[sweeny500]

First timer here. Hello! This song uses Yamaha Vocaloid as vocals. No humans involved. We're on the way out ya know. I cannot sing for peanuts so I resorted to electronic voices to see how the song sounds melodically before letting a real human at it (or not). But I just got attached to this one 'as is'. This is about as far away as you can get from 'one-man-and -his-guitar' style so its not everyone's cuppa. Nice to hear comments
https://soundcloud.com/user-685186175/dont-tell-me-now

[MichaelA]

Hi there, I’ve never heard synth vocals done like that. Wow, scary! Mind you’ve done very well with the melody and technical mastery of this. A really well layered electro pop backing track.Really interesting stuff.

If you join in on the forum you will get a bit more interest in your own stuff, by the way. Cheers 👍

[sweeny500]

Hey Michael, thanks for the feedback. BTW I just downloaded your ebook and....wow, you're a man of many words. I bet you could, and do, write some interesting lyrics. Thanks again

[MichaelA]

Hi @sweeny500 , thanks for downloading the book. Hope you enjoy it, and all the best 👍

[Maya Clars]

Very nice mix and beautiful voice!  I really like the vibe and the synths.
Beautiful and melodic song. Pleasure to listen to.

Maya

[sweeny500]

Thanks Maya. Was listening to your 'sugar coated waltz' last night and it is superb. My robots are no match for your voice. HaHa. Keep up the good work.

[man made material]

@sweeny500  a really fun piece of robot pop - ace! The vocal works really well so don’t apologise! I’d be tempted to robotify a little more and really make it a feature... Very hooky, love those little synth slide downs... that ‘down to the club, no’ section is great... it makes me think of the gossip mongers pod cast😁... really cool track... as mentioned, make comments on other people’s stuff, it’s a great community on here, I’m pretty new and people give so much if you’re willing to engage👍 Looking forward to hearing more from you

[sweeny500]

Thanks @Man Made Material. And there was me trying to humanise the robots. I getya with the gossip mongers. You're right it does. Thanks for all the valuable advise.

[kevysc]

Really interesting use of synth voice: I must check out Yamaha Vocaloid, might work for female backing vocals!

This is a really solid pop song and moves along very nicely with a relaxed vibe. Nice work, even without the robo-vocals, but made all the more interesting by having them in there.

Kevin

[sweeny500]

Hi @kevysc  Thanks for the comments. The the Vocaloid program has a shallow learning curve. Simply draw out your notes, double-click any note to insert word(s). It is great for backing Vocals. It must be easy if I can use it 

[crystalsuzy]

Hi and welcome sweeny500 This is very catchy melodic song and the robotic vocals are really interesting. Hopefully this is not the way of the future,
but I certainly enjoyed listening to your song. I would definitely like to try this software in a tune or two of mine, as I don't have the best voice either
You've done a great job on the backing track, so keep them coming

[pompeyjazz]

Clever stuff indeed. It's interesting as a lot of the modern stuff these days has so much vocal processing that it's hard to differentiate between a human and a robot  Nicely put together

[sweeny500]

@crystalsuzy
Thanks for the listen and comments. No, I don't think humans are replaceable as vocalists and I hope it doesn't go that way. I tried and tried to sing myself, had lessons (can't remember if tutor or I gave up first). So, I resort to session singers on the net or use Vocaloids (sounds like a medical condition you might get a cream for over the counter  ).

@pompeyjazz
Yes, a serious amount of processing going on in the modern pop world, even with singers that are really good and don't need it. I tried out one of those 'voice straighteners' to help me sing in tune but I even got that confused . Thanks for the comments 

[Neil C]

@sweeny500
Catchy piece of electro pop.
Takes a while to acclimatise to the vocals, which somehow give a far eastern feel..
Has the feel of an advert in there somewhere, product placement = £££?
:-)
neil

[ChrisPrice]

I always fancied a try with Vocaloid. It makes this song sound Japanese, not that I mind that. It works really well here though I'm not sure I could handle a whole album of it! It's a clever pop song with a really good arrangement. Not really what I normally listen to but I can't fault this.