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Any love for Weina these days?

richiebee

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Weina seems to be the least popular choice for English speaking female singers. She has been out there quite a while now, and just wondering whether recent versions of Synth-V have improved her sound, and whether anyone is using her in new songs now? I can only find covers and old stuff out there in the wild. Would love to hear something on the latest version of Synth-V if anyone has anything.
 
Weina seems to be the least popular choice for English speaking female singers. She has been out there quite a while now, and just wondering whether recent versions of Synth-V have improved her sound, and whether anyone is using her in new songs now? I can only find covers and old stuff out there in the wild. Would love to hear something on the latest version of Synth-V if anyone has anything.
Lately I don't have time for this hobby, but I have tried the latest beta version and I have noticed some improvement in pronunciation, although since I am not a native speaker my ear misses many details.

One of Weina's problematic phonemes was /uh/ which sounded like /uw/, I attach a test singing "Your look, your Luke" with the db versions 104, 105 and 106b2 (last beta) consecutively in that order:

Your look, your Luke - Weina 104, 105 & 106b2

View attachment Your look, your Luke_Weina 104, 105,106b2.mp3

If you need a specific test, I don't mind rendering the files you send me.
 
Thanks. I appreciate that. If that's the worst of the pronunciation problems, it's not bad. It seems to me though that her voice audio quality doesn't live up to the price tag, even though the style, I think is pretty useful.

No question, we're spoilt for quality compared to just a few years ago, but while it gets better, its also reasonable that our standards move with it.
 
Weina seems to be the least popular choice for English speaking female singers. She has been out there quite a while now, and just wondering whether recent versions of Synth-V have improved her sound, and whether anyone is using her in new songs now? I can only find covers and old stuff out there in the wild. Would love to hear something on the latest version of Synth-V if anyone has anything.
I have used her a couple of times - but to be honest I haven't found the place in my composition where she is most suited. Overall I find myself using Solaria more and relegating Weina to backing duties.

With the improved ability to play with the vibrato etc (which was a little much for me with Solaria initially) I find myself defaulting to her instead.

Here are some tracks I have tried writing with her:

Weina lead vocal:

Weina is some harmony parts (towards end of track) :

Solaria (more balanced vibrato):

But i don't do covers just original music so she maybe more suited in genres I haven't explored yet:/
 
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I have used her a couple of times - but to be honest I haven't found the place in my composition where she is most suited. Overall I find myself using Solaria more and relegating Weina to backing duties.

With the improved ability to play with the vibrato etc (which was a little much for me with Solaria initially) I find myself defaulting to her instead.

Here are some tracks I have tried writing with her:

Weina lead vocal:

Weina is some harmony parts (towards end of track) :

Solaria (more balanced vibrato):

But i don't do covers just original music so she maybe more suited in genres I haven't explored yet:/

Wonderful demos. Thanks so much for sharing.
 
Lately I don't have time for this hobby, but I have tried the latest beta version and I have noticed some improvement in pronunciation, although since I am not a native speaker my ear misses many details.

One of Weina's problematic phonemes was /uh/ which sounded like /uw/, I attach a test singing "Your look, your Luke" with the db versions 104, 105 and 106b2 (last beta) consecutively in that order:

Your look, your Luke - Weina 104, 105 & 106b2

View attachment Your look, your Luke_Weina 104, 105,106b2.mp3

If you need a specific test, I don't mind rendering the files you send me.
Third one sounds perfectly fine to my ears. As always, much obliged.
 
Thanks. I appreciate that. If that's the worst of the pronunciation problems, it's not bad. It seems to me though that her voice audio quality doesn't live up to the price tag, even though the style, I think is pretty useful.

No question, we're spoilt for quality compared to just a few years ago, but while it gets better, its also reasonable that our standards move with it.
I've opened old Weina projects to test the last db beta version (106b2) and there is a great improvement in the pronunciation, the vowels are more defined and "native".

So I made a template in Synth V to listen to all the consonant-vowel-consonant combinations. Each track begins with a vowel and continues blending with all the consonants.

A picture is worth a thousand words:

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Each track sounds like this:

Weina - consonants + ey - C4 - db v106b2
View attachment Test C4_consonats_+_ey.mp3

You can listen to all tracks in this drive link:

This project (attached) is useful for testing any voice to compare English pronunciation between different versions by duplicating a track and changing the voice db version.

I also included 1 track to quickly listen to each of the English vowels with monosyllabic words:

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Weina - all vowels - C4 - db v105
View attachment Test C4_all_vowels_105.mp3

Weina - all vowels - C4 - db v106b2
View attachment Test C4_all_vowels_106b2.mp3

Reminder: Weina is a bilingual voice, so her English is not generated by cross-synthesis. At its launch it had quite a few flaws that, fortunately, have been corrected over time, which is fantastic.
 

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Sounds great, and thanks for the resource too. Maybe it is time to re-examine the possibilities.
 
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