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Open source plugins by Jonathan Mann

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Novox, a grey toy robot with blue ears and an antenna

Novox The Robot

Make Your Computer Sing

Type some lyrics, draw a melody, and a robot sings it back. Or sing into it, or drag in a vocal from your DAW, and it writes the notes and the words for you.

Download for Mac Source code
Version 1.0 beta · Apple Silicon Mac, macOS 13.3 or later · App, Audio Unit and VST3 · Free
Novox The Robot
The Novox The Robot editor: a row of singer portraits, a piano roll with lyric-labelled notes, and the lyrics written out on the right
Pick a singer, draw notes, write the words. Sixteen voices, from Robot to Soprano to Crooner.

What it does

  • Sings any lyrics on any melody you draw or play.
  • Turns singing (a recording, a take into your mic, or a region dragged from Logic) into notes and lyrics.
  • Works on its own as an app, or as an instrument in Logic Pro, GarageBand, Ableton Live, Reaper and other AU or VST3 hosts.
  • Exports WAV and MIDI.

Installing

  1. Download and open Novox-The-Robot-macOS.pkg.
  2. Click through the installer. It puts the app in Applications and the plugins in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins.
  3. In Logic, make a Software Instrument track and choose AU Instruments › Song A Day › Novox The Robot. Elsewhere, look for it among your VST3 instruments.

If macOS says it can't check the installer, open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway.

The first time you turn singing into notes, Novox asks to download its lyrics model (574 MB).

Open source

Novox The Robot is free software under the GNU AGPLv3. Its singing engine is MIT licensed. Read the code, report a bug, or build it yourself on GitHub.