[sdiy] Vocal Filter can Actually Sing

[Paul Perry]

>Dominic Tarr wrote:
>> a while ago my superviser (here at the university computer science
department where I'm working for the >summer) showed me a "voice
synthisizer" thing he had part in designing/building back in the 70s, it
basically >conisited of a joystick controlling some formant filters, and
slider controling oscilator pitch, touch >switches to trigger the oscilator
on, and some more touch switches to trigger white noise for 't's and 's's
>and so on...

Something exactly like this was in the UK magazine Wireless World (as it was
then) around that
time. Curiously, it wasn't designed for people who couldn't speak, it was
for children who had 
some psychological problem and wouldn't talk directly, it was intended as a
kind of icebreaker.

paul perry (frostwave analog fx) melbourne australia