Emvoice One Lucy: The Lead Vocalist Of Your Next Song
With AI becoming more and more involved in music production… I wanted to share one of my favorite AI vocal synthesizers, Emvoice One. The most dynamic part of any song is the human voice, so why not use tools that easily allow you to add vocals into your music?
Emvoice allows you to type in words with a corresponding note to build out a vocal melody using synthesis. Once you have the lyrics and melody you want, you can tweak the pitch to add falsetto and variation to help make it sound more realistic. There are currently four different voices you can use including Jay, Thomas, Lucy (my personal favorite) and the newest addition, Keela
Each of the four voices serve a different purpose. For example, Lucy…
Emvoice One: Lucy
Emvoice One Lucy is the voice I have the most experience with and is the subject to most of my testing with the plugin. Lucy is the traditional female vocalist, suitable for most scenarios. If you need a backing melody for a LoFi beat, leading vocals for a pop song, or even just stabs or riffs for a trap beat… Lucy can come in handy when making your next track.
In my test, illustrated below, I created a few different melodies using Lucy in hip hop beats. I think the most effective way to make vocal samples is to create them in bulk. Import any beat you feel will give you the most inspiration and start making your sample. I feel this is the most effective way to use EmVoice One, because having to create a new vocal sample, for every beat you make, may slow down your process. When so much creativity and effort goes into making the instrumental, I find it much easier to add a sample I made previously, then to create a new one from scratch.
I’m no song writer but my time with the Lucy voice has been overwhelmingly positive. Coming up with new melodies and creating a story with lyrics has really proved to step up my production. If you take the time to play with the pitch and add variation, you can come up with some pretty creative results.
Recommended vocal range of E2 to A4
Emvoice Lucy Video Review
Emvoice One: Keela
Keela is “The new kid on the block” for Emvoice. It is the latest voice to be released for the young plugin and might just be the most powerful of the bunch. In most other cases, I feel the higher registry is where the other voices sound the most, synthetic, but this is really where Keela shines for me. If I had to put this voice into a category, it would definitely be more of a confident chorus vocalist. This makes Keela perfect for genres like trap, pop, and different edm sub-genres.
Also once you found the lyrics and melody you want, there are a couple more ways to customize your vocals. Highlighting a word gives you the ability to change the pronunciation of that word. Not all words can be changed, but it never hurts to check! After that you can also change the preset of the voice itself. Each vocalist has a few different options to change their voice.
In this introduction video from the official Emvoice YouTube Channel, we can see a well thought out and mixed demonstration for the new addition.
Recommended vocal range D2 to G4
Keela Introduction
Emvoice One: Thomas
Now Thomas is the voice that stands out the most to me compared to all of the other options. This is the classic vocoder sound used in many hit songs of the 1980’s. With Emvoice One Thomas, you can emulate a similar sound to Kanye’s 808’s and Heartbreak Album (2008), Beastie Boys Intergalactic (1998) or a wide variety of songs from Daft Punk.
Really experiment with this one, as it is by far the most unique of the voices. Don’t think you only have to use it in a Kanye type beat, or an 80’s acid trip. With more and more of music production being created synthetically, the “computerized” sound can fit in most modern music and even some throwback songs.
Recommended vocal range: C0 to C5
Thomas Demonstration
Emvoice One: Jay
The fourth and final voice in the lineup is Jay. This traditional male vocalist, similarly to Lucy, is suitable for most scenarios. In fact, that makes Jay and Lucy a very good pair to put in a song. You could have Jay on the verse and then Lucy for the hook or have them switch off during the same part of a song like a duet. Combining these two really pushes the realism aspect, as if two artists come together for a collab. In fact that could work with any combination of voices…
That’s what really makes Emvoice One so versatile. You’re not stuck to just one sound. If you have access to all four vocalists, you can create depth and variety by bringing in different combinations. You can also potentially create a monster collab between Jay, Lucy, Thomas and Keela. So be sure to experiment and find what works best for you!
Recommended Vocal Range: E1 to C4
Jay Demonstration
Final Thoughts
I don’t really have a Pros and Cons list for this plugin, as nothing overwhelmingly stands out to me on the negative side. Emvoice One is a great creative tool and can be used in so many different ways. From creating a simple 4 bar vocal loop to a full fledged song, there is no wrong way to use it. What I will say is, there is still much to be improved upon with Emvoice. I don’t really think you’ll 100% fool people, that this is a real person singing… but I don’t think that’s the goal, the creators of Emvoice had in mind. In fact, when I asked them if they had anything they wanted people to know about the plugin, they had this to say…
“There is a lot of online discourse going on at the moment about AI and/or AI-aligned technologies and how they'll affect art and the creative process in the coming years. My inspiration comes from imagining what projects would have come to life if I had something like Emvoice in my DAW ten years ago. The main reason I think this could be valuable is because we do not want to replace artists AT ALL (or do anything remotely like this), we want to act as a tool for artists to create more easily than ever before”
If you’ve been keeping up to date with my YouTube channel, Simulation Beats, this quote directly falls in line with what I’ve been saying about AI. If we switch our perspective, we will see how much, using AI as a tool will actually aid us in our production.
As for Emvoice One, each voice has its individual price, in case you don’t want to buy all four. Not only that, the plugin is free to download and has demos to all the voices so you can test them out first to make sure you get the right ones. With all that said and done, thank you guys so very much for reading I really do appreciate it and I’ll see you in the next one… Peace.
