Blooming

[lingyai]

Original track with video from several days of timelapse photography I did few years back - no AI used. Aiming for a Cocteau Twins dispensing codeine cough syrup in lala land of vibe



An audio version which might sound better is here

https://soundcloud.com/st-josephs-socia ... al_sharing

[wagtunes]

Very cool track. Such a nice song. Loved it. In fact, one of my favorite things I've herd of late. How did you do the vocals?

[lingyai]

Very cool track. Such a nice song. Loved it. In fact, one of my favorite things I've herd of late. How did you do the vocals?

Very kind words! I'm glad you liked it.

The lead vocal uses Soundiron's Mimi Page Light & Shadow Kontakt library, specifically its phrases sub-library. This has melodic phrases in some apparently made-up language for certain scales (noted in the nki name), so you have to choose from those which match your project in that respect. It can however sync them to the DAW tempo. The phrases are mapped to your keyboard, so it's matter of playing the track and just trying different ones at different times to see what fits. I find that I can usually bumble into something nice within a few minutes. So, it's not super-versatile like Audimee etc - you can't make it sing your lyrics or melody; instead, you work with what it gives you. But when it's nice, it's very nice indeed - Mimi has a great voice and expression.

The backing voclas are from Rast Sound's Vocalisa Kontakt library, which uses a Balkan choir - no word-builder, and only limited articulations, but has a special flavour.

[oneguitarband]

I liked it too! Is this a real acoustic guitar recording or have you used samples?

[CrystalWizard]

That's my second really pleasant listen in The Cafe today. Good piece.

[ecamburn]

Really pretty vocals. Some really interesting movement in the chord progression. Great production.