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Celemony Software has announced the fall release of Version 3 of the legendary audio software Melodyne for Mac and PC. Melodyne3 offers a new algorithm that allows any type of audio material to profit from Melodyne’s unique editing functions and sound quality; in other words, Melodyne is no longer limited to the editing of melodies [...]

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 [...]

Precisionsound has released Angelic Vocal Pads II for SoundFonts, HALion & Kontakt.
This vocal pads has been recorded with two different male singers, “Dario” & “Antoni”. “AAA”, “OOO” and “MMM”, note by note chromatically, treated, filtered and seamlessly looped.
Each SampleSet contains:

2 programs for the SoundFont versions (16 bit 44.1KHZ Stereo): “Normal”, “Slow attack”.
2 programs for the [...]

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 [...]

The Eventide H8000A is an eight-channel processor designed specifically to give operators in live performance environments maximum flexibility with four analog and four digital AES I/O channels.
“Our customers who used the H8000 in live settings reveled in its power and performance but needed more analog I/O,” said Ray Maxwell, Eventide vice president of sales and [...]

Zero-G has released its third Vocaloid Virtual Vocalist, Miriam, powered by Yamaha Singing Synthesis technology.
Vocaloid Miriam is a virtual vocalist, modelled on the voice of Miriam Stockley, the voice of the million-selling Adiemus albums. Unlike a real vocalist, though, many aspects of the voice are editable:

Changing syllables/phonemes (e.g. enter “liddle” instead of “little” etc).
Timing of [...]

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 [...]

For years, there have been convincing electronic versions of many conventional instruments. The human voice, though, has alway been elusive.
Yamaha hopes to change that with Vocaloid, a new technology that lets you write vocal lines and have your computer sing them. The results are surprisingly realistic.
Yamaha is working with Zero-G and other companies to create [...]