#synthv_saros

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Promotional artwork I created for Eclipsed Sounds' SAROS!

[eclipsedsounds]

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

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Horros by tira ft. SAROS & Bianca Arpasing

"Your veins alone are blessed with aqua regia…"

[superstellart]

Here’s the key artwork I painted for Synthesizer V SAROS, check out ODDEEO’s demo of their amazing voice!

[eclipsedsounds]

Thank you for your patience. A return to SAROS' demo schedule is coming very soon.

https://www.eclipsedsounds.com/saros

[superstellart]

I made a vocal synth music video! I learnt so many things, I hope you enjoy it!

[eclipsedsounds]

I was reading about Saros license and I saw that "if the Lite version is being used, the SVD must be attributed as “SAROS Lite”. does this mean that there's going to be a lite version for others?

Thank you for your question! We intend for SAROS to have a Lite version just like ASTERIAN and SOLARIA do, and we will likely release it later next year (2024) after the completion of our next project.

[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.