# "Kantos is controlled by audio, any pitched monophonic audio, like your voice or a musical instrument, live, in real time. Kantos analyses incoming audio and instantaneously extracts pitch, dynamics, harmonic content and formant characteristics. This information is then used to control the Kantos sound engine in ways never before possible with a conventional MIDI synth."
Antares Filter gives you everything you need to harmonically shape your tracks with surgical precision or animate them with an almost limitless variety of tempo-synced rhythmic effects.
Featuring four great-sounding stereo multimode filters, four independent delay lines, a prodigious complement of control sources, powerful modulation capabilities, and features optimized for rhythmic loop-based applications, Filter is a flexible, fun, easy-to-use power tool for creating tracks (or entire mixes) that pulse with life and character.
Key Features:
* Four warm, analog-sounding stereo multimode filters.
* Lowpass, highpass, bandpass and notch modes.
* Variable slope: 12dB/oct * 48dB/oct.
* Four full-featured delay sections.
* Multiple filter routing options.
* Four Envelope Generators.
* Four multi-shape LFOs.
* Envelope Follower.
* Two Rhythm Generators.
* Powerful Modulation Matrix.
* Extensive MIDI control.
* Every time-based parameter syncable to MIDI.
Predatohm is an effect plug-in that has been fully designed from a simple fact : sometimes you need to make BIG, PHAT, WILD and WARM sounds.
* First " user-friendly " multiband compressor/expandor ever.
* Choose your weapon : Multiband distortion, with many distortion schemes available.
* Warm, bright sound with the guitar feedback generator.
* Quick and efficient sound shaping provided by the tone setting.
* Make it wide with the Stereo Expander.
* Optional High Quality rendering.
* Integrated preset morphing solution.
* MIDI Automation : control your Predatohm via MIDI. (this feature is only available on Expert and Propack).
Zero-G - Afrolatin Slam (ProSamples Platinum Series Vol.3) inkl. Keygen
Infos
Inject an authentic Afrolatin feel into your projects! This massive "must have" library of eclectic rhythms, loops & hits is by one of the world's foremost percussionists, Francis Fuster (Paul Simon, Hugh Masekela, Manu Dibangu, Miriam Makeba) from Sierra Leone, and Kenyan Sultan Makendé (aka Dave Yowell). Over 600 Mb, ranging from frenetic West African Kpalogo, to pulsating Afro-latin grooves.
(Zero-G)
* Two 64-bit alias-free oscillators, with a choice of eleven waveforms each, plus detune and PWM (available for all waveforms)
* Hard Sync and Ring Modulation for extra grit
* Switchable 18db/24db/36db per octave resonant lowpass filter with EG modulation. Classic acid bassline sound!
* Velocity-controlled Accent Feature and supersmooth Glide mode
* Built-in Stereo FX unit with distortion, delay, chorus and flange
* Full MIDI control
The Eclectic Drums Capsule provides a wide range of produced kits with a diversity of flavor and style. A great collection of playable drum kits (no loops) all mapped around the GM standard for easy integration into any midi sequencing environment and suitable for styles of music ranging from dance, hip hop, pop and rock to avant guard, electronic, retro and more.
Sonik Capsules?
Universal Sounds for Any Samplers
Sonik Capsules? are a range of innovative sound libraries from Sonic Reality. Sonik Capsules? represent a step forward in multi-format sound libraries for software samplers.
Thanks to the included UFO software, each Sonik Capsule title is able to work as a ?native? sample library in the most popular software samplers including IK SampleTank?, Steinberg? HALion?, eMagic? exS24?, Native Instruments? Kontakt? and Battery?, Propellerheads? Reason? NNXT and more all from the same package.
In addition, with the inclusion of the new SampleTank? 2 LE, each of these titles can also be used directly as a sound module plug-in in the 9 platforms supported by SampleTank? 2 in Mac?OSX and Windows? XP.
Zero-G - THE OPERATING TABLE
(ProSamples Platinum Series Vol.2)
Infos
THE OPERATING TABLE
(ProSamples Platinum Series Vol.2). Plug-in Virtual Sound Module powered by a Custom High-Performance Native Instruments Audio Engine (VST 2.0, DXi, ASIO, AU, RTAS, Mac & PC)
THE OPERATING TABLE is an amazing virtual groove instrument with performances and production by Emre Ramazanoglu, the producer who brought you the FIVE STAR AWARD-winning "Return To The Planet Of The Breaks".
"Given the abundance of drum ROMplers currently flooding the marketplace, any new release has to do something pretty special to stand out from the crowd. Luckily, this latest offering from Zero-G does just that, with stacks of excellent quality, original drum breaks that are a cut above the usual stuff doing the rounds... Groove and human feel are present in abundance.. Warm, fat sounds, which cover a wide range of genres... Offers plenty of creative potential for mangling your loops and hits beyond all recognition... All in all, a highly impressive package that should appeal to anyone who's looking for quality new breaks. 9/10"
COMPUTER MUSIC MAGAZINE (UK)
"...perhaps the best feature is the playing and, more specifically, the attitude provided by the loops. This is first class. At lower tempos, there is plenty here that might suit some hip-hop or R&B productions, provided that they were of the more grungy variety. At mid-tempos, there is material that would work in a rock or funk context ? although you might want to add an ?alt-? to both of these genres, as the playing is suitably (and very inspiringly) quirky. At higher tempos, there are loops that would work in harder-edged electroncia or dance styles (think the Chemical Brothers or The Prodigy) with enough going on to make things sound aggressive and a little extra on tap via Intakt?s Lo-fi, Distortion, or Filter processing if required. All in all, these breakbeats are inspirational and have plenty of character... if I could give The Operating Table two ratings then it would be five for the quality of the content but perhaps three for the quantity ? there was some great material, but I was left wanting more. Four stars it is then. Overall, however, if you like your breakbeats to have attitude, then these loops are certainly worth a spin."
SOUND ON SOUND MAGAZINE
QUICK FACTS
- A stunning virtual instrument featuring an amazingly flexible new library of breaks with irresistible feel and compelling usability.
- Produced by multi AWARD-winning sample CD producer Emre Ramazanoglu in London, who has produced for The Prodigy and William Orbit.
- Breakbeats derive their feel and sonic basis from live drumming technique performed by four featured drummers.
- Equal emphasis on diversity of sound and quality of performance: unique-sounding breaks created via extremely creative processing techiques, but with the real feel of a performance.
- Sync each loop to your host sequencer at ANY TEMPO YOU WANT with the included software!
- Includes a special version of INTAKT SAMPLER from NATIVE INSTRUMENTS (plug-in or standalone) for MAC and PC specifically designed for loop playback.
OVERVIEW
This unbelievably flexible groove instrument features a library of breaks with irresistible feel and compelling usability, which, although they derive their feel and sonic basis from live drumming technique, are very creatively processed, and were performed by one of four featured drummers (Emre Ramazanoglu or Dave Westlake, with contributions from Jack Yglesias and Steve Ashmore). The recordings were made in London at Metropolis, Padded Cell, Walworth Cage, Triangle, and Line of Flight. This project was conceived as a much more powerful alternative to "genre-based" sample libraries, offering sample-accurate live drum loops with an equal emphasis on diversity of sound through extremely creative processing techiques, but with the real feel of a human performance. Many performances changes and evolve, providing multiple loop variations. Real kits are the foundation of the sound of each break, although some incorporate additional live triggered analog drum machines or software triggered sounds. Each bar of each break has been designed to loop perfectly as a 1 bar break (sample accurate BPM), or as part of the whole evolving sequence. Emre Ramazanoglu is a London Based session drummer and producer whose recent credits include The Prodigy, William Orbit, Tricky, Bobby Gillespie, Tom Middleton and Sikth. Dave Westlake is the drummer with the Sneaker Pimps and session drummer for Medieval Babes amongst others.
"Buy this, it'll rock the globe" - Neil Maclellan (Producer for: Prodigy, Nine Inch Nails).
"I literally don't leave home without these breaks" - Flood (Producer).
FOR A FULL LIST OF ALL CONTENTS PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK AT ABOVE LEFT.
NO SAMPLER REQUIRED!
THE OPERATING TABLE includes a stunning new state-of-the-art plug-in audio engine/interface from NATIVE INSTRUMENTS which is specifically designed for rhythmic loop playback, manipulation, and mayhem.
The convenient one-screen interface is based on (and provides all the sound manipulation tools of) NI?s new INTAKT sampler, and features tremendous sound shaping abilities without disrupting the creative flow, including a first-class multimode filter, an envelope follower, two LFOs, effects, and more. The loops have been set up so that they can be automatically synced to tempo, either via the Beat Machine or the Time Machine. The Beat Machine has loops divided into their individual hits (slices) which means they can be played at a wide range of tempos without any change in pitch. It also allows the user to give each hit individual settings for pitch, playback direction, pitch envelope, amp envelope, distortion, delay, and more; a MIDI file of each loop can be easily exported so that groove, accent, and feel can be manipulated in any host sequencer. The Time Machine time-stretches or compresses loops in real time. Not only can you sync, stretch, and pitch the loops, but also filter, effect and modulate them as well! A powerful sound-shaping filter, flexible envelopes, syncable LFOs, and distortion, syncable delay, and lo-fi effects can inject even more energy and individuality into the loops. Since the software interface is based on the KONTAKT engine, working with it is fast, easy, and it sounds great!
SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS
500 MB Free Hard Disc Space, CD-ROM Drive
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- Windows XP, Pentium III/Athlon 400 Mhz, 256 MB
- Mac OS 10.2.6, G3 500 Mhz, 256 MB RAM
RECOMMENDED SYSTEM
- Windows XP, P III/Athlon 700 MHz, 512 MB RAM
- Mac OS 10.2.6, G4 733 Mhz, 512 MB RAM
Note: THE OPERATING TABLE Sample Library can also be loaded into other Native Instruments samplers including KONTAKT (version 1.5 or later), for even greater flexibility and more options for working with the material.
Vocaloid? MIRIAM.
A plug-in VIRTUAL VOCALIST modelled on the voice of MIRIAM STOCKLEY, and powered by Yamaha VOCALOID Singing Synthesis Technology.
Vocaloid MIRIAM, a VIRTUAL VOCALIST modelled on the voice of MIRIAM STOCKLEY, and powered by Yamaha VOCALOID Singing Synthesis Technology. The NEW VOCALOID SOFTWARE ENGINE is up to THREE TIMES FASTER. And no more waiting for the singing to render - your work starts playing within a second or two using the much improved "Play With Synthesis" feature. Now you can create remarkably real-sounding vocal tracks with ease, in any lyrics you want. Or create mind-blowing vocal effects.
Since its first release, VOCALOID has already been greatly improved: Yamaha have provided many enhanced features and improvements in a major software update (version 1.1), which is free to registered users as a downloadable update at the Vocaloid.com website.
To download a free TRYOUT VERSION of the Vocaloid software (PC only), please click HERE
When it comes to creating innovative vocal tracks, Yamaha's VOCALOID singing synthesis technology changes everything. Even the singing voice can now be SYNTHESIZED - to a remarkable degree - through LOLA, LEON, and MIRIAM, the VOCALOID virtual vocalists from Zero-G, thanks to the incredible new technology developed by Yamaha.
VOCALOID is an entirely NEW kind of instrument, that uses the natural tone and articulation of a real human voice as its source - allowing the user to synthesize incredible vocals, the like of which have never been experienced before. It can also sound remarkably like a real singer if required, with an unprecedented degree of realism for a synthesizer.
"Vocaloid Lola is clearly going to be big in the music business. The start of something huge in modern music. Fascinating software which delivers everything it promises - and there's more to come!" - VOCALOID LOLA Review in MUSIC TECH Magazine, UK rated 9/10 and MUSIC TECH RECOMMENDED Award.
"I can think of a number of creative situations where Vocaloid would certainly be useful, particularly for backing vocals. I'm very keen to see where Yamaha and Zero-G take this product next, with the release of Miriam being the obvious next highlight. Vocaloid is a brave undertaking, and hats off to both Yamaha and Zero-G for having the ambition to take such a significant first step!..." - VOCALOID LEON & LOLA Review feature in SOUND ON SOUND Magazine, UK.
"It can enhance compositions with solos or choruses of vocalists synthesized by the computer. The composer can realize complicated polyphonies, the jazz artist can realize backing vocals with realistic jazzy effects, and the experimenter will be able to create impossible effects with human voices. Pros: Impressive realistic choruses, perfect English pronunciation and reproduces jazz vocal effects with great realism." - VOCALOID LOLA Review from PC OPEN, Italy, rated 9/10.
"From the sound, the Vocaloid voices can quite impress. They sing each speed, each note and at the same time, even simulate perfectly, the rhythm of human speech. Even the ending behavior of longer notes is affectionately copied. As the first software of its kind Vocaloid is unique, and I am very intrigued as to what will be forthcoming over the years thanks to this technology." - VOCALOID LEON and LOLA Review from Keyboards, Germany.
"The usage of Vocaloid is very captivating, and it is frankly magic to make text sing by computer!" - VOCALOID LOLA Review from MUSICRUN Magazine, France.
"As an amateur songwriter, who struggles with a computer far from powerful enough to run the necessary software to record vocals of good quality, I have looked for good solutions. I have had the pleasure of testing Leon, the Virtual Soul Vocalist. The complexity hidden behind the seemingly simplistic interface is astonishing. I hardly had to look at the manual at all while exploring ? quite atypical for music software. Leon is astonishing." - VOCALOID LEON Review by Haakon R. Ueland, for MENSA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL and website www.smartsoftware.org
"Vocaloid is really the most innovative piece of software which has been released in a while. It's really taking voice synthesis to a whole new level. This is a great way for many bedroom and also professional composers to have great vocals in their music. I have given Vocaloid the maximum score because it's such a great technological progression in music making. It's just the thing many producers have been waiting for." - VOCALOID LOLA Review from www.StudioFreaks.com, RATED 10 out of 10
"In 2003, Yamaha created a product that they call "Vocaloid". Its programming can be input by any musician; its basic graphical user interface is much like any software-based synthesizer. When all the programming is complete, press play, and it sings. No, not computer generated singing -- but it sings with a human voice that has been digitally sampled, deconstructed, and re-assembled according to your input. And Vocaloid can do its own harmonies and back-up vocals." - VOCALOID LOLA Review from Tech Central Station article "The Making of a Pop Star, 2010" by Edward B. Driscoll Jr., (www.techcentralstation.com)
YAMAHA VOCALOID SOFTWARE ENGINE ? Accolades to date:-
- Game Audio Network Guild voted Yamaha's Vocaloid "Best New Audio Technology" in the Industry & Trade Category at their 2nd Annual G.A.N.G. Awards Show, March 25th 2004.
- Popular Science Magazine voted Yamaha's Vocaloid as runner up in their General Innovation category of the "Best of What's New 2003" Awards.
MIRIAM is a virtual female vocalist modelled on the voice of Miriam Stockley, and when MIRIAM is installed into your PC she will allow you to create synthesized singing of unprecedented quality and remarkable realism. MIRIAM can sing ANY words you wish in English - literally anything - be they beautiful lyrics or comical trivialities, Monteverdi madrigals or manic chants. You can create solo vocal tracks or backing vocals in almost any style of singing, with any lyrics you want. You enter notes, type in lyrics, and the software renders the synthesized vocal. Then add expression to taste, and render again.
About Miriam Stockley:
British singer Miriam Stockley has an ideal voice upon which to model a Vocaloid virtual vocalist. Given the list of artists Miriam has worked with - a list that includes such names as Tina Turner, Elton John, George Michael, Freddie Mercury, Chaka Khan, David Bowie, Seal and Adiemus - you may be surprised that you haven't heard her name before. One of the most distinctive voices in the music industry, Miriam has probably sung on more hit records and with more success than most artists achieve in a lifetime. "Sonically, she's got ears like a bat" says vocal recording engineer Rod Houison. "She rolls out six part harmonies effortlessly. From a technical point of view she's in a class of her own." Being technically superb is only one side of Miriam. She also has a tremendously emotional delivery that can often send tingles down your spine, and is well known for her highly developed and unique vocal skills of multilayering vocal harmonies. In countless high profile concerts she has provided backing vocals (including for Elton John, Annie Lennox, David Bowie and Seal). Miriam's extensive studio work brought her to the attention of Karl Jenkins who had heard about her unique vocal style, and this led to the highly successful ADIEMUS project, whereby Jenkins' compositions featuring Miriam's vocals were recorded with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and released as "Songs Of Sanctuary" by ADIEMUS. The album was a huge international success and, together with the follow-ups "Cantata Mundi" and "Dances of Time" has so far sold well in excess of two million copies worldwide. "Only You," a hit Miriam performed with the group Praise, charted number two in the UK. After completing the third Adiemus album Miriam expanded her musical audience by releasing solo albums on Virgin, which have become recognised as vocal masterpieces.
Your own backing singers.
With Vocaloid MIRIAM, you will have your own virtual version of Miriam Stockley's voice at your disposal in your own studio! With Vocaloid, creating your own backing vocals, in your own lyrics, is a realistic proposition - even for complex harmonies and arrangements. And as you gradually develop your Vocaloid editing skills, you will find that with patience lead vocal lines are also possible, thanks to the arsenal of expression tools provided, which permit editing and manipulation of the finest nuances.
IMAGINE what all this could mean for your music
Now you can COMMUNICATE emotion so directly. You can add HUMANITY to ANY production in ANY style, with your own virtual vocalist. You can create backing vocals in harmonies for your tracks. With skill and application you can create unprecedented vocal realism. OR... you can live in the exciting world between human and machine, where MIRIAM can even provide vocals that sound like they were performed by a superhuman virtuoso android. Using Vocaloid in this way, as a true hybrid of human voice and synthesizer, the potential for innovation is limited only by your own imagination.
What will YOU get MIRIAM to sing?
Do you simply want to hear your lyrical ideas performed in a rough 'sketch' form, as an aid to your songwriting process? Or will you use MIRIAM's freedom from human limitations to create stunningly innovative and experimental vocal effects? MIRIAM can sing over a superb pitch range, and can sing much faster than a human could - as fast as you like in fact. And MIRIAM can jump any interval yet hit every note beautifully, IF that's want YOU want.
In addition to singing any words or combination of syllables or phonemes you can imagine, MIRIAM will spread any sustained vowel (or voiced consonant) across as many notes as you like, with perfect legato. You can select from several different natural vibrato types and drag and drop your chosen type to any note or notes, and control the time-position and amount of the vibrato.
And that's just the beginning - you have control over all of the following parameters, which you can bring to bear on any part of your creation:
- Changing syllables/phonemes (e.g. enter "liddle" instead of "little" etc).
- Timing of each note (precise position/length).
- Vibrato (you can change its type/position/amount/frequency).
- Volume.
- Attack.
- Crescendo or diminuendo.
- Pitch bend (amount, and positionable in time).
- Glide (portamento).
- Resonance (Frequency/bandwidth/amplitude).
- Harmonics.
- Noise.
- Brightness.
- Clearness.
- Gender factor.
- And of course, you can even change the singer (if you have purchased and installed more than one virtual singer) - perhaps get LEON or LOLA to sing your creation instead of MIRIAM.
How Does It Work? Why does MIRIAM sound so much more realistic than any other form of vocal synthesis?
Few events have dramatically diverted the course of musical history. Synthesis, MIDI, Sampling - inventions of this magnitude are very rare events indeed. Singing Synthesis is such an event. Most acoustic instruments can be simulated well using various synthesis techniques, but (until Yamaha's Vocaloid techology came along) the singing voice resisted any serious simulation attempts. Hardly surprising, since singing has an extremely wide range of articulations, timbres, and transitions between sounds. And singing can communicate words as well as melody, which means you have a double layer of meaning, unlike other instruments. The human ear is so used to hearing the voice that even the finest tonal shifts or anomalies are immediately noticed. However, Yamaha's Vocaloid is in fact a totally new vocal-synthesis technology, achieving a much higher level of sophistication in this exciting area! The team at the Yamaha Advanced System Development Center in Japan has created software that emulates the singing voice with incredible accuracy.
Zero-G's development team have been working closely with Yamaha to create many 'vocal fonts' (virtual vocalists) for the Vocaloid system. The team starts each project by recording a professional vocalist singing literally all possible phonemes and transitions between syllables. Each transition is slightly different depending on the particular combination of phonemes, and these differences play a big part in how we understand words and whether a vocal track sounds natural or artificial. For example, the phoneme "p" sounds slightly different at the beginning of a word than it does at the end, and it affects the vowels next to it differently than, say, the phoneme "t".
The recordings of the professional singers are converted to the frequency domain using Fast Fourier Transform and divided into thousands of separate phonetic transitions which are processed in a unique way and then stored for use with the Vocaloid synthesis engine. Expressive tools such as vibrato, pitch bend, and attack are also derived from the real singing and stored separately.
To create a vocal track, you enter music and lyrics into the Vocaloid Editor (see screenshot). The melody can be entered by hand in the piano-roll style Editor or imported from a Standard MIDI File; the words are entered manually (either as words or as phonemes). Expressive elements can be imported from a MIDI File previously saved by the Vocaloid Editor, or entered via a graphic palette using drag-and-drop. Further detailed programming of expression parameters can be done graphically, for finely detailed results.
The data that you have entered in the Editor is sent to the synthesis engine, which fetches what it needs from the phonetic and expression databases to synthesize the track. To sing the word "part", for example, the software combines four elements from the phonetic database: "p" (as it sounds at the beginning of a word), "p-ar" (the transition from "p" to "ar"), "ar-t" (the transition from "ar" to "t"), and "t" (as it sounds at the end of a word). The two "ar" elements are blended together, and the resulting vowel "a" is lengthened as necessary to accommodate your chosen melody and rhythm.
Different pitches are derived by shifting the fundamental and overtones while leaving the vowel formants relatively untouched. The database elements were derived from phrases originally sung at different pitches, limiting the amount of shifting the engine needs to do (and therefore improving ultimate realism). A Pentium 4/ 2GHz computer should take less than one-third to half real time to render the track in the frequency domain and convert it into the time domain for use.
Unlimited Horizons
The potential for Yamaha's Singing Synthesis Technology is virtually unlimited. MIRIAM (together with LEON and LOLA) represent the genesis of the new era of virtual singing Pretty soon you are going to hear synthesized vocals in a lot of music. Don't get left out of the picture. Experience the difference Vocaloid can make for yourself...
VOCALOID Editor Features:
* Vocal Edit & Synthesis environment.
* Piano-roll note editor.
* Easy-to use lyric editing.
* Drag & Drop musical expression assigning.
* Reads VOCALOID vocal libraries.
* Synthesizing vocal tracks (not real-time).
* Saving vocal data as wave files.
* Up to 16 vocal tracks.
* Standard MIDI File Input/Output
VOCALOID VST/ReWire Instrument:
* Reads VOCALOID vocal libraries.
* Plays vocal MIDI tracks generated by VOCALOID Editor via VST- or ReWire-compatible host sequencer***.
* Easy to manipulate voice characteristics.
***Users of FL Studio and SONAR 3.1.1 please note: The ReWire functionality of Vocaloid does not work properly with FL Studio. Also the VST Instrument cannot be used with VST hosts that do not send NRPN's. FLStudio and Sonar 3.1.1 are such VST hosts. However, both functions (ReWire and VSTi) work in Cubase VST/SX and other major sequencers.
VOCALOID MIRIAM Vocal Library (virtual female vocalist):
* Virtual vocalist modelled on the voice of MIRIAM STOCKLEY, the voice of the multi-million-selling ADIEMUS albums
* Complete female voice in English, in professional quality.
* Suits all pop and dance music styles, but also Celtic and many other styles.
* Full coverage of phonemes. You can use any English lyrics you want.
* Vibrato templates and expression templates as typically used in natural singing.
Minimum System Requirements:
* Windows XP or Windows 2000.
* Pentium III, 1 GHz or faster.
* 512MB of RAM or more.
* Approx 2.6 Gb Hard disk space or more
* CD-ROM or DVD-ROM Drive
* SVGA Display (1024x768)
* Sound Card with Microsoft DirectSound Compatible driver.
* LAN/network card must be installed, or a USB network card must be connected to the USB port.
Recommended System:
* Windows XP.
* Pentium 4, 1.7 GHz or faster.
* I GB of RAM or more
Supported Interfaces & Standards:
VST 2.0, ReWire, Windows MME.
Recommended Retail Price:
$199.95 US Dollars (169 Euros / 114.95 pounds sterling, including VAT)
The SYNTHETIC DRUMS sample CD for BATTERY and KONTAKT includes 32 powerful electronic drum kits developed by renowned sound designers and producers from the techno, house, drum and bass, IDM, electro, eclectic, hip-hop, and ambient scenes.
V-Station is a plug-in version of the hardware K-Station.
* V-Station sounds can be downloaded into the A or K-Station and vice versa.
* Liquid analogue sound based on the K-Station sound engine.
* Powerful 3 oscillator sound engine with Noise and FM capability.
* Arpeggiator with synchronisation lock.
* Simultaneous high quality effects including Reverb, Chorus, Phaser, Delay, Panning & Distortion and EQ Filter.
* 400 user programs - 200 factory presets.
* 8 note polyphony per instance.
VIRTUAL FEMALE VOCALIST from ZERO-G?, powered by Yamaha VOCALOID? Singing Synthesis Technology
VOCALOID is an entirely NEW kind of instrument, that uses the natural tone and articulation of a real human voice as its source - allowing the user to synthesize incredible vocals, the like of which have never been experienced before. It can also sound remarkably like a real singer if required, with an unprecedented degree of realism for a synthesizer.
When it comes to creating vocal tracks, Yamaha's VOCALOID singing synthesis technology changes everything. Even a singing voice can now be SYNTHESIZED to a remarkable degree, through LOLA, LEON, and MIRIAM, the VOCALOID virtual vocalists from Zero-G, thanks to the incredible new technology developed by Yamaha.
Since its first release, VOCALOID has already been greatly improved: Yamaha have provided many enhanced features and improvements in a major software update (version 1.1), which is free to registered users as a downloadable update at the Vocaloid.com website.
To download a free TRYOUT VERSION of the Vocaloid software (PC only), please click HERE
LOLA is a virtual female soul vocalist modelled on a real professional singer, and when she is installed into your PC she will allow you to create synthesized singing of an unprecedented human quality. LOLA can sing ANY words in English - literally anything. You can create solo vocal tracks or backing vocals in any lyrics you want. You enter notes, type in lyrics, and the software renders the synthesized vocal. Then add expression to taste, and render again. LOLA is under your total control.
"Vocaloid Lola is clearly going to be big in the music business - and siblings Leon and Miriam are already waiting in the wings! The start of something huge in modern music. Fascinating software which delivers everything it promises - and there's more to come!" - VOCALOID LOLA Review in MUSIC TECH Magazine, UK, rated 9/10 and MUSIC TECH RECOMMENDED Award
"I can think of a number of creative situations where Vocaloid would certainly be useful, particularly for backing vocals. I'm very keen to see where Yamaha and Zero-G take this product next, with the release of Miriam being the obvious next highlight. Vocaloid is a brave undertaking, and hats off to both Yamaha and Zero-G for having the ambition to take such a significant first step!..." - VOCALOID LEON & LOLA Review feature in SOUND ON SOUND Magazine, UK.
"It can enhance compositions with solos or choruses of vocalists synthesized by the computer. The composer can realize complicated polyphonies, the jazz artist can realize backing vocals with realistic jazzy effects, and the experimenter will be able to create impossible effects with human voices. Pros: Impressive realistic choruses, perfect English pronunciation and reproduces jazz vocal effects with great realism." - VOCALOID LOLA Review from PC OPEN, Italy, rated 9/10
"From the sound, the Vocaloid voices can quite impress. They sing each speed, each note and at the same time, even simulate perfectly, the rhythm of human speech. Even the ending behavior of longer notes is affectionately copied. As the first software of its kind Vocaloid is unique, and I am very intrigued as to what will be forthcoming over the years thanks to this technology." - VOCALOID LEON and LOLA Review from Keyboards, Germany.
"The usage of Vocaloid is very captivating, and it is frankly magic to make text sing by computer!" - VOCALOID LOLA Review from MUSICRUN Magazine, France.
"As an amateur songwriter, who struggles with a computer far from powerful enough to run the necessary software to record vocals of good quality, I have looked for good solutions. I have had the pleasure of testing Leon, the Virtual Soul Vocalist. The complexity hidden behind the seemingly simplistic interface is astonishing. I hardly had to look at the manual at all while exploring ? quite atypical for music software. Leon is astonishing." - VOCALOID LEON Review by Haakon R. Ueland, for MENSA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL and website www.smartsoftware.org
"Vocaloid is really the most innovative piece of software which has been released in a while. It's really taking voice synthesis to a whole new level. This is a great way for many bedroom and also professional composers to have great vocals in their music. I have given Vocaloid the maximum score because it's such a great technological progression in music making. It's just the thing many producers have been waiting for." - VOCALOID LOLA Review from www.StudioFreaks.com, RATED 10 out of 10
"In 2003, Yamaha created a product that they call "Vocaloid". Its programming can be input by any musician; its basic graphical user interface is much like any software-based synthesizer. When all the programming is complete, press play, and it sings. No, not computer generated singing -- but it sings with a human voice that has been digitally sampled, deconstructed, and re-assembled according to your input. And Vocaloid can do its own harmonies and back-up vocals." - VOCALOID LOLA Review from Tech Central Station article "The Making of a Pop Star, 2010" by Edward B. Driscoll Jr., (www.techcentralstation.com)
YAMAHA VOCALOID SOFTWARE ENGINE ? Accolades to date:-
- Game Audio Network Guild voted Yamaha's Vocaloid "Best New Audio Technology" in the Industry & Trade Category at their 2nd Annual G.A.N.G. Awards Show, March 25th 2004
- Popular Science Magazine voted Yamaha's Vocaloid as runner up in their General Innovation category of the "Best of What's New 2003" Awards.
Your own backing singers.
With Vocaloid LOLA, you will have your own virtual version of a top professional session singer's voice at your disposal in your own studio. With Vocaloid, creating your own backing vocals, in your own lyrics, is a realistic proposition - even for complex harmonies and arrangements. And as you gradually develop your Vocaloid editing skills, you will find that with patience even lead vocal lines are a possibility, thanks to the arsenal of expression tools provided, which permit editing and manipulation of the finest nuances.
IMAGINE what all this could mean for your music
Now you can COMMUNICATE emotion so directly. You can add HUMANITY to ANY production in ANY style, with your own virtual vocalist. You can create backing vocals in harmonies for your tracks. With skill and application you can create unprecedented vocal realism. OR... you can live in the exciting world between human and machine, where LOLA can even provide vocals that sound like they were performed by a superhuman virtuoso android. Using Vocaloid in this way, as a true hybrid of human voice and synthesizer, the potential for innovation is limited only by your own imagination.
What will YOU get LOLA to sing?
Do you simply want to hear your lyrical ideas performed in a rough 'sketch' form, as an aid to your songwriting process? Or will you use LOLA's freedom from human limitations to create stunningly innovative and experimental vocal effects? LOLA can sing over a superb pitch range, and can sing much faster than a human could - as fast as you like in fact. And LOLA can jump any interval yet hit every note beautifully, IF that's want YOU want.
In addition to singing any words or combination of syllables or phonemes you can imagine, LOLA will spread any sustained vowel (or voiced consonant) across as many notes as you like, with perfect legato. You can select from several different natural vibrato types and drag and drop your chosen type to any note or notes, and control the time-position and amount of the vibrato.
And that's just the beginning - you have control over all of the following parameters, which you can bring to bear on any part of your creation:
- Changing syllables/phonemes (e.g. enter "liddle" instead of "little" etc).
- Timing of each note (precise position/length).
- Vibrato (you can change its type/position/amount/frequency).
- Volume.
- Attack.
- Crescendo or diminuendo.
- Pitch bend (amount, and positionable in time).
- Glide (portamento).
- Resonance (Frequency/bandwidth/amplitude).
- Harmonics.
- Noise.
- Brightness.
- Clearness.
- Gender factor.
- And of course, you can even change the singer (if you have purchased and installed more than one virtual singer) - perhaps get LEON or MIRIAM to sing your creation instead of LOLA.
Numerous audio demos can be auditioned by going to the VOCALOID DEMOS PAGE
To watch a VOCALOID TUTORIAL VIDEO, which takes you through the basic steps in creating vocal lines with Vocaloid, click HERE
How Does It Work?
Few events have dramatically diverted the course of musical history. Synthesis, MIDI, Sampling - inventions of this magnitude are very rare events indeed. Singing Synthesis is such an event. Most acoustic instruments can be simulated well using various synthesis techniques, but (until Yamaha's Vocaloid techology came along) the singing voice resisted any serious simulation attempts. Hardly surprising, since singing has an extremely wide range of articulations, timbres, and transitions between sounds. And singing can communicate words as well as melody, which means you have a double layer of meaning, unlike other instruments. The human ear is so used to hearing the voice that even the finest tonal shifts or anomalies are immediately noticed. However, Yamaha's Vocaloid is in fact a totally new vocal-synthesis technology, achieving a much higher level of sophistication in this exciting area! The team at the Yamaha Advanced System Development Center in Japan has created software that emulates the singing voice with incredible accuracy.
Zero-G's development team have been working closely with Yamaha to create many 'vocal fonts' (virtual vocalists) for the Vocaloid system. The team starts each project by recording a professional vocalist singing literally all possible phonemes and transitions between syllables. Each transition is slightly different depending on the particular combination of phonemes, and these differences play a big part in how we understand words and whether a vocal track sounds natural or artificial. For example, the phoneme "p" sounds slightly different at the beginning of a word than it does at the end, and it affects the vowels next to it differently than, say, the phoneme "t".
The recordings of the professional singers are converted to the frequency domain using Fast Fourier Transform and divided into thousands of separate phonetic transitions which are processed in a unique way and then stored for use with the Vocaloid synthesis engine. Expressive tools such as vibrato, pitch bend, and attack are also derived from the real singing and stored separately.
To create a vocal track, you enter music and lyrics into the Vocaloid Editor (see screenshot). The melody can be entered by hand in the piano-roll style Editor or imported from a Standard MIDI File; the words are entered manually (either as words or as phonemes). Expressive elements can be imported from a MIDI File previously saved by the Vocaloid Editor, or entered via a graphic palette using drag-and-drop. Further detailed programming of expression parameters can be done graphically, for finely detailed results.
The data that you have entered in the Editor is sent to the synthesis engine, which fetches what it needs from the phonetic and expression databases to synthesize the track. To sing the word "part", for example, the software combines four elements from the phonetic database: "p" (as it sounds at the beginning of a word), "p-ar" (the transition from "p" to "ar"), "ar-t" (the transition from "ar" to "t"), and "t" (as it sounds at the end of a word). The two "ar" elements are blended together, and the resulting vowel "a" is lengthened as necessary to accommodate your chosen melody and rhythm.
Different pitches are derived by shifting the fundamental and overtones while leaving the vowel formants relatively untouched. The database elements were derived from phrases originally sung at different pitches, limiting the amount of shifting the engine needs to do (and therefore improving ultimate realism). A Pentium 4/ 2GHz computer should take less than one-third to half real time to render the track in the frequency domain and convert it into the time domain for use. For example, a 1-minute track can be rendered in less than 30 seconds.
Unlimited Horizons
The potential for Yamaha's Singing Synthesis Technology is virtually unlimited. LOLA (together with her companion LEON) are the genesis, the "Adam and Eve" of the new era of virtual singing. A third virtual vocalist, MIRIAM has already taken Vocaloid to new heights. Pretty soon you are going to hear synthesized vocals in a lot of music. Don't get left out of the picture. Experience the difference LOLA can make for yourself!
VOCALOID Editor Features:
* Vocal Edit & Synthesis environment.
* Piano-roll note editor.
* Easy-to use lyric editing.
* Drag & Drop musical expression assigning.
* Reads VOCALOID vocal libraries.
* Synthesizing vocal tracks (not real-time).
* Saving vocal data as wave files.
* Up to 16 vocal tracks.
* Standard MIDI File Input/Output.
* 104-page full-colour printed Owner's Manual provided.
* Video Tutorial provided (.AVI movie).
VOCALOID VST/ReWire Instrument:
* Reads VOCALOID vocal libraries.
* Plays vocal MIDI tracks generated by VOCALOID Editor via VST- or ReWire-compatible host sequencer**.
* Easy to manipulate voice characteristics.
**Users of FL Studio and SONAR 3.1.1 please note: The ReWire functionality of Vocaloid does not work properly with FL Studio. Also the VST Instrument cannot be used with VST hosts that do not send NRPN's. FLStudio and Sonar 3.1.1 are such VST hosts. However, both functions (ReWire and VSTi) work in Cubase VST/SX and other major sequencers.
VOCALOID LOLA Vocal Library (virtual female soul vocalist):
* Complete female voice in English, in professional quality.
* Suits all soul and dance music styles, but also many other styles.
* Full coverage of phonemes. You can use any English lyrics you want.
* Vibrato templates and expression templates as typically used in natural singing.
Minimum System Requirements:
* Windows XP or Windows 2000.
* Pentium III, 1 GHz or faster.
* 512MB of RAM or more.
* Approx 700 Mb Hard disk space or more
* CD-ROM or DVD-ROM Drive
* SVGA Display (1024x768)
* Sound Card with Microsoft DirectSound Compatible driver.
* LAN/network card must be installed, or a USB network card must be connected to the USB port
Recommended System:
* Windows XP.
* Pentium 4, 1.7 GHz or faster.
* I GB of RAM or more
Supported Interfaces & Standards:
VST** 2.0, ReWire**, Windows MME.
Recommended Retail Price:
$199.95 US Dollars (169 Euros / 114.95 pounds sterling, including VAT)
VIRTUAL MALE VOCALIST, powered by Yamaha VOCALOID? Singing Synthesis Technology.
VOCALOID is an entirely NEW kind of instrument, that uses the natural tone and articulation of a real human voice as its source - allowing the user to synthesize incredible vocals, the like of which have never been experienced before. It can also even sound remarkably like a real singer if required, with an unprecedented degree of realism for a synthesizer.
When it comes to creating vocal tracks, Yamaha's VOCALOID singing synthesis technology changes everything. Even a singing voice can now be SYNTHESIZED to a remarkable degree, through LOLA, LEON, MIRIAM, the VOCALOID virtual vocalists from Zero-G, thanks to the incredible new technology developed by Yamaha.
Since its first release, VOCALOID has already been greatly improved: Yamaha have provided many enhanced features and improvements in a major software update (version 1.1), which is free to registered users as a downloadable update at the Vocaloid.com website.
To download a free TRYOUT VERSION of the Vocaloid software (PC only), please click HERE
LEON is a virtual male soul vocalist modelled on a real professional singer, and when he is installed into your PC he will allow you to create synthesized singing with an unprecedented human quality. LEON will sing ANY words you ask him to in English - literally anything. You can create singing in any lyrics you want. You enter notes, type in lyrics, and the software renders the synthesized vocal. Then add expression to taste, and render again. LEON is under your total control.
"Vocaloid Lola is clearly going to be big in the music business. The start of something huge in modern music. Fascinating software which delivers everything it promises - and there's more to come!" - VOCALOID LOLA Review in MUSIC TECH Magazine, UK, rated 9/10 and MUSIC TECH RECOMMENDED Award.
"I can think of a number of creative situations where Vocaloid would certainly be useful, particularly for backing vocals. I'm very keen to see where Yamaha and Zero-G take this product next, with the release of Miriam being the obvious next highlight. Vocaloid is a brave undertaking, and hats off to both Yamaha and Zero-G for having the ambition to take such a significant first step!..." - VOCALOID LEON & LOLA Review feature in SOUND ON SOUND Magazine, UK.
"It can enhance compositions with solos or choruses of vocalists synthesized by the computer. The composer can realize complicated polyphonies, the jazz artist can realize backing vocals with realistic jazzy effects, and the experimenter will be able to create impossible effects with human voices. Pros: Impressive realistic choruses, perfect English pronunciation and reproduces jazz vocal effects with great realism." - VOCALOID LOLA Review from PC OPEN, Italy, rated 9/10
"From the sound, the Vocaloid voices can quite impress. They sing each speed, each note and at the same time, even simulate perfectly, the rhythm of human speech. Even the ending behavior of longer notes is affectionately copied. As the first software of its kind Vocaloid is unique, and I am very intrigued as to what will be forthcoming over the years thanks to this technology." - VOCALOID LEON and LOLA Review from Keyboards, Germany.
"The usage of Vocaloid is very captivating, and it is frankly magic to make text sing by computer!" - VOCALOID LOLA Review from MUSICRUN Magazine, France.
"As an amateur songwriter, who struggles with a computer far from powerful enough to run the necessary software to record vocals of good quality, I have looked for good solutions. I have had the pleasure of testing Leon, the Virtual Soul Vocalist. The complexity hidden behind the seemingly simplistic interface is astonishing. I hardly had to look at the manual at all while exploring ? quite atypical for music software. Leon is astonishing." - VOCALOID LEON Review by Haakon R. Ueland, for MENSA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL and website www.smartsoftware.org
"Vocaloid is really the most innovative piece of software which has been released in a while. It's really taking voice synthesis to a whole new level. This is a great way for many bedroom and also professional composers to have great vocals in their music. I have given Vocaloid the maximum score because it's such a great technological progression in music making. It's just the thing many producers have been waiting for." - VOCALOID LOLA Review from www.StudioFreaks.com, RATED 10 out of 10
"In 2003, Yamaha created a product that they call "Vocaloid". Its programming can be input by any musician; its basic graphical user interface is much like any software-based synthesizer. When all the programming is complete, press play, and it sings. No, not computer generated singing -- but it sings with a human voice that has been digitally sampled, deconstructed, and re-assembled according to your input. And Vocaloid can do its own harmonies and back-up vocals." - VOCALOID LOLA Review from Tech Central Station article "The Making of a Pop Star, 2010" by Edward B. Driscoll Jr., (www.techcentralstation.com)
YAMAHA VOCALOID SOFTWARE ENGINE ? Accolades to date:-
- Game Audio Network Guild voted Yamaha's Vocaloid "Best New Audio Technology" in the Industry & Trade Category at their 2nd Annual G.A.N.G. Awards Show, March 25th 2004
- Popular Science Magazine voted Yamaha's Vocaloid as runner up in their General Innovation category of the "Best of What's New 2003" Awards.
Your own backing singers.
With Vocaloid, creating your own backing vocals is a realistic proposition - even for complex harmonies and arrangements. And as you gradually develop your Vocaloid editing skills, you will find that with patience even lead vocal lines are possible, thanks to the arsenal of expression tools provided, which permit editing and manipulation of the finest nuances.
IMAGINE what all this could mean for your music
Now you can COMMUNICATE emotion so directly. You can add HUMANITY to ANY production in ANY style, with your own private virtual vocalist. You can create backing vocals in harmonies for your tracks. With skill and application you can create unprecedented vocal realism. OR... you can live in the exciting world between human and machine, where Vocaloid can even provide vocals that sound like they were performed by a superhuman virtuoso android. Using Vocaloid in this way, as a true hybrid of human voice and synthesizer, the potential for innovation is limited only by your own imagination.
What will YOU make LEON sing?
Do you simply want him to perform your lyrical ideas in a rough form as an aid to your songwriting process? Or will you use his freedom from human limitations to create stunningly innovative and experimental vocal effects? He can sing over a superb pitch range, he can sing much faster than a human could if you want him to, as fast as you like in fact, and he can jump any interval yet hit every note beautifully, IF that's want YOU want him to do. And he'll NEVER tire or complain.
In addition to singing any words or combination of syllables you can imagine, LEON will spread any sustained vowel (or voiced consonant) across as many notes as you like, with perfect legato. You can select from several different natural vibrato types and drag and drop your chosen type to any note or notes, and control the time-position and amount of the vibrato.
And that's just the beginning - you have control over all of the following parameters, which you can bring to bear on any part of your creation:
- Changing syllables/phonemes (e.g. enter "liddle" instead of "little" etc).
- Timing of each note (precise position/length).
- Vibrato (you can change its type/position/amount/frequency).
- Volume.
- Attack.
- Crescendo or diminuendo.
- Pitch bend (amount, and positionable in time).
- Glide (portamento).
- Resonance (Frequency/bandwidth/amplitude).
- Harmonics.
- Noise.
- Brightness.
- Clearness.
- Gender factor.
- And of course, you can even change the singer (if you have purchased and installed more than one virtual singer) - perhaps get LOLA or MIRIAM to sing your creation instead of LEON. Instantly.
Numerous audio demos can be auditioned by going to the VOCALOID DEMOS PAGE
To watch a VOCALOID TUTORIAL VIDEO, which takes you through the basic steps in creating vocal lines with Vocaloid, click HERE
How Does It Work?
Few events have dramatically diverted the course of musical history. Synthesis, MIDI, Sampling - inventions of this magnitude are very rare events indeed. Singing Synthesis is such an event. Most acoustic instruments can be simulated well using various synthesis techniques, but (until Yamaha's Vocaloid techology came along) the singing voice resisted any serious simulation attempts. Hardly surprising, since singing has an extremely wide range of articulations, timbres, and transitions between sounds. And singing can communicate words as well as melody, which means you have a double layer of meaning, unlike other instruments. The human ear is so used to hearing the voice that even the finest tonal shifts or anomalies are immediately noticed. However, Yamaha's Vocaloid is in fact a totally new vocal-synthesis technology, achieving a much higher level of sophistication in this exciting area! The team at the Yamaha Advanced System Development Center in Japan has created software that emulates the singing voice with incredible accuracy.
Zero-G's development team have been working closely with Yamaha to create many 'vocal fonts' (virtual vocalists) for the Vocaloid system. The team starts each project by recording a professional vocalist singing literally all possible phonemes and transitions between syllables. Each transition is slightly different depending on the particular combination of phonemes, and these differences play a big part in how we understand words and whether a vocal track sounds natural or artificial. For example, the phoneme "p" sounds slightly different at the beginning of a word than it does at the end, and it affects the vowels next to it differently than, say, the phoneme "t".
The recordings of the professional singers are converted to the frequency domain using Fast Fourier Transform and divided into thousands of separate phonetic transitions which are processed in a unique way and then stored for use with the Vocaloid synthesis engine. Expressive tools such as vibrato, pitch bend, and attack are also derived from the real singing and stored separately.
To create a vocal track, you enter music and lyrics into the Vocaloid Editor (see screenshot). The melody can be entered by hand in the piano-roll style Editor or imported from a Standard MIDI File; the words are entered manually (either as words or as phonemes). Expressive elements can be imported from a MIDI File previously saved by the Vocaloid Editor, or entered via a graphic palette using drag-and-drop. Further detailed programming of expression parameters can be done graphically, for finely detailed results.
The data that you have entered in the Editor is sent to the synthesis engine, which fetches what it needs from the phonetic and expression databases to synthesize the track. To sing the word "part", for example, the software combines four elements from the phonetic database: "p" (as it sounds at the beginning of a word), "p-ar" (the transition from "p" to "ar"), "ar-t" (the transition from "ar" to "t"), and "t" (as it sounds at the end of a word). The two "ar" elements are blended together, and the resulting vowel "a" is lengthened as necessary to accommodate your chosen melody and rhythm.
Different pitches are derived by shifting the fundamental and overtones while leaving the vowel formants relatively untouched. The database elements were derived from phrases originally sung at different pitches, limiting the amount of shifting the engine needs to do (and therefore improving ultimate realism). A Pentium 4/ 2GHz computer should take less than one-third to half real time to render the track in the frequency domain and convert it into the time domain for use. For example, a 1-minute track can be rendered in less than 30 seconds.
Unlimited Horizons
The potential for Yamaha's Singing Synthesis Technology is virtually unlimited. LEON (together with his companion LOLA) are the genesis, the "Adam and Eve" of the new era of virtual singing. A third virtual vocalist, MIRIAM has already taken Vocaloid to new heights. Pretty soon you are going to hear synthesized vocals in a lot of music. Don't get left out of the picture. Experience the difference VOCALOID can make for yourself!
PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS:
Package Includes:
* VOCALOID Editor
* VOCALOID VST** Instrument
* VOCALOID LEON Male Vocal Font
VOCALOID Editor Features:
* Vocal Edit & Synthesis environment.
* Piano-roll note editor
* Easy-to use lyric editing.
* Drag & Drop musical expression assigning.
* Reads VOCALOID vocal libraries.
* Synthesizing vocal tracks (not real-time).
* Saving vocal data as wave files.
* Up to 16 vocal tracks.
* Standard MIDI File Input/Output.
* 104-page full-colour printed Owner's Manual provided.
* Video Tutorial provided (.AVI movie).
VOCALOID VST**/ReWire** Instrument:
* Reads VOCALOID vocal libraries
* Plays vocal MIDI tracks generated by VOCALOID Editor via VST- or ReWire-compatible host sequencer**.
* Easy to manipulate voice characteristics
**Users of FL Studio and SONAR 3.1.1 please note: The ReWire functionality of Vocaloid does not work properly with FL Studio. Also the VST Instrument cannot be used with VST hosts that do not send NRPN's. FLStudio and Sonar 3.1.1 are such VST hosts. However, both functions (ReWire and VSTi) work in Cubase VST/SX and other major sequencers.
VOCALOID LEON Vocal Library (virtual soul vocalist):
* Complete male voice in English, in professional quality.
* Suits all soul and dance music styles, but also many other styles.
* Full coverage of phonemes. You can use any English lyrics you want.
* Vibrato templates and expression templates as typically used in natural singing.
Minimum System Requirements:
* Windows XP or Windows 2000
* Pentium III, 1 GHz or faster
* 512MB of RAM or more
* Approx 700 Mb Hard disk space or more
* CD-ROM or DVD-ROM Drive
* SVGA Display (1024x768)
* Sound Card with Microsoft DirectSound Compatible driver
* LAN/network card must be installed, or a USB network card must be connected to the USB port
Recommended System:
* Windows XP
* Pentium 4, 1.7 GHz or faster
* I GB of RAM or more
Supported Interfaces & Standards:
VST** 2.0, ReWire**, Windows MME.
Recommended Retail Price:
$199.95 US Dollars (169 Euros / 114.95 pounds sterling, including VAT)
Who are the OhmBoyz ? 4 predelays injecting into 2 nicely geared delay lines, two complete resonant filters, distortion and high shelf. Remember, a delay is an echoing device. You really should prepare your sound to travel through space along with the OhmBoyz.
* This delay does not "click".
* LFOs everywhere.
* Who wants a resonant filter ? high pass, low pass, band notch, wah-wah, adjustable bandwidth and resonance from -24dB to +24dB : enough to deafen to death your most respectable neighbours.
* Serious distortion ! Choose between overdrive and puncher... or anywhere in between...
* A high-shelf filter, to shunt the highest sounds, useful after heavy distortion.
* Move several buttons in one move, with group selection and side-click.
* Instant result : with many sequencers (cubase, Orion...), OhmBoyZ adjusts itself to the right tempo and follows any occurring change.
* MIDI Automation.
* Useful presets, loadable on-the-fly, that can be applied instantly or with long or very long transitions where all the parameters switch from the old value to the new one in a ballet you won't forget.
* Five effects for the price of one : delays, resonant filter, distortion, high shelf ... Use what you want or need. All those effects, together, provides an unusual result : OhmBoyZ.
Frohmage is a multi-band resonant filter. It can offer some unique sounds, from slow and deep filter sweeps to the most savage tones with high resonance setting and heavy distortion.
* Highly resonant low-pass filter.
* Cutoff frequency unit selection : Hz or musical note.
* Up to 15 additional bands, harmonically distributed.
* Delay on each band for unique phaser effects.
* Distortion stage, with two routing schemes.
* Very fine MIDI control (PRN and NPRN sent or recorded by Frohmage are 14-bit accurate).
* Low CPU load.
Create your own Ethnic percussion rhythmz for today'z RnB HipHop! This multi-format collection contains over 500 ethnic percussion samples (over 160mb!) from 21 diverse ethnic percussion instruments ranging from the Talking Drum to the Djembe to the Cajon!
This multi-format collection contains over 500 ethnic percussion samples from 21 high-quality percussion instruments: Agogo Bell, Berimbau, Cabasa, Cajon, Chaker, Chime, Congas, Cowbell Clave, Djembe, Doumbek, Gankogui, Guiro, NuBellTree, Pandeiro, Rainstick, SleighBell, TalkingDrum, Timbale, Tombek, Triangle, and the Udu. The set features accurately recorded percussion samples, capturing all nuances of sound along with core samples. Each instrument is multi-sampled by an average of 25 samples per preset. All percussion samples are laid out across the keyboard according to specific timbres where users can easily create realistic percussion performances by simply playing samples in a chromatic order.
With the 21 multi-format presets included in this Ethnic Percussion Collection, creating powerful realistic ethnic hiphop beats has never been easier! Each instrument can be loaded into all major software samplers out of the 6 major software sampler formats provided. Get current. Get ethnic. Get Ethnic HipHop Percussion!
erstmal vielen Dank, für Deine Geilen Uploads!!!!!!!!
Ich habe mal eine Frage an Dich:
Kennst Du ein PlugIn mit dem man Backingvocals (1. 2. Stimme) evtl. auch Chor erstellen kann? Ich glaub? wenn Du das nicht kennst, kennt das keiner :-)
Chris
Bin zwar weniger mit Vocals beschäftigt, aber wenn du das Vocalsample mit einem Pitchshifter oder einem Formatshifter bearbeitest und das veränderte Vocal zusammen mit dem Original abspielst, dürfte das in etwa dem entsprechen, was du meinst...
AVOX is a "Vocal Toolkit" consisting of five "state-of-the-art" vocal processors that give you the power to create stunning vocal tracks in any musical style as well as design unique vocal effects for audio post-production applications.
AVOX includes:
* THROAT Physical Modeling Vocal Designer - lets you process a vocal through a meticulously crafted physical model of the human vocal tract.
* DUO Vocal Modeling Auto-Doubler - using a simplified version of THROAT's vocal modeling, along with variations in pitch, timing and vibrato depth, DUO automatically generates a doubled vocal part from an existing vocal.
* CHOIR Vocal Multiplier - turns a single voice into up to 32 distinct individual unison voices, each with its own pitch, timing and vibrato variations.
* PUNCH Vocal Impact Enhancer - PUNCH gives your vocal more dynamic impact, allowing it to cut through a dense mix with clarity and power.
* SYBIL Variable Frequency De-Esser - tames vocal sibilance with a flexible compressor and a variable highpass frequency to match any vocal performance.
ultravoice is a real-time VST Plug-In for changing the pitch of a voice
while maintaining its natural character. Because ultravoice is sensitive
to the nature of the human voice, it can even manipulate the character of
the voice while changing its pitch. When a person sings a series of notes
at differing pitches, many people are aware that the vocal cords in the
throat are vibrating at corresponding frequencies. But what is important
is what is staying the same; the natural resonances of the body and head
remain relatively static, and color and build the tone of the voice. Early
attempts to digitally shift the pitch of instruments have been marked by
their failure to modify the human voice in a way that created a believable
result. Even then the processing is often off-line. ultravoice shifts the
human voice in real-time and does so without creating the often quoted
'singing rodent' effect. ultravoice has independent controls for the pitch
shift and character profile. These can be unlinked for natural pitch shifting
or used interactively to create a range of effects such as simulating other
singing voices, and even imprinting the character of the male voice onto a
female vocalist, and other similar effects. The human voice is something
that we all know so well even small processing artefacts are immediately
obvious. ultravoice understands.
Note : This plugin has just been renamed by steinberg to VoiceDesigner, same
features, no upgrades, just the name and gfx changed.
VoiceMachine - Real-time vocal pitch transformer units
VoiceMachine consists of two new real-time voice effect tools for the
VST PC and Mac platform.
The VM Generator allows you to work with your voice in the same way that
you would use an instrument. This way a layout for a backing choir can be
created in minutes, reducing recording time to a minimum. The VD Generator
creates up to 4 additional voices by simply triggering them via MIDI Note
On/Off events in real-time. Your vocal arrangements can be easily played
alongside your lead vocal. Just use your keyboard or draw in your MIDI
note events in your favorite VST sequencer program. The VM Processor lets
you either change the melody or simply correct the intonation by changing
the pitch of a voice while maintaining its natural character.
Features:
=========
* Real-time natural pitch shifting (no 'singing rodent' effect)
* Independent control of pitch change and voice character
* Up to 4 additional voices out of a monophonic voice track (VM Generator)
* Triggered via MIDI Note On/Off
* LFO with different waveforms and delay for vibrato simulation
* All parameters can be addressed via definable MIDI controllers
* Smoothing intonation problems in vocal recordings (VM Processor)
Linear-Darstellung
