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From:
Aaron D Meyers
To:
John Counts ,
Date:
Tue, 11 Dec 2001 02:10:31 -0500
Subject:
Re: [idm] Computer Singing (was Cylob- Cut The Midrange, Drop The Bass)
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Yea. I think it just has to be laborious and futile. I'm pretty sure its done by pitch shifting in a wave editing program. Perhaps if you were savvy at such things you could write some program that would let you use midi to control the pitch shifting, thus letting you use a sequencer for the melodies. However, I'd guess its done manually judging by the precision I hear in that song. Moving on from the technical crap, I want to say that I think the new Cylob single is fucking hilarious. And I love the cover of "What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor?". Like... I know I'm getting really nerdy here, but I like the fact that Cylob doesn't phonetically spell out "early" resulting in macspeak fred earnestly mispronouncing the word! Yes. I am a dork. But since we're dorking it up together, can we have a favorite songs with computer vocals thread? There is a special place in my heart for songs with computer singing. So I'll go first. Oh... and vocoded vocals don't count. Hrvatski's track on the Kid 606 & Friends comp. Vatstep Catstep something or other. Its the first song. You know what I'm talking about. And it probably has the most laboriously programmed computer vocals I've ever heard. Add N to X - Hit for Cheese A veritable potpouri of the macintosh voices talking about sniffing your glue and catching your disease? Try and say no. someone else's turn! -Aaron ----- Original Message ----- From: John Counts <polycyclicism@yahoo.com> Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 0:54 am Subject: [idm] Cylob- Cut The Midrange, Drop The Bass
quoted 29 lines Just listening to Cylob's ace new track. Hearing the> Just listening to Cylob's ace new track. Hearing the > speech emulator has kicked a nostalgia for all the > early 90s hardcore for me (Wishdokta, Zero B, Utah > Saints, etc.)- especially, "I'll take your brain to > another dimension." Just sick! I have a quetsion > though. It seems pretty clear that he is using the Mac > voices from SimpleText but how are the melodies being > made? I know that you can alter factors like word rate > and pitch but Chris is using it to play chords and > melodies synched to the tempo. Does anybody have any > technical suggestions as to how this is going on? It > seems as though he is treating it like a vocoder. Any > thoughts on this would be welcomed because, when I use > computer vocals on tracks, it is so laborious as to be > futile. > John > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of > your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com > or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org > >
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