Are you sure? I use EWSC and
have no problems have very little problem can with some massaging can with a lot of work get it to say whatever I want.
Heh.
'English' and 'Phonetic' weren't cutting it at all. I tried VoTox`......
The 'y' didn't sound right by itself as the lead-off syllable in front of an 'o', so I tried putting an arbitrarily-short 'EE' in front of the 'y'. After circa 17.2 hours of tearfully adjusting each letter's relative timeline length, volume envelope and CC11 envelope, I thought that I had reached something marginally close to a halfway-decent demihemisemi-recognizable "yo" syllable.......
. . . and then I played the same syllable on some different keys and heard something dramatically different, depending upon which note I was playing.
On some notes, the EE segues smoothly into the 'y' so that it actually sounds like a proper 'yo'.
On other notes the 'EE' sounds like an odd percussive blip, separate and preceding the 'y'.
On other notes, I hear a blend of 'EE' and 'ah'.
On still other notes, I hear mostly 'ah'. Little or no trace of the 'EE' or the 'y', never mind the 'o'.
The hell . . . ? ? ?
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There is a VoTox for a hard 'g', but it's usually barely audible, and adjusting the volume and CC11 values makes almost no difference (even just using the close mics with no reverb) — on some notes it sounds like it's being 'swallowed' by the singers, and on other notes it's not there at all, I can only hear the VoTox vowel that follows it.
So, for example, 'gEE' will often sound more like just plain 'EE', sometimes with a very brief, weird 'blank space' preceding it (again, it depends upon which note I happen to be pressing).
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I was curious about Realivox Blue, and I realize that videos put up by strangers on The Youtubes don't necessarily reflect a given library's actual capabilities. But I sat stoically through the first 1:03 of this "Love Me Tender" recreation, until I heard "Never let me ohhhhhhhhh" and shed tears stronger and heavier than even The King himself could elicit from my cynical, world-weary orbs:
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"Amazing . . . place?"
Is a convincing hard 'g' sound really that hard to reproduce?