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VOCALOID Commercial singing synthesizer based on sample concatenation. Hideki Kenmochi, Hayato Ohshita Center for Advanced Sound Technologies, Yamaha Corporation, Japan. System Diagram. Diphones sustained portions (Multiple pitches). Timing adjustment Pitch transposition
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VOCALOIDCommercial singing synthesizer based on sample concatenation Hideki Kenmochi, Hayato Ohshita Center for Advanced Sound Technologies, Yamaha Corporation, Japan Center for Advanced Sound Technologies, YamahaCorporation
System Diagram • Diphones • sustained portions • (Multiple pitches) • Timing adjustment • Pitch transposition • Timbre manipulation Center for Advanced Sound Technologies, Yamaha Corporation
Note ON[s I N] Note ON [@] Note ON[s Q N] Phonetic track # s s I I I N N @ @ @ s s Q Q Q N N # s I N s I N @ @ s Q N s Q N Pitch track Synthesis Score “Sing a song” [s I N @ s Q N] Center for Advanced Sound Technologies, Yamaha Corporation
Concatenation s I I I N Use as it is Fluctuations from sustained portion added Timbre(Spectralenvelope) Last Frame First Frame Interpolation LocalSpectrum Center for Advanced Sound Technologies, Yamaha Corporation
Pitch transposition & timbre manipulation Center for Advanced Sound Technologies, Yamaha Corporation
Pitch transposition & timbre manipulation Center for Advanced Sound Technologies, Yamaha Corporation
Score Editor • Dedicated environment for singing synthesis • Note / Lyric input • Vibrato setting • Control over synthesis parameters Center for Advanced Sound Technologies, Yamaha Corporation
Piano-roll editor Control Track Center for Advanced Sound Technologies, Yamaha Corporation
Realtime keyboard performance mode • Lyrics input in advance • Keyboard triggers note [Video Clip] Center for Advanced Sound Technologies, Yamaha Corporation
VOCALOID Products • Version 1 (released in 2004) • Version 2 (released in 2007) Meiko Kaito LEON LOLA MIRIAM Big-AL Sweet ANN Prima Miku Center for Advanced Sound Technologies, Yamaha Corporation
Audio Demos • “Amazing Grace” • Compulsory Center for Advanced Sound Technologies, Yamaha Corporation
Acknowledgements • The basic signal processing technique used in Vocaloid is developed though a joint research project between Yamaha Corporation and Music Technology Group (MTG), Universitari Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. • The authors would like to thank the staff at MTG, especially to Mr. Jordi Bonada and Dr. Alex Loscos, for their contribution to Vocaloid. Center for Advanced Sound Technologies, Yamaha Corporation
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