hi!!! in an attempt to get the motivation to start sharing things more i thought I'd share a joke cover I made with SOLARIA of the nyan neko sugar girls theme!! if I post it to YouTube I'll show my tuning too :) i think it sounds good all things considered idk

THE WKM MUSICAL IS AT 10K

i made a track for @eclipsedsounds newest SynthV voice, SAROS, and it is finally out. i'd have to say their voice is exactly what i'm looking for in a powerful and versatile tenor. . . ? mid-to-wide range?? either way, knowing how i make stuff... i'd like to imagine i gave SAROS a pretty neat challenge.

Spanish is coming to SynthV AI!

From Dreamtonics official Twitter:

Dreamtonics is teaming up with @eclipsedsounds to add Spanish vocal synthesis capability to Synthesizer V Studio. Listen to the full demo (on YouTube) of SAROS singing in Spanish! More info coming soon.

From Eclipsed Sounds official Twitter:

Aku P demonstrates SAROS' unique capabilities in an exhilarating piece that spans their ideal range and accessible tones - as well as shows off a "special addition" that we have completed the development for.

Read more on Eclipsed Sounds blog

https://twitter.com/eclipsedsounds/status/1715210483198722156 💫

Rice came out with a new comic for Eclipsed Sounds!

Oh Solaria. Tries so hard to appear more mature & professional but she'll always be a child at heart. We love you for it Sol don't worry~! ☺

Also love how Asterian just stares in quiet amusement at his wife fangirling at the newest member of their team. It's adorable to him; reminds him of when they first met~♡ 😊

Also, I wanna say that Rice's drawing of Saros in this comic is kind of, surprisingly very accurate to what I've been speculating them to be like. The stylish, flamboyant, super outgoing, confident, sassy but affectionate theater kid-type.

And for some strange reason I also picture Saros as the type who (platonically) calls everybody "Honey".

Yeah, idk, just silly headcanon ideas. 🤷🏿‍♀️

Woo! I'm glad Saros is joining the comic now! I also see them as having theater kid energy but also like very elegant and geaceful.

was anyone going to tell me that the ceo of eclipsedsounds follows me on twt or what i supposed to figure that out myself

Here’s the official illustration I created for @eclipsedsounds' crowdfunded Synth V, SOLARIA! Good luck to the whole team!

A high resolution version of this artwork is also available as a backer reward:

The Indiegogo campaign

On @indiegogo: 103% Counting external funding, 120%+ Attention #musicproducers! Get in on the ground floor of the first fully crowdfunded English VocalSynth. Campaign ends Midnight Pacific. Link in @eclipsedsounds bio or here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/new-virtual-singer-solaris--3 (at Latona, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQpOVFmJV5x/?utm_medium=tumblr

HI!!!! I JUST UPLOADED A SAROS COVER I AM SUPER PROUD OF!!!!! IT HAS SOLARIA IN THE HARMONIES TOO!!!!! PLEASE GIVE IT A LISTEN I LOVE HOW IT TURNED OUT!!!!!

Thank You SOLARIA

Thank you SOLARIA and Eclipsed Sounds for these wonderful (almost) 3 years. She's the reason that I got the inspiration to even start making covers and I fell in love with her as soon as I saw and heard her. I would not be the same person and would not be doing as good as I am now nor would my life probably be the same. Again, thank you Eclipsed Sounds!

I was reading about Saros license and I saw that "if the Lite version is being used, the SVD must be attributed as “SAROS Lite”. does this mean that there's going to be a lite version for others?

Thank you for your question! We intend for SAROS to have a Lite version just like ASTERIAN and SOLARIA do, and we will likely release it later next year (2024) after the completion of our next project.

A few questions I have about ASTERIAN! I'm looking forward to him! He looks and sounds amazing!

How difficult was it to choose his name and what was the reason for choosing it?

What can you tell us about his design concept and how it came to be today?

Are you able to speak on the choosing of Eric Hollaway as his voicer?

Thank you for your enthusiasm about ASTERIAN, and my apologies for our hiatus from this platform!

ASTERIAN's name choice was quite difficult - we changed it many times over development to try to find a sound that fit! I discussed it more in our response to a previous ask from our hiatus backlog.

As for his design - ASTERIAN went through a few concepts, but we settled on this look fairly quickly! The basic idea was the same as SOLARIA - to create a unique look that (ignoring the cape) has a more modern silhouette but blends in more fantasy aspects as well. While I can't share the early concept art as it was done as an internal paint-over from a non-stock photograph, I can describe the process a bit. His hairstyle was decided immediately to be twists as that is also the signature look of his voice provider, but we gave him long hair to push the design into fantasy a bit more and add another aspect that was the opposite of SOLARIA. We chose to keep the gold alongside his blue color scheme to show that our vocals are equals (rather than "downgrading" the rarity of metal), as well as to warm his overall color scheme to match his voice. A silver metal also washes out his color scheme and makes him far less interesting, so we settled on gold as our standard. Other design aspects we discussed were similar to the hair decision, choosing to do the opposite of what is done in SOLARIA's design. For instance, SOLARIA's metalwork lays on top of her design & is more decorative while ASTERIAN's functions more as the "bones" of his clothing, and the opposite is true of their armor pieces, with SOLARIA's appearing more functional in nature and ASTERIAN's being more decorative & jewelry adjacent.

I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for with regard to our voice selection process - but we knew that Eric Hollaway was perfect after the first time hearing him sing! We scouted across multiple different social media and casting platforms for ASTERIAN's voice, a process that we have continued for projects after him, and when we found Eric we were immediately charmed. We firmly believed that a bass vocal was necessary for this project, as one had not been created before as a commercial synthesized vocal to our knowledge. With the goal of creating voices to fill the gaps in available voices, it was clear that Eric would be the right choice. We are incredibly pleased with how well his unique tone carried into ASTERIAN! It may be interesting to note that SAROS was also in the scouting stages at the same time as ASTERIAN had been! Due to scheduling conflicts, SAROS' voice provider was not able to begin recording until the beginning of this year.

Hello! I wanted to know if there's any plans in the works for a high soprano voicebank?

I keep thinking how lovely opera would sound on SynthV.

Currently we do not have plans for a high soprano nor opera library, but we are always open to feedback and suggestions and will keep this in mind. We encourage people to leave suggestions in our contact form with their ideas for collaborations and products they'd like to see!

will Asterian be getting lite version like Solaria did?

ASTERIAN will be getting a Lite version like SOLARIA did, after his original song contest is launched! While we had to delay this contest when our schedule was re-arranged to accommodate SAROS' development and other preparations for our appearance at the NAMM Show and continuing development afterwards, ASTERIAN's original song contest should be happening soon. We are hoping to minimize our overlap with the contest currently being run by our colleagues at AUDIOLOGIE, so please expect it to begin closer to the end of their contest.

Hi! Will ASTERIAN be also available on the dreamtonics store like SOLARIA is?

My apologies for the long wait on this question during our platform hiatus! While we can't be for sure - we are hoping to arrange ASTERIAN's distribution on the Dreamtonics international store & Taobao store before the release of SAROS. Right now, they are quite busy working on the development of Synthesizer V Studio's 1.9.0 update, so we can't be sure on the timeframe.

Oh hi! First, congratulations for the release of Asterian. He's heavenly! Second, I would like to ask you about something: where did you come up with the name "Asterian", considering that you are implying that the guy is themed around the moon yet the etymology has nothing to do about the moon. Could you clarify? Thank you!

Thank you for your support and interest in ASTERIAN! We themed ASTERIAN around the moon, but decided not to go with a more moon-themed name simply because all of the moon-related names we discussed just did not fit his voice right or were currently in use and trademarked by other synthesizers and VSTs. Additionally, many of them sounded "kitschy" or cheesy compared to our other vocals (SOLARIA and the in-development SAROS) whose names had already been decided. ASTERIAN's name was changed more during the concept phase than either of our other vocals!

For more on our choices for his name - "ASTERIAN" derives from "Asterion", which literally means "starry" in Greek but is also the name of a river god. We thought the atmosphere of the name was more important than its literal meaning, and the sound of it suits his warm tone perfectly.