Yes! A new step has been made in automatic adding of expression
elements to Yamaha Vocaloid using Performance Modeling technology
(PM).
Experimental version of Onyx Arranger and special PMStyle can now
not only produce Velocity changes, Pitch Wheel gliding and common
Vocaloid curves, but operate with native Vocaloid "Vibrato Objects",
inserting accordingly to the initial tune Depth and Rate curves and
Vibrato type commands. This example also includes a lot of calculated
Pitch Wheel melismas, when long note is replaced by short notes
gliding through steps of scale, which allows to achieve more realistic
singing.
A reminder: PMStyle used for the 4th experiment, has calculated
Velocity, Pitch Wheel, Noise, Harmonics, curves and parameters of
Vocaloid "Vibrato Objects" automatically. No manual editing at all!
To analyze the result yourself you can take the following files in
mp3 and *.mid format:
ALL (4) MIDI files in ZIP
Notes:
- Used PMStyle calculates a lot of Vocaloid controllers, you can
look at a part of the processed tune on the SE40 Measure Pane.
- PM Processed Tune contains only a part of calculated controllers
that can be played back by usual GM Synth.
Comments by Alexei Ustinov, CTO Jasmine Music Technology
Well, I like this result much more than all the previous ones :-)
Now a plan of YV Enhancer 1.0 development is ready, and we hope to
release the product in the beginning of July, 2004. In a couple of
weeks we will ask Vocaloid users about some points regarding most
popular Meters, Tempos, song characters, and also desirable YV
Enhancer 1.0 screens and control panes, so that the product could be
made more convenient to the user.
Demo Song details:
Tune author - R.Dattatreya
Lyrics - A.Ustinov / A.Yakovlev
Arrangement - A.Ustinov
Rising Star
Verse 1
You and I have secret and subtle affair
Even more unlike than between a night and a day
When you shine I am in my bed as I sleep
I wake up, you hide and I have a start of my trip
Can you help me so I can fly like a bird?
Can you show me why I was so very wrong?
Maybe, your high fly is just my wonderful dream
And my only way is to follow the stream
I will find something much more concrete than shine
Even if I'll spend lots of my efforts and my mind
Refrain 1
You for me are always as a Rising Star
You are real but only in a game of mind
Every day I lose you in the emptiness
Every night I am waiting for your silver rains
You are my dream
You are my pain
End of the night
Start of the day
You are so high
You are so far
Beautiful dream
My Rising Star
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