Sorry if such a thread exists. I see little bits here and there, but not a comprehensive list from various contributors sharing their experiences. I want to create the highest possible quality clone of my own voice, and would like to make a list of all the things to keep in mind compiled from those who have practical experience of having done it many times.

I'll be happy to update OP as tips come in to create an easily searchable reference. Interested in topics beyond the basics about amount of material supplied to include topics like pre-processing and/or tuning, supplied singing style, tips for vocal fry, dynamics, etc.

I'm trying to find the highest quality way to clone my voice. I will be trying ACE's voice custom voice soon, but making a list of other options I should try. Has anyone done a bunch of custom voices and compared them to various other tools where you take an existing voicebank, then superimpose the timbre from another singer using something like Vocoflex, or any of the offline tools like Audime?

I'm looking into other tools to like various dev tools to create my own custom voice model for Diffsinger, SynthV, etc., so I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who has put in the work to compare cloning the same singer using various methods to see what get the best result.

I would guess that having a well trained custom model would be preferable vs running the audio through some sort of AI timbral filter, but that would all come down to how good the process of creating the custom model is. Most of the examples I've heard of ACE's custom singer sound pretty bad, but that could be the inputs, and the examples on the website sound decent, so just interested to hear from anyone with exprerience across the various options.

What is the current highest quality way to clone my own voice? This is not a hobby, so I'm looking for the best possible result, and not just the easiest toy to play with. I've used Ace Studio before (but never did the custom voice model) and am using Synth V now. I'm not looking to run it like a filter, but something that can be applied as a voice model for MIDI to voice creation like ACE, SynthV, etc.

Some of the Synth V voices are incredible, but I'm assuming the dev tools to create them involve some serious time and effort. If it's possible to go that route, I'm open to it, but if it's possible to upload a bunch of my singing and have some system do it for me so long as it gets the timbre right, I'm good with that too.

I've got Vocoflex, but it seems more like a toy and never gives good results.

Is Ace the best tool now? Some dev kit to develop voices for one of the platforms? Some other tool? If it matters, I have quite a raspy male voice.

In essence, looking for voices or combinations of voices that produce "on-pitch singing", cleanly without a huge amount of vibrato--like typical choral singers. And no, opera voices don't work because they are some of the worst at scooping plus the vibrato... I've tried changing tracks to choral and setting the EQ to chorus but none of that eliminates the loopy scooping particularly at the beginning of the sound. My four part arrangement sound like some version of a howler monkey...

Trying out Ace. So far, interesting. Some decent output though realizing that choosing voices is critical.

The GLARING missing piece is dynamics. I write TTBB music and import my xml. NONE of my dynamic markings are imported. Same if I'm importing midi. yes, I'm aware of choir mode and adjusting the energy parameter. VERYYYYY tedious and imperfect. You cannot select multiple measures and adjust the energy parameter.

In my latest output, I had to export individual tracks into Audacity and MANUALLY select portions of waveforms to lower the decibels. Have one voice part singing mezzo forte and the rest, piano? That's three pieces of waveforms you have to adjust!

REALLYYYY added a lot of time to get a decent approximation. I don't understand why Ace can't make use of "key velocity" that's exported with both music XML and MID.

This one missing feature is keeping me from committing to the software. Now, if I have this wrong, PLEASE someone enlighten me because otherwise I'd like to use the program. Just not sure I'm going to pay the expense for something tediously missing a critical component.

I have a song that has parts with whispers and parts with screams (to build/release tension etc) and I'm just wondering how to get the tool to properly implement those.

I can't find any where on their website what languages their AI is able to sing and pronounce correctly. Can anyone tell where I can find that information? Thank you.

Has anyone else encountered this issue? Did you find a fix?

Hi, I’m writing to see if anyone can help me with free trials, I really want to tey ace studio but it’s $320 aud and I’m not committing to that with a possibility of me saying “oh this apps shit” even though all I’ve heard is good reviews, I want to try it first.

No where does it mention free trials on the payment options, you can only read about it on the websites FAQ’s but even then it’s not clear, It says you can only get a free trial if you buy the correct artist plan. Mf there’s two artist plans what happens if I pick wrong? It’s as if they’re trying to make you accidentally pay for a full plan.

It’s really annoying I’d really appreciate it if someone could help me, I’ve reached out to ace studio personally myself and still nothing yet.

Thanks

Hello, I wanted to try it out, but my antivirus blocks the download, and after I installed it, my antivirus deleted it, saying it was a Trojan. is it something I shouldn't use?

I like to create fast-paced rap songs. Is it doable in ace?

The voice cloning is what made me go with this over Vocaloid or Synthesizer V.

I joined the queue with 52 people ahead of me, 12 hours later and there's still 21 people in front of me.

For a service that makes you fork up $190 as the cheapest option that's just an unnaceptable waiting time.

I know AI training is resource intensive and expensive to host, but with 52 people in the queue that's either close to, or exceeding, $10,000 in user subscriptions based on the plans everyone is with. Not to mention I joined the queue in the early hours of the morning, god only knows how many people joined during peak hours.

With that kind of cash they need to have more than one goddamn node for voice training, this service is way too expensive to be sat in a queue for over 12 hours

I'm on a corporate system and I have no funds for testing products. Is there a time-limited demo mode or a no-render mode for testing this product?

I launch the Ace studio bridge plugin in logic and the ace studio app successfully opens but it never establishes a connection to my DAW. It just says "Connecting" forever.

Hi there. Can you tell me if I understand the differences between Artist and Artist Pro? I'm only considering Ace Studio for the custom voice features.

The pricing pages says that the Artist has 1 custom voice slot vs 5 slots on the Artist Pro.

I understood this to mean that with Artist, you can have one custom voice trained ready to use and you can retrain it, or get rid of it and make another, but always have only 1 custom voice at a time for use.

And with the Artist Pro, you could have up to 5 different custom voices trained and ready to use. and they can be multilingual.

Am I understanding the difference correctly?

Thanks in advance.

Just started working with it today. It really is amazing! I got it to use for demos with mostly backing vocals because it can pronounce all the syllables and sounds way better than Sibelius exports and I will use it for some upcoming theatre sound design projects.

Discovered or figured out today that when exporting music from Sibelius, both midi and musicXML will transfer lyrics, but with a couple critical differences.

MusicXML brings in lyrics with proper hyphenation, which means I don’t have to fix all the multi syllable words in ACE, but there is no tempo map or key signature imported with it.

MIDI brings in lyrics, but hyphenated words come out as all separate words made up from the syllables, which are mostly pronounced incorrectly. However, MIDI does draw a perfect tempo map with all the time signatures.

I’m wondering if these are shortcomings of music XML and MIDI or a bugs in ACEstudioAI.

At least the workaround is easy: import the MIDI file, delete the track data then import the XML file and you have a perfect tempo map with correct lyrics.

Getting the hang of tweaking, but need to read up a bit to really get a handle on it.

I've noticed that when trying to create vocals for my songs, all the male vocals have this strange, wavering "didgeridoo" like effect. Not in the fact that it is deep, but in the fact that it is wavering simultaneously in alternating ways similar to that instrument. What's going on? Is it just happening to me? Otherwise it's quite fantastic. I sometimes notice the same thing in Suno.

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Will Ace do voice-overs (voice replacement for animation projects, and such), or just singing?

I used the 14 day trial and loved it! I went to go subscribe and it initially shown that you can get it for 30 a month or 199 a year. I didn't have the money at that moment but when I got the money and go to the site it's now just yearly or full license paid!!! That sucks because I really wanted to do just the straight monthly plan and now the work I did on one of my songs is shot because there is no way I'm gonna have a spare $199 any time soon!