Omni Vocals - Anybody able to get a Male voice out of it?

Cubase
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Hi all,

The new Omni vocal plugin is a great taste of things to come!

I’ve been mucking around with it, and although it’s in beta, I’m unable to get a male voice out of it. No matter which one I choose, it’s always female. Are others getting the same result or have found a way around it?

Thanks

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Hi,

maybe try a lower register? This might as well be a matter of the octave the voice is in and your expectation on a male sounding voice.

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Hi Reco29

Thanks for that - I will give it a go.

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I have the same problem. Tried everything. Reinstall, different registers etc. It’s a bug I suggest and will have to wait for Steinberg and Yamaha to fix.

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It works fine for me as long as I put it in the proper octave.

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The transpose and fine tune dials enable you to set all the equivalent human voice ranges from soprano through to bass. Experiment until you find the pitch you are after. It helps if the original music that Omnivocal is following, regardless of whether being written in the piano roll or score editor, is also of the correct register for the pitch you are after, if this proves to be the problem try lowering the notes accordingly. The other dials in Omnivocal allow you to vary other aspects of the voice such as tone, power etc.

I find Omnivocal quite good, considering it’s in Beta, once you get used to it. One thing I have learned is that the dials are sensitive, voice is an instrument just like any other and it can take a while at first to reach the exact sound you are after.

I hope this helps.

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No problem here, too. Works pretty well for a beta version :+1:

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Did you ever get the male voice to work?

I’ve not.

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I can’t any voice out of it. WTF how come I see so many vids of this working?

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I can change voices and it works but once I have entered any data (midi) it doesn’t work. The picture changes but the voice doesn’t.

Windows 11

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Hi Rick,

Not really - I followed suggestions to sing lower notes and that sort of does it, but singing the same notes, both male and female sound identical.

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There seems to be limits on the ranges of both singers beyond which they don’t sound natural for their nominal genders. I just tried an experiment a few days ago where I’d done demos with both the male and female versions using the same song and the exact same automation on Omnivocal, but put the singers in different ranges – key of C major for the male and G major (up 7 semitones, specifically) for the female. Just now, I tried another experiment where I went back to the version where I’d used the female voice and switched it to male (no other changes). There was an obvious difference in tone/gender in ranges that were common between the two voices. However, once the male got above roughly the G above middle C (which had been the highest note in the male version of the song, the lowest being the C below middle C), the male started to sound unnatural and more feminine. I didn’t try the reverse experiment with the female voice in the male range, but I do remember when experimenting with it earlier that, when it got to a certain low range (I don’t recall where the break was), it started to sound more masculine.

FWIW, if you’d like to check out both the demos I made with the two Omnivocal singers, and my notes on the process I used for doing that, here is the post:

One thing worth noting that I didn’t think to mention in my earlier notes: I found that the male singer sounded more natural if I turned the formant down to 46% instead of the default 50%. I also used the same formant setting on the female version (I didn’t even think to try otherwise when I was just quickly trying to make a female version for comparison).