my website: Hendrix Chord, Robert Johnson

There a short excerpt from my "Hendrix Chord" piece,
which resulted from a discussion in this forum, and
program notes to it, on my website. You'll also find
the first, rudimentary, version of my microtonal analysis
of a Robert Johnson tune - no graphs or musical example
yet - and not even all the correct pitches yet :(
Stay tuned for a corrected version soon.

http://onramp.uscom.com/~monz/index.html


I'll be in California in a couple of (well, more like
a few) days, for those of you waiting....

- Monzo
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>For all you PowerMac users ,here's something you may not know about :
>VocalWriter 1.0 ,software synth that sings (multitimbral & polyphonic)!
>and writes AIFF files. Includes a GM synth.

Along kinda-sorta similar lines, there is also the "Voder" for Ensoniq
ASR-10, and I think EPS 16+. It injects vocal formants into any sound you
synthesize on that instrument. It's kind of like an electronic version of
the ol' "voice box" for electric guitar (ala Joe Walsh et.al.).

Drew Skyfyre wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> For all you PowerMac users ,here's something you may not know about :
> VocalWriter 1.0 ,software synth that sings (multitimbral & polyphonic)!
> and writes
> AIFF files. Includes a GM synth.
>
> >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.
>
> A 15 day trial fully functioning demo is available for download
> (4MB compressed file). $100 to register.
> Go to
>
> Cheers,
> Drew

yes, it uses the Macintosh Speech engine. So if you want your piece to
sound like HAL then it works great, if you want your piece to sound like a
human its not so great. It is fun to mess with though....

I have been working with a major DSP company on a "singing"
computer(classical voice--male(tenor)--female(sop.)). The results, still
need work, but sound surprisingly human. I will post a web page soon if
anybody is interested...

Michael

> yes, it uses the Macintosh Speech engine. So if you want your piece to
>sound like HAL then it works great, if you want your piece to sound like a
>human its not so great. It is fun to mess with though....

Just a reminder: the voice of Hal in 2001 was that of a professional actor
(Claude Rains was it?). It would be great to have my Mac sing like that.
(Computer music trivia: why was "Daisy" the first song Hal was taught to
sing?)

Bill

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I should have said it will sound like a robot... sorry...


Michael

On
Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Bill Alves wrote:

>
> > yes, it uses the Macintosh Speech engine. So if you want your piece to
> >sound like HAL then it works great, if you want your piece to sound like a
> >human its not so great. It is fun to mess with though....
>
> Just a reminder: the voice of Hal in 2001 was that of a professional actor
> (Claude Rains was it?). It would be great to have my Mac sing like that.
> (Computer music trivia: why was "Daisy" the first song Hal was taught to
> sing?)
>
> Bill
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ^ Bill Alves email: alves@hmc.edu ^
> ^ Harvey Mudd College URL: http://www2.hmc.edu/~alves/ ^
> ^ 301 E. Twelfth St. (909)607-4170 (office) ^
> ^ Claremont CA 91711 USA (909)607-7600 (fax) ^
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>