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| Product | Cantor |
| Developer | VirSyn |
| Primary Type | Vocal Synth |
| Price (MSRP) | €349 |
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| Copy Protection | Dongle (Syncrosoft eLicenser) |
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Cantor is a sophisticated real-time vocal synthesis instrument that allows you to enter your lyrics in plain English or German and then "sing" them instantly by playing the melody on your MIDI keyboard. Realistic expression can be added with real-time parameters controlling vibrato rate and depth and you can change the character of the singing voice from female to male.
Cantor also goes beyond creating realistic "human" singers as many parameters have no relation to the human voice, for example "Metallize" apparently turns your virtual singer into a singing Gong!
Cantor's voice editor allows you to edit the character of your virtual singer by defining the base spectrum for vowels and consonants. The Phoneme editor gives you full access to the atoms of the vocal synthesis engine where you can define the formant structure and the noise characteristic of each phoneme used by the vocal engine.
Multi-timbral vocal synthesis:
- Realtime vocal synthesizer.
- 8 independent vocal lines (parts).
- English pronouncing dictionary with 120,000 words.
- German pronouncing dictionary with 100,000 words.
- VOSE vocal synthesis engine – no samples used.
- Built in sequencer with matrix editor.
- Voice editor for simulating the vocal cord.
- Phoneme editor for simulating the vocal tract.
- Individual modulations for each note.
- MIDI Import function for notes, lyrics, expression and pitch bend data.
- Manual/automatic operation with VST/Audio Unit/RTAS Host.
- Built in mixer for layer and split key functionality.
Realtime parameters:
- Brightness.
- Tension.
- Humanize.
- Metalize.
- Gender factor.
- Vibrato.
- Breath noise.
Miscellaneous:
- Scala compatible microtuning.
- MIDI Learn function.
3 Insert effects for every part:
- Distortion: Hard, Soft, Tape, Tube and simple tone control.
- Stereo delay / cross delay / echo with MIDI synchronization.
- Modulation effect.
- 8-pole phaser.
- Flanger.
- Roomsimulator (from shoe box to Taj Mahal ...).
All KVR Audio news items relating to Cantor.
| VirSyn releases CANTOR v2.1 | 6th February 2007 |
| VirSyn releases CANTOR 2 demo version | 12th December 2006 |
| VirSyn releases CANTOR 2 (incl. Universal Binary) | 4th December 2006 |
| VirSyn releases Cantor v1.6 demo version | 9th February 2005 |
| VirSyn releases Cantor v1.6 - now sings in German | 4th February 2005 |
| VirSyn Cantor v1.5 released | 20th December 2004 |
| VirSyn updates Cube, Tera & Cantor | 11th October 2004 |
| VirSyn Cantor v1.0.2 released | 5th August 2004 |
| VirSyn Cantor released | 5th July 2004 |
| VirSyn Cantor announced | 31st March 2004 |
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