A Tokyo lab, betting on artist-first AI.
Dreamtonics shipped the original Synthesizer V in 2018 from Tokyo with a thesis that has aged extremely well: AI vocal models should be built on consented studio recordings, not scraped data. The bet was unfashionable at the time. By 2026, with copyright fights swirling around scrape-based generators, it looks like the only sustainable model in the room.
Every official voice — from Mai 2 and Saki in Japanese, to Etta and Danny in English, to Yi Wei and Yun Hua in Chinese — is recorded under commercial licensing with the original singer, with months of session work and feedback. The January 2026 Polyphonic AI Choir update came after two full years of recording actual choirs in-house. That's the cadence.
The honest trade-offs sit in plain sight. The learning curve is real — drawing notes and syllables takes more time than typing a prompt. The cost stacks: roughly $195 for Studio 2 Pro plus $99-$199 per voice database, and serious users own several. Synthesizer V is desktop-only, no mobile. And cross-lingual fluency, while industry-best, varies between voices.
If you want a song from a sentence, this isn't your tool. If you want full control of a vocal performance you can ship under copyright, in six languages, from a singer who consented to be there — this is the only studio in this lane.