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Subject: [motm] Vocal formants and the 410

From: elhardt@...
Date: 2002-11-26

Mike Marsh writes:
>>Someone somewhere asked what the settings on a 410 would be to do vocal
formants. My first thought was, well you can't because there is not enough
resonance to get good formants. Then I thought, wait a minute, how about
feeding the output back to the input with a mult? Has anyone tried this? I
will when I get home, but I was wondering if someone has already done this.
What was the outcome?<<

It looks like Juskiw says it works great, but I've tried it some time back
without another filter in the feedback loop and I would say it doesn't work
very well. I got just a tiny little more resonance, but nothing worth
mentioning.

Scott Juskiw writes:
>>Check out my demos on the synthtech demo and 410 pages (gargoyles, vocals, 3
zombie tenors):<<

There are some interesting sounds there and one can hear the essence of male
voices in a couple of them. But synth choir sounds still aren't as distinct and
clear as those from a Mellotron for example. It's been a while since I've tried
some vocal stuff, but I'm thinking steeper cutoff slopes on the filters might
also help. There are also some other techniques I'm going try in the future
that will help get rid of the easily recognizable, overly even harmonic levels,
so as to help hide the fact it was done on an electronic instrument.

-Elhardt