[LAU] Synthesized voices [was :Re: [LAD] Kontakt sampler format (and others like EXS24)]

[Lorenzo Sutton]

On 02/09/12 22:46, SxDx wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Patrick Shirkey" <pshirkey at boosthardware.com>
>> To: linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org
>> Sent: Saturday, September 1, 2012 11:25:26 PM
>> Subject: [LAU] Synthesized voices [was :Re: [LAD] Kontakt sampler format (and others like EXS24)]
>>
>>
>> On Sun, September 2, 2012 6:18 am, SxDx wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>
>>>> The East West Choirs sing your lyrics. It's not another Ahhhh or
>>>> Ohhhh
>>>> sample ;).
>>>>
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI5Gg2-mhmU
>>> any technical info on that? free software doing the same, research
>>> papers
>>> (easily available), anything?
I think you only need the resources/time/skill to sample all the 
phonemes for various choir combinations, add glue and logic, the 
interface, some usual ADSR stuff and filtering, reverb here and there, a 
pinch of randomness, and your done :)

Another way could be to have 4 singers sing the lines various times 
recording them multi-trak, each take with different miking positions and 
EQing (or keeping the mike still in the room and having them move around 
each time). If the singers were good enough they'd be able to change 
their voice quality slightly at each take to mimic multiple people. Of 
course you need 4 singers if you wanted a full SATB choir, probably just 
a good baritone and dark soprano would suffice to have a mixed choir 
effect for a monophonic or 2-voice line.

Lorenzo.