Virtual Singer Voice synthesis settings Virtual Singer palette

In the Virtual Singer palette, several objects represent the actions you can perform:

Activate and deactivate Virtual Singer: the colored light in the upper left corner shows the status of Virtual Singer. A click on the bulb toggles this status. When Virtual Singer is activated, staves with lyrics are sung.

When Virtual Singer is activated, a stage is displayed, on which each character represents a sung staff. Since our programs can manage several sung staves within a single document, there may be several characters on the stage.

Character location on the stage shows:

• laterally, the voice panning (right or left location in the stereophonic space)
• by its depth, the voice's volume

Double-clicking on the character opens the simple settings window. A right-click (Shift+click on the Macintosh) on the character opens a pop-up menu which allows you to:

• Activate or deactivate this singer
• Edit the singer's icon
• Select the singer's icon from a predefined list.

Tuning the computing mode

To compute a sung staff, Virtual Singer creates an invisible digital audio track, and stores all the  voice data in it.
This computation is quite complex and may take a few tens of seconds.
The computing mode slider lets you select whether this work must be completed before the music starts (0% value) or whether a large part of this job can be performed while music is playing (100%).
This setting depends strongly on your computer. Select its value for optimal performance.

If the number of sung staves is too large or your computer is not fast enough, it won't have time to perform voice computation while the music is playing. You will hear breaks in the sung part. In that case, decrease the value of computing mode, to require that more of it be finished before the music begins to play.