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Virsyn is shipping Cantor 2, described as “a breakthrough in synthesis of solo, background and choir voices.”
According to Virsyn, a vast improvement in sound quality and intelligibility has been achieved. The range of voice characters is virtually unlimited: it goes from robotic voice characters to highly expressive and nearly realistic sounding voices.
The completely reworked [...]

VirSyn sends word that Cantor 2 is coming soon.
This bilingual vocal synthesizer creates eerily lifelike vocals. While they aren’t likely to be confused with real vocals, they have a realistic vocal quality to them that’s very different than vocoder effects.
Mike Oldfield used Cantor recently to add vocals on his latest CD, Light and Shade.
Here’s an [...]

VirSyn has introduced miniTERA, The Sound Machine.
miniTERA offers a radically simplified approach to sound design. Every preset in miniTERA has a built in “Sound designer” which presents you a set of up to eight meta parameters for convenient access to the most important aspects of the sound.
Sound design with miniTERA is a simple process:

Select a [...]

Virsyn has releaseed an update to its Tera virtual synthesizer.
Changes
Multi sampling
Each of the three main oscillators can use now samples instead of the built-in waveforms. The samples are organized in up to 16 key zones and 2 morph zones, making for a total of up to 32 sample files for each oscillator. Due to it’s [...]

VirSyn Software Synthesizer has announced Cube 2, successor of the award-winning software synthesizer Cube.
Cube 2 is a musical instrument and the ultimate tool for sound designers who wish to have instant and intuitive access to all principal components every imaginable sound is build from. Every sound can be decomposed in a sine spectrum representing the [...]

Virsyn sends word that “Cantor, die vocal machine, singt nun auch deutsch. (Cantor, the vocal machine, sings also in German now). For musicians that don’t need a virtual German, Virsyn has added and improved other features, also. Cantor 1.6 also offers a MIDI import function, which can read embedded lyrics. Choir rendering lets users create [...]

VirSyn has released Cantor 1.5, a completely revised version of their vocal synthesis application.
The upgrade makes it much easier to produce intelligible vocal lines. This is achieved with an improved filter model and a new kind of rule-based phoneme sequencer which adapts the phoneme transitions according to the context inside a word.

Cantor’s main purpose is [...]

Virsyn has announced that it it now shipping the Cantor voice synthesizer.
Cantor is a realtime vocal synthesizer, that lets you enter lyrics in plain English, and then have them sung by playing the melody on a MIDI keyboard. Expression can be added with realtime parameters controlling vibrato rate and depth, or by changing the character [...]