source file: m1449.txt Date: Wed, 17 Jun 98 02:53:44 +0000 Subject: Vocal Synth,Synth tuning things,... From: Drew Skyfyre Gonna be one Digest/day late with my $0.02. BTW, whopper of a Digest, we're cooking now ;-) Graham Breed wrote : >> Ensoniqs do 0.4 [cents] > >Do they? Have you tested the accuracy, or is this merely the precision >of the tuning table? Just the stated specs, "256 steps per semitone resolution". Michael A. Thompson wrote : > yes, it uses the Macintosh Speech engine. etc. Ooh dear, Mac Speech Engine ,huh ? Wonder what they mean by this : >> >With the recent development of its breakthrough acoustic modeling >> > technology called Resonant Articulatory Synthesis (RAS), KAE Labs >> > offers the first musical instrument that can model the human vocal >> > tract in singing unrestricted English lyrics. Do you mean it spits out voices similar to the Speech ones that are in System 8 ( Victoria,Fred,etc) ? >I have been working with a major DSP company on a "singing" >computer(classical voice--male(tenor)--female(sop.)). It needs more work >but sounds surprisingly human. I will post a web page soon if anybody is >interested... Oh,yes PLEASE.Soon,soon. I'm more interested in this type of thing as a compositional tool,rather than for putting on a CD.Although ,I'd like to use humanly impossible vocal timbres and ranges using synthesis. And,I'm for quick fixes where possible.I don't have the patience,time,or inclination to spend a week programing FOF filter thingies in Csound (or anything else) for 5 minutes of "vocal sounds". I want to write music and have real-time interaction with whatever device is making the sounds. Actually ,software synths and I don't get along very well in general. Gary Morrison wrote : >>Wouldn't it be preferable for any synth that incorporates decent >>microtuning to >>not be sample based ,but rather generate its sounds using an actual >>synthesis technique, >>like Physical Modelling,FM,etc. ? > > Because ...? I said that because of the impossibility (but,maybe some sophisticated DSP system,maybe like that in Digital Performer can make it possible) of tuning any individual sample at a given pitch through the entire MIDI 128 note range and still have a useable sound. I could be wrong or missing something here. -Drew "I think the bees *suspect* something." - Winnie-the-Pooh