intended for DAW use, so it does not notice dynamics in a notation program like Dorico.

I also find it messes with the VST assignments to other parts, so I usually generate an audio of the accompaniment and import it, as well as vocal MIDI, into SynthV or Cubase to produce the eventual audio demo.

So there is almost no point in using synthesizer V with Dorico. I found other people’s articles using synthesizer V with Dorico, so I assumed it was possible to use it. But why can’t it accept the same control change?

Haven’t used Synthesizer V, but I wonder if inserting a gain plugin, such as Kiloheart’s free Gain plugin, might help.

Thank you for your advice. I can see it in Japanese, so I think I can install it. But can I program it? Can I link it to synthesizer V?

The only way that using SynthV with Dorico makes sense at the moment, is to sync the plugin to Dorico’s playback, which it will happily do!
You’ll have to get MIDI Into SynthV in another way, it will not just sing the notes from it’s stave/channel in Dorico. It will likely record the MIDI, but that’s a pain in the neck…
By it’s very nature, SynthV is not a realtime plugin, since the engine has to render the voice first. That would be likely possible in about a second (a la Noteperformer) but the plugin doesn’t know how to do that yet…
If Yamaha/Steinberg were to purchase Kanru’s company, use its tech in Vocaloid and make it work with Dorico, that would be another story entirely…

Benji

I may have asked a silly question because I had not yet mastered synthesizer V. I wanted to decrescendo a long tone, but I realized that I could just program the loudness. There was no need to process it from Dorico.

Hi,

Some news regarding SynthV: Kanru (dev) demoed V2 a few days ago, the main points are:

  1. 300% faster rendering by allocating cores more smartly
  2. More fine-grained control over expression and timbre
  3. Better UI
  4. And Richard deCosta (Cantai) should take note here, they demoed a new voice that has a, wait for it, operatic mode, which sounds really decent for a beta preview.

For those interested: SynthV does not take lyrics from the score, react to dynamics or even play MIDI and is by design more suited for DAW work. It is really more akin to Superior Drummer’s track function, which enables some really astoundingly smart playback functions in its own right.
SynthV sounds absolutely fantastic though and will play along happily with a Dorico score.

FYI,
Benji

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