User blog:Angel Emfrbl/Breathiness helps...

Apparently Sonika sounds bad overall but you can at least achieve a sort niravana with her for a moment at least. Also, the guys at VO are right, breathiness does help a lot, it makes her voice a bit raspy though.

When thing I will note is once you've got Sonika pretty much cracked in the strength department, suddenly she dominates other Vocaloids and even is drowning out Al. A 3 voice technique, seems to work at least to do this, but you need "surround sound" with it, basically one on the left, one in the middle and one on the right of the speaker output.

But regardless, 3 Sonika's is the EASY trick to get her loud and clear in Vocaloid with little effort. HOWEVER, the elastic band tingy sound kicks in again, so you can't do this within the Vocaloid software itself. You don't have to have them sing in the same octaves, it works if you have a chorus of different vocals. Though Sonika just goes wierd in the bottom octaves and lower, I've gone for this. The trio of Sonika's with one medium, one high and one lower, it makes the effect I'm looking for. Al's is just able to be slightly heard over Sonika; he is singing out of the same speaker as lowset Sonika, he adds a sort of demon-like quality to the vocals of lower Sonika if he is just heard about her at lowest level (I reported ealier in a blog low Sonika + a on par volumed Big Al naturally blend into a creepy voice).

However, Al and Sonika well... They don't alway synchronize with each other. In one of my earlier rough works I put together, Al said the word "the" straight after Sonika sound it out, and it sort of noticed. Most of the time they sing together alright, however, odd times they won't. Another word they don't always want to sing together is "and".

I must admit, now I'm seeing what I can do with Sonika, I'm definately enjoying using her more, but its not a pleasent experience and Sonika wants to do her own thing all the time. I picked out the instruments already, so a few more adjustments and its off to the composing shop. Not much left to do, and considering I don't even expect the completed work to be that brilliant or impress anyone with this... Oh wells, it won't be the worst on youtube - I've seen a french made video where Sweet Ann so flat you could throw her on some table legs and eat your diner plate off of her.