[LAU] midi to wav

[Steve Fosdick]

On 07/10/2008 23:27:07, Grammostola Rosea wrote:
> Joern Nettingsmeier wrote:
> > Grammostola Rosea wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've made and soprano score for my mum to practice voice.... (made
> >> by lilypond)
> >> What is the best way to convert it to wav (if it is possible with 
> >> soprano voice)..
> >
> > the best sounding solution is probably to put a mike in front of
> > your mum.
> >
> uh... definitely not! ;)
> No she needs it for practicing... so see gonna sing with the cd I 
> make

I have not had occasion to use any form of music synthesiser that is a 
realistic approximation of the human voice.

There is an addional complexity to the voice in that it usually has 
words to sing so for a synthesiser to sing it has to do the usual thing 
of interpreting MIDI to pick the right sample and make sure it plays at 
the right pitch and volume with the right envelope while at the same 
time doing the speech synthesiser thing of chosing the correct vowel 
formants and the right kinds of noise for the consonants.  Even then it 
would sound very artificial.

Given the intention of this being for practice I'd forget about using a 
realistic voice sound.  Many singers are quite used to being played 
their part on a piano so the tone of that would be familiar.  If you 
want a closer approximation and, in particularly something that lacks 
the attack of a piano and has more sustain, like the voice, one of the 
woodwind family would be good.

Regards,
Steve.