#synthv_asterian

[superstellart]

Here's the artwork I created for ASTERIAN's Eclipsed design! The amazing concept art for this design was created by mimsynth on Twitter. Congratulations!

[r0nn1c]

asterian.... beloved by many.. ur so pretty bro like omgg

[eclipsedsounds]

More information on the Starry Court's conclusion coming soon. https://youtu.be/O-QV-o01_Nw / https://eclipsedsounds.com

[pincca]

Sunset🌅

🌘✨

Thank you once again to the Eclipsed Sounds team for the opportunity to work on the artwork for one of his demos!🌟

[shauncartoons]

Now that we're in October, I can post this cover of the 1913 song "At the Devil's Ball", one of two Halloween songs I've found by Irving Berlin.

[engvocaboost]

Wish You All The Best by Marvin Valentin & Aku P ft. ASTERIAN

"No one laughed, I was scared to fight and to defend me" 🎭🙇

[catboy-beb0p]

[astralfuchs]

OMGGGG NEW MALE VB by @eclipsedsounds

Plus an amazing Demo by NOSTRAIGHTANSWER?!?!

ily eclipsed sounds

[dead-byte]

I did it u guys

I finally bought

The Man™

#Synthv_Asterian #SynthV #Synthesizer_V #Asterian

[superstellart]

I painted a new illustration to celebrate ASTERIAN’s release! As a little holiday gift, you’re free to use this in your non-commercial projects. So long as you credit me, I’d love to see them!

[superstellart]

I created the key art for ASTERIAN! Eclipsed Sounds did a fantastic job with his concept, and Eric Hollaway’s incredible voice shines on Synthesizer V. You can listen to his demo here!

[eclipsedsounds]

A few questions I have about ASTERIAN! I'm looking forward to him! He looks and sounds amazing!

How difficult was it to choose his name and what was the reason for choosing it?

What can you tell us about his design concept and how it came to be today?

Are you able to speak on the choosing of Eric Hollaway as his voicer?

Thank you for your enthusiasm about ASTERIAN, and my apologies for our hiatus from this platform!

ASTERIAN's name choice was quite difficult - we changed it many times over development to try to find a sound that fit! I discussed it more in our response to a previous ask from our hiatus backlog.

As for his design - ASTERIAN went through a few concepts, but we settled on this look fairly quickly! The basic idea was the same as SOLARIA - to create a unique look that (ignoring the cape) has a more modern silhouette but blends in more fantasy aspects as well. While I can't share the early concept art as it was done as an internal paint-over from a non-stock photograph, I can describe the process a bit. His hairstyle was decided immediately to be twists as that is also the signature look of his voice provider, but we gave him long hair to push the design into fantasy a bit more and add another aspect that was the opposite of SOLARIA. We chose to keep the gold alongside his blue color scheme to show that our vocals are equals (rather than "downgrading" the rarity of metal), as well as to warm his overall color scheme to match his voice. A silver metal also washes out his color scheme and makes him far less interesting, so we settled on gold as our standard. Other design aspects we discussed were similar to the hair decision, choosing to do the opposite of what is done in SOLARIA's design. For instance, SOLARIA's metalwork lays on top of her design & is more decorative while ASTERIAN's functions more as the "bones" of his clothing, and the opposite is true of their armor pieces, with SOLARIA's appearing more functional in nature and ASTERIAN's being more decorative & jewelry adjacent.

I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for with regard to our voice selection process - but we knew that Eric Hollaway was perfect after the first time hearing him sing! We scouted across multiple different social media and casting platforms for ASTERIAN's voice, a process that we have continued for projects after him, and when we found Eric we were immediately charmed. We firmly believed that a bass vocal was necessary for this project, as one had not been created before as a commercial synthesized vocal to our knowledge. With the goal of creating voices to fill the gaps in available voices, it was clear that Eric would be the right choice. We are incredibly pleased with how well his unique tone carried into ASTERIAN! It may be interesting to note that SAROS was also in the scouting stages at the same time as ASTERIAN had been! Due to scheduling conflicts, SAROS' voice provider was not able to begin recording until the beginning of this year.

[eclipsedsounds]

will Asterian be getting lite version like Solaria did?

ASTERIAN will be getting a Lite version like SOLARIA did, after his original song contest is launched! While we had to delay this contest when our schedule was re-arranged to accommodate SAROS' development and other preparations for our appearance at the NAMM Show and continuing development afterwards, ASTERIAN's original song contest should be happening soon. We are hoping to minimize our overlap with the contest currently being run by our colleagues at AUDIOLOGIE, so please expect it to begin closer to the end of their contest.

[eclipsedsounds]

Hi! Will ASTERIAN be also available on the dreamtonics store like SOLARIA is?

My apologies for the long wait on this question during our platform hiatus! While we can't be for sure - we are hoping to arrange ASTERIAN's distribution on the Dreamtonics international store & Taobao store before the release of SAROS. Right now, they are quite busy working on the development of Synthesizer V Studio's 1.9.0 update, so we can't be sure on the timeframe.

[eclipsedsounds]

Oh hi! First, congratulations for the release of Asterian. He's heavenly! Second, I would like to ask you about something: where did you come up with the name "Asterian", considering that you are implying that the guy is themed around the moon yet the etymology has nothing to do about the moon. Could you clarify? Thank you!

Thank you for your support and interest in ASTERIAN! We themed ASTERIAN around the moon, but decided not to go with a more moon-themed name simply because all of the moon-related names we discussed just did not fit his voice right or were currently in use and trademarked by other synthesizers and VSTs. Additionally, many of them sounded "kitschy" or cheesy compared to our other vocals (SOLARIA and the in-development SAROS) whose names had already been decided. ASTERIAN's name was changed more during the concept phase than either of our other vocals!

For more on our choices for his name - "ASTERIAN" derives from "Asterion", which literally means "starry" in Greek but is also the name of a river god. We thought the atmosphere of the name was more important than its literal meaning, and the sound of it suits his warm tone perfectly.

[shauncartoons]

Vintage Song Covers: Are You Lonesome Tonight?

I didn't get a chance to make a fully new cover this week, but when I saw that SynthV's rap update was out of beta and that some of the voicebanks I had also had updates for it I figured I'd revisit this 1926 classic and test the rap feature out with the spoken recitation I had to cut out last time.