On 07/10/2008 23:27:07, Grammostola Rosea wrote: 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.

Julien Claassen wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. You are talking about this? http://www.csounds.com/cook/csound/Soprano.orc how can I use it, I don't have any experience with Csound regards,

Julien Claassen wrote: this is what I got: $ csound -W -o output.wav -kyrie.mid Soprano.orc PortAudio real-time audio module for Csound PortMIDI real time MIDI plugin for Csound virtual_keyboard real time MIDI plugin for Csound 0dBFS level = 32768.0 Csound version 5.08 (double samples) Jul 31 2008 libsndfile-1.0.17 orchname: Soprano.orc scorename: /tmp/fileFZEfuW.sco rtmidi: PortMIDI module enabled rtaudio: PortAudio module enabled ... using blocking interface orch compiler: 102 lines read instr 1 error: illegal character =, line 100: out = aout*kenv ^ 1 syntax errors in orchestra. compilation invalid

Julien Claassen wrote: $ csound -W -o output3.wav --midifile=kyrie.mid Soprano.orc PortAudio real-time audio module for Csound PortMIDI real time MIDI plugin for Csound virtual_keyboard real time MIDI plugin for Csound 0dBFS level = 32768.0 Csound version 5.08 (double samples) Jul 31 2008 libsndfile-1.0.17 realtime performance using dummy numeric scorefile orchname: Soprano.orc scorename: /tmp/fileEV3JnN.sco rtmidi: PortMIDI module enabled rtaudio: PortAudio module enabled ... using blocking interface orch compiler: 102 lines read instr 1 error: illegal character =, line 100: out = aout*kenv ^ 1 syntax errors in orchestra. compilation invalid

Julien Claassen wrote: Nope, didn't work. Till now I used a soundfont and here you can listen to it ;) http://www.2shared.com/file/4057707/11bb2fdb/Credo_maat_97-113_.html Would be nice if I could try that Csound stuff too...

Woodwinds? Oboe, Cor Anglais, Basoon, Clarinet... In your General MIDI soundfont or whatever they're around 65-75 Somewhere. But if you go to hammersound.net and look in the category of woodwind you'll find ehtan's basoon and something like ws_oboe. the oboe has its drawbacks (looping is a bit rough). The sound-engine/softsynth to use with these is fluidsynth. Kindest regards Julien -------- Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== http://ltsb.sourceforge.net the Linux TextBased Studio guide ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= http://www.juliencoder.de

Julien Claassen wrote: Ok, is there a better website to share (music) files?

Just had a funny thought. Why don't you email the score to someone who has a good voice, and he/she can record it for you... :-) -- Christopher Stamper Email: christopherstamper(a)gmail.com Web: http://tinyurl.com/2ooncg gTalk: http://tinyurl.com/6e359r Skype: cdstamper

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Grammostola Rosea < rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Just donate me a nice mic + firewire interface... ;-) Seriously, I'm sure there's someone here that could do it. -- Christopher Stamper Email: christopherstamper(a)gmail.com Web: http://tinyurl.com/2ooncg gTalk: http://tinyurl.com/6e359r Skype: cdstamper

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Julien Claassen &lt;julien(a)c-lab.de&gt; wrote: Something wrong with Tenor??????!! It would suffice, ihmo... :-) -- Christopher Stamper Email: christopherstamper(a)gmail.com Web: http://tinyurl.com/2ooncg gTalk: http://tinyurl.com/6e359r Skype: cdstamper

Oh I guess, I should mind my tongue a bit more carefully at occasions. touche... Kindest regards Julien -------- Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== http://ltsb.sourceforge.net the Linux TextBased Studio guide ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= http://www.juliencoder.de

Of course I forgot. Shame on me. I'm sorry, have to be short, I have to record my soprano wife. :-) Kindest regards Julien -------- Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== http://ltsb.sourceforge.net the Linux TextBased Studio guide ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= http://www.juliencoder.de

On Friday 10 October 2008 05:38:56 Julien Claassen wrote: rimshot drew

Am Donnerstag, 9. Oktober 2008 schrieb Julien Claassen: Nothing a pair of bricks couldn't take care of. But wait, that is called a tenor, not a soprano. ;-) -- visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/ --- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a "rm -rf /". Or ask your administrator to do so...