The part that talks about melismas is in 3.4.3, and the phonemes for English are in 5.3.
LOL. One thing you could conceivably do is use the formant control, possibly automating it if different parts of the song need to use different shifts due to vocal range issues. No clue how effective that would be, but I did find, in my initial experiment with it (using “The Star-Spangled Banner”, which is somewhat rangy, but not Mariah Carey rangy), I did find that I liked both voices better with the formant very slightly lowered, though I didn’t attempt to (or even need to) automate it over the course of the song. (I did automate various other performance parameters for expression purposes.)
This is a great angle on the topic. That would be really useful, if one could just enter sheet music, and it would song it right back to you, like a real vocalist would; that is gold man..
What is weird is - if you are in score and enter text in the text box at the upper right, that appears in key edit, but not under the notes in score. But they do appear in the same text box in score And if you put in words in key edit, the that same text box, they will appear in that same text box in score, but not under the notes.
So the workaround is to enter the words in that text box, then manually, using the v1. command, put them under the notes in score. Clunky, but it gets Minnie to sing the words..
Yeah, if Steinberg can get a link to working between the text box and entry via the V1. command, we’ll be flying..
Thanks for the link to the manual… I’ll work on it this week. If I can get it to pronounce French to any degree, I’ll let y’all know..
A Steinberg person clarified the non-relationship between Score Editor lyrics and Omnivocal lyrics (which go in a text field, not a lyric field):
My interpretation of this comment, coupled with your observations, is that the text field is just like a text instruction in the Score Editor, not lyrics, though perhaps the horizontal positioning of that text may be close to how it would be if it were a lyric?
To be honest, I’ve never used Cubase’s score editor for lyrics – I only use it as a visual aid for editing MIDI, with the score editor on one screen and key editor (for the greater control on editing) on the other.
I do use Dorico for making lead sheets, but, even if I’ve got a melody track in Cubase while working out an arrangement, I don’t bother importing that into Dorico as I want more precision in entering the lead sheets the way I want them, and what I’ve played will be more feel-oriented than printed notation precision-oriented. If I want a lead sheet for tracking vocals at all (I’m doing my own vocals on my own songs, and I’ve often played them live a fair bit before recording the songs so just need lyrics), I’d also have been using the lead sheet prior to that point for refining the melody and phrasing on the songwriting front. (I’d never done that with Finale as Finale was too much of a pain to use when making adjustments along the way, so I only made lead sheets after a song was completely finished, and usually that was after having recorded it.)
Now I understand why she wasn’t saying the words right – I was using hyphens for multi syllable words.. Much thanks for the manual..
Hyphens work in C13 lyrics, but they confuse Minny in Omni. Also periods (.). I’m sorting out pronunciation of “wasn’t”… I have it as 2 eight notes, and Omni will say “was” but can’t pronounce the “n’t” with or without the apostrophe.