Dreamtonics' Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro puts artists back in control amid rising concerns over generative AI abuse.
Tools that do it all for you have largely dominated much of the conversation around AI in music – describe a song, press a button, and you get a result. Of course, for musicians who work hard in an industry that doesn’t always give back, it’s difficult to reckon with. Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro, developed by Tokyo-based music technology company Dreamtonics, operates on a different premise entirely.
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Rather than generating a finished vocal from a prompt, Synthesizer V gives the artist a voice to perform with. Melody, lyrics, phrasing, pronunciation and expression are all shaped by the user, note by note, inside a production environment.
With tools like Suno and Udio on the market, it’s an important distinction. These softwares have made it possible to generate complete songs in seconds, but that speed comes with a set of unresolved questions – about authorship, voice ownership and what happens to creative accountability when the process is a black box. These problems go beyond philosophy and towards ethical concerns. Unauthorised voice cloning, AI artists with no clear origin and musicians finding AI-generated versions of their work-in-progress songs already posted and profiting online are all part of the current landscape. The issue is no longer just technical capability but creative control.
Synthesizer V’s approach is transparent by design. The user makes every decision, and the output traces directly back to them. In a space where attribution is increasingly unclear, that kind of accountability is becoming genuinely valuable.
All voices available in Synthesizer V are officially licensed from real singers, which gives producers a clear answer to questions of origin and copyright. This can’t be said for a growing number of tools currently available.
Dreamtonics CEO Kanru Hua noted that in testing, vocals generated by Synthesizer V received the same naturalness ratings as real human voices. “While J-Pop artists have used voice synthesis tools like this for years, Western adoption is beginning to follow, driven by a wider culture of experimentation. With Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro, we want to introduce more musicians to a creative workflow that inspires experimentation while keeping artists at the center of the process.”
Artists including Paul Hartnoll of Orbital and Jordan Rudess have already explored vocal synthesis as part of their production process, and Dreamtonics sees broader Western adoption beginning to follow the trajectory established in J-Pop, where tools like this have been part of the standard toolkit for years.
The tool supports English, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese and Korean, with cross-lingual functionality that allows an English-speaking songwriter to produce a vocal in Korean or Spanish with accurate pronunciation. It sits inside a DAW the same way any other instrument would, with support for MIDI input, VST/AU/AAX plugin formats, ARA integration and real-time parameter controls. In practice, the use cases span a wide range – vocal sketching and demo production, film scoring, game audio, animation, virtual performer work and content creation. Producers can sketch vocal ideas before a session. Songwriters can build full demos without needing a vocalist on standby. Electronic artists can design entirely new vocal textures.
A 14-day free trial of Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro is available here, alongside 7-day trials for individual voices. For more information on the full feature set, visit the Synthesizer V, or head straight to Dreamtonics to purchase.
