What happens when AI-synthesized vocals meet choral notation?

Tokyo-based startup Dreamtonics is doing unparalleled work with AI-powered voices; their Synthesizer V Studio enables a level of precision that combines that of recording and synthesis. Add that to Steinberg’s Dorico scorewriter, and you get a machine mockup of solo singers and choirs that we’ve never heard before. But there are a lot of details involved — so let’s hear from an expert.

Vara Osiria Belich is taking Phase Plant to gestural, mangled frontiers

This is not granular. This is all sampler, unison. And so it sounds like things that even granular can’t do. Vara Osiria Belich is this week’s sound design inspiration, with her bonus gestural spell casting with gen-1 Leap Motion. (Remember?)

Peter Kirn - November 20, 2025

Physical modeling, modular explorations with Adam Pietruszko and AAS’ CV-3

Those sprawling synths are great, but when it comes to exploring a sound design idea compositionally, there’s nothing quite like a modular patch. I’ve long admired Adam Pietruszko’s work for AAS, so it’s a treat to watch him break down a patch and hear what he did on Rotors, bringing those leftfield sounds to dancefloor contexts.

Peter Kirn - November 18, 2025

Cubase is Japan’s biggest DAW, and you need to watch this Japanese review

Peter Kirn - November 6, 2025

Data Knot for Max is machine learning as musicians want it: human-focused

Peter Kirn - October 23, 2025

MPE meets modular, strings: AAS Multiphonics CV-3, Osmose, Soliste

Peter Kirn - September 29, 2025

More free motion in Pikimov – ease into Graph Editor; free vector tutorial

Peter Kirn - September 26, 2025

How to get started with SoundThread and CDP: wild free sound tools

Peter Kirn - August 27, 2025

VDMX6 can make you into a glitchy hologram, and other tracking tricks

Peter Kirn - August 1, 2025

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