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Yes! Another "small step for man" has been made in automatic
adding of expression elements to Vocaloid Yamaha using our Performance
Modeling technology (PM).
Experimental version of Onyx Arranger and special PMStyle can now
calculate curves for Velocity, Pitch Wheel, Noise, Gender Factor,
Harmonics, Brightness and Resonance parameters. Moreover, we tried to
include into Performance Modeling algorithm imitation of singing with
melisma, when long note is replaced by short notes gliding through
steps of scale characteristic of soul manner. Of course, this stage is
just the troubleshooting of compatibility of controlling commands made
by Onyx Arranger and Vocaloid. And creating special styles for
Vocaloid is different issue, and a demanding one, too. Nevertheless,
the achieved result seems quite hopeful. Well, ...
A reminder: PMStyle used for the second experiment, has calculated
Velocity, Pitch Wheel, Noise, Gender Factor, Harmonics, Brightness
curves automatically. No manual editing at all!
To analyze the result yourself you can take the following files in
mp3 and *.mid format:
ALL (3) MIDI files in
ZIP
Comments by Alexei Ustinov, CTO
Jasmine Music Technology
What is essential? Why LEON, why LOLA, and not Craig David or Avril
Lavigne? Is it enough to collect a number of phonemes and ensure the
vocal synthesis, without distorting artist's original timbre to get
virtual, electronic Sting or Madonna?
Of course not! The identity of wave forms to original voice in
itself is just the tip of the iceberg compared to what has to be
modeled in attempt to make artificial sound more natural. Besides
timbre, every vocalist possesses a unique intonation and an artistic
set of performer's techniques, without which singing is basically
impossible and without which he or she won't be recognized: Thus, to
become closer to real live vocalist, we need not only synthesis, but
the full set of performer's nuances, i.e. commands controlling this
synthesis!
Imagine that your computer contains perfect 3D images, for example
Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sharon Stone, and you can create your videos
controlling these objects in the program. But how can you achieve
realistic, not robotic movement of these objects? How can one make
artificial movement so convincing, that no one distinguishes it from
real? Well, here's the rub! It's not enough to have perfect images
(convincing realistic voices in our case), one needs to learn to
control them... And this is very difficult, for a human being can very easily
recognize the fake, when it concerns physical laws of movement... And
singing IS physics.
Demo Song details
Tune author - A.Ustinov,
Lyrics - I.Fomchenkov / A.Ustinov,
Arrangement - A.Ustinov (Background was created with the help of Onyx
Arranger 2.1 using OOStyle of Coolio's wonderful song "Gangsta's
Paradise").
Internet Angel
I don't care much for good signs
And I can't read the future
Pennsylvania bound
Or awaking in Berlin
You are always with me
In the silent display
Refrain:
Oh, my love
Internet Angel, Internet Angel
Oh, my love
Internet Angel, Internet Angel
Oh, my love
Internet Angel, Internet Angel
Angel
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