Vocal Synth,Synth tuning things,...

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

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