Chanterelle

What it does

• Lyrics in nine languages

  English uses a 134,000-word pronouncing dictionary plus spelling rules. German, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese work too, and you can edit phonemes per note.

• Describe a voice in words

  Type 'a smoky, tired jazz alto' and a network on your Mac designs the voice. It runs without network access.

• Blend singers or stack a choir

  Mix up to four singers with separate timbre and style weights, or morph to a second voice along an automation lane. The unison choir holds up to 16 singers.

• A piano roll for singing

  Type lyrics inline, draw pitch with a pen and set pitch anchors. Vibrato, consonant length and retake are set per note, next to 11 expression lanes.

• Play it live from MIDI

  Each key sings the next syllable of your lyric text, mono with legato or as chords. One singer uses about 0.5 % of one CPU core, sixteen about 5.6 %.

• Bring in a melody you already have

  Import MIDI, MusicXML or UFDATA with lyrics, or a sung or hummed recording in WAV, AIFF, FLAC or MP3. Export MIDI and UFDATA, or render WAV.