CANTOR 1.5 is a major upgrade incorporating a completely revised vocal synthesis engine. The new engine makes it now much easier to produce intelligible vocal lines.
This was 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 to provide you with creative vocal parts
for live and studio usage. All is possible - lively leadsounds, background choirs,
vocoder like effects, ... Due to the consequent design as a real synthesizer
without using samples the main usage of CANTOR is not primarily the replacement
of "human" singers but more the creation of new virtual character
voices whose base sound can be influenced by the user in an extremely flexible
manner. And all this is possible in realtime ! This opens up exciting possibilites
for live sessions too.
The following demosong should show you a small spectrum of what you can do
with CANTOR:
http://www.virsyn.de/Demo/K-EriC-INeedYourInspiration.mp3
With CANTOR an exciting new era of realtime vocal synthesis begins right now
! Imaging entering your lyrics in plain english and then “sing”
your lyrics instantly just by playing the melody on your MIDI Keyboard. Add
realistic expression with realtime parameters controlling vibrato rate and depth
or changing the character of the singing voice from female to male !
But CANTOR even goes beyond creating realistic “human” singers.
Many parameters have no relation to human vocals like “Metallize”
which turns your virtual singer more into a singing Gong...
The voice editor allows you to edit the character of your virtual singer by
defining the base spectrum for vowels and consonants.
For those of you ever wanting to create your own alien language the Phoneme
editor gives you full access to the atoms of the vocal synthesis engine. With
this editor you can define the formant structure and the noise characteristic
of each phoneme used by the vocal engine.
And remember that for any edits your are going to do the changes are immediately
audible in realtime !
To try out what you can do with CANTOR - please download the demoversion:
CANTOR Demo 1.5 Mac Version
http://www.virsyn.de/Demo/CANTORDemoMac.sit
CANTOR Demo 1.5 PC Version
http://www.virsyn.de/Demo/CANTORDemoPC.exe
Features:
° 8 part vocal synthesis engine
- plays lyrics in realtime
- english phoneme dictionary (120000 words)
- no samples used
- score editor
- voice editor
- phoneme editor
° Realtime editing
- Brightness
- Humanize
- Metallize
- Gender factor
- Vibrato
- Breath noise
° Interfaces
- stand alone mode
- VST 2 / AudioUnit
- ReWire / RTAS (Sept. 2004)
° Microtuning
- Scala compatible microtuning
System requirements:
- Mac G4 > 400 Mhz
- PC Pentium III > 600 Mhz
- Athlon XP/MP
- 256 MB RAM
- Mac OX 10.2 / WinXP
We hope you'll enjoy what you hear !
Your VirSyn Team
