But the judges, along with host Rocsi Diaz and in-person audiences, watch the performances on eye-level monitors placed strategically around the room - so as to appear as if they’re looking centerstage. In typical music-TV fashion, the winner will get a cash prize ($100,000), as well as mentorship opportunities from celebrity judges: willi.i.am, Grimes, Alanis Morissette, and Nick Lachey. On Alter Ego, which premieres this Wednesday night (September 22nd), the contestants don’t perform on stage, but rather behind a curtain whilst donning motion-capturing suits that control their own highly fantastical, augmented-reality avatars. I was skeptical, a few weeks ago, as I approached the doors to a taping of Alter Ego, Fox’s new singing competition with a high-tech twist, but it felt the same as entering any old sound stage - at least for the first minute or so. Graphics by Anded based on a design by Mike Leon.Human pop stars? That’s so pre-pandemic. Programming by Karoryfer Lecolds and Tyler Koziol. Here's a short in-character song featuring both growls and clean vocals, and very orcish lyrics! There are many more tracks on various sites out there, of course. This walkthrough explains her general functionality. More than 50 presets are included ranging from conventional singing to dubstep basses. Japanese is also supported, but will have an accent. All the growl and space voice recordings were of English phonetics, while the clean and talker voices add a few extra phonemes for Latin. Her voice bank contains four voices: clean singing voice, talker, growl (noisy unpitched vocal) and space (capable of producing a discernible pitch, just plain weird). She can be used as a virtual vocalist who can both sing and growl, a source of monster voices and sound effects for game and film audio, and a synthesizer which generates strange textures. If you are wondering how to use Alter/Ego, we've collected some tutorial videos on another page. Alter/Ego can be downloaded from Plogue's website and the direct link to download the Marie Ork voice bank is here. The original version was an entry in the 2016 KVR Developer Challenge. She was created from recordings of a female death metal vocalist, but is capable of much more than just death metal growls. Marie Ork is a voice bank for the free Plogue Alter/Ego synthesizer.
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