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

Lorenzo Sutton lorenzofsutton at gmail.com
Mon Sep 3 08:26:10 UTC 2012


On 03/09/12 10:13, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 09:58 +0200, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
>> 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.
> Don't explain it to me or this community, explain this to all the
> companies, that are not interested to take care about Linux.
Was just trying to give a slightly different point of view :)
>   "East West
> Choirs" is one of many products users want to have and that are not
> available for Linux. I'm not talking about my needs. And please imagine
> users that need such software, e.g. for making the music for a
> commercial. If a musician gets less money, the musician can't spent time
> and resources. Btw. I would like to have such a choir, but I don't need
> it. I never used it. I don't have Windows installed and I don't own a
> Mac. Patrick's wish is to make companies aware about the capabilities of
> Linux. Unfortunately Linux does not have the abilities many users wish
> to have.

By the way there are many many reports on-line of people frustrated for 
the hours spent to get the iLok stuff working for these applications, 
contacting bad customer support etc., probably just as much time as 
Linux users spend hacking their systems :)

> I'm not speaking against Linux and I'm not looking for solutions how to
> e.g. replace a replacement for singers by singers.
>
> I hope now it's clear what I tried to say and I don't need to add
> another mail regarding to this topic.
It's clear for me, and the email wasn't personally addressed to you. I 
was using your response to add another point of discussion ;)L

Lorenzo.


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