Vocal styles and deliveries on Club Ready Music

Club Ready Music's Voice options panel gives you six groups of vocal direction: character, delivery, how much vocal, accent, tone and effects. Each becomes part of a single sentence that is sent to the music model with your brief, so the choices work together rather than as separate switches.

Character (up to three)

Smooth, raspy, breathy, powerful or belting, airy or whisper, deep, high or falsetto, soulful, gritty, sweet or pop. Pick up to three. They are combined into a description such as "raspy, soulful female lead vocal". Choose characters that agree with each other; "airy" with "powerful" pulls in two directions.

Delivery (one)

• Sung, the default: the lyrics are performed as written.
• Rap: rapped verses with a sung hook.
• Spoken word: spoken over the beat.
• Chant / crowd shout: a chanted, crowd-shout style hook. Ideal for festival briefs.
• Call & response: call-and-response phrasing, often with a second voice answering.
• Harmonies / choir: stacked harmonies and choir-style backing.

How much vocal (one)

• Full lead: vocals through verses and chorus.
• Hook only: vocals only on the hook with long instrumental stretches between. The DJ-tool setting.
• Sparse chops: short chopped phrases used as texture rather than a lead.

Accent (one)

Neutral, American, British, Caribbean, Spanish-tinged, French-tinged. Most reliable on English lyrics. The language menu in the main panel sets the actual language.

Tone

Young or mature. Shifts the perceived age of the voice.

Effects

• Ad-libs around the drops: vocal hits and ad-libs placed near the drops.
• Auto-tune effect: a tight pitch-corrected sound on the voice.

Gender and cloned voices

Female and Male on the main panel set the lead. A cloned voice, if selected, replaces that and the direction reads "lead vocal in the provided cloned voice" followed by your other choices.

How the sentence is built

A typical result reads: "Vocals: smooth, soulful mature male lead vocal, rapped verses with a sung hook, full lead vocal through verses and chorus, British accent, ad-libs and vocal hits around the drops, clear and upfront in the mix." The final clause is always added so the vocal sits forward in the mix.

Combining with lyrics

Delivery and lyric formatting reinforce each other. Chant works best with short repeated hook lines. Rap works with longer, denser verses and a simple sung chorus. Hook only expects the chorus to carry the whole vocal, so make it count. The badge next to the Voice options button summarises your current choices so you can see them at a glance.

Instrumentals

In Instrumental mode the voice panel is ignored and the prompt says "Instrumental, no vocals".