Sorry, I'm mixing up the terminology. The voice is split into two channels coming out of SynthV. It calls one of those the aspiration channel and the other the "main" channel. Those route into individual tracks in the DAW. I'm calling the track fed by the main channel the formant track, just to distinguish it from the aspiration channel/track. (Hope that makes sense.)
What is an “aspiration”?
For an explanation from someone who understands it much better than me!
Whenever we sing or speak, we exhale air. This exhalation of air is part of our voice's sound. Some people naturally have "breathier" voices than others, but we can all control the amount of air we release. A girl, for example, might add lots of air to her voice to make it sound sultry (think Marilyn Monroe singing Happy Birthday to JFK.) Britney Spears is an example of a singer who often restricts airflow for effect. Air comes out with everything... vowels, consonants, plosives, sibilants, etc. Having that air on an independent track simply gives the producer more control over the vocal sound.
That's awesome! Thank you for the detailed information. I'm excited to try, hopefully I'll be able to start today. Maybe this will be the way to finally put 9z to good use! So far, I hadn't managed to make him suitable for my songs. If I'm (ever) able to create any useful results, I'll post them here. Thanks again for your help!Thanks! That is really good to hear. I'll keep playing at it. I'm afraid of sucking the life out him.
In case you want to try to recreate, here's what is done so far:
The voice is set to Muted 110%, Gender +0.150. The aspiration track is left as is but set -3db from the formant track.
The formant track has a send to Kilohearts Formant Filter, which is a free plugin from here. It's set like this:
It feeds back to the main formant track at -8.5db. That gives kind of a muffled push around 800 Hz.
There are dynamic 5db EQ notches at about 1050 Hz and at 1950 Hz.
Other than that, just the usual vocal compression /eq / reverb stuff.
but I've been notified about a YouTube clip of someone who has formerly worked with Ninezero (the real person), therefore is used to handling his voice and is now demonstrating how he's tuning the 9z voicebank. This is really useful, thank you! I've picked up Ninezero recently and have been struggling to get natural sounding performances.Still haven't got around to playing with 9z some more
I don't feel it was built with this idea. It is more high vocal range and high volume... I find it quite thin if used in the lower register with low tension/loudness
To me it sounds quite fine, except that the drums might be a tad too loud...
Could someone translate this to English? I’m having trouble figuring it out.To me it sounds quite fine, except that the drums might be a tad too loud...
Sorry, not sure what you mean exactly
Drums too loud. I can’t figure out what that means.Sorry, not sure what you mean exactly
Well, it just means that I'd turn down the volume of the drum kit (kick drum, snare, toms, cymbals etc.) a little bit because in my hearing it sits in front of everything else. But maybe it only seems so isolated because it's the only instrument that sounds clear, not "mangled" somehow? (That's just my personal impression, of course.)
You’re really taking the fun out of that joke.
Happy to brighten up your dayYou’re really taking the fun out of that joke.
As I'm not an English native speaker, would you please enlighten me, so I might have a laugh, too?
Drums can never be too loud!Happy to brighten up your day
