MOTM

One other thought. Somebody made the point a few days ago about MOTM not
being just another VCO/VCF/EG/VCA purveyor. This is one of those modules
that puts some spice into your system. It's kind of a "two trick pony". Use
it with the LFOs sweeping and swirling the sound around for the Jarre
effect. For this use, it's more akin to an effect like a phasor that you'd
apply to an overall sound, and even works with polyphonic patches. Or, turn
the LFOs off, and you have a poor man's formant filter. Tune the filters at
high resonance to get vowel like sounds. The reason I say "poor man's" is
because at some point I think Paul should design a purpose-built formant
filter, which would have independant voltage control to each filter. Then
you'll be able to sequence different vowel sounds!

Dave Bradley
Principal Software Engineer
Engineering Animation, Inc.
daveb@...

Actually, a "proper" formant filter has such hig Q and needs to be tuned
+-2Hz, that VC control
is not what you need.

Rather, you need individual MUTE/UNMUTE inputs for each formant (simple
gating)

Paul S.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Bradley <daveb@...>
To: motm@onelist.com <motm@onelist.com>
Date: Friday, March 12, 1999 8:28 AM
Subject: [motm] Re: Triple Filter: who needs it?!?!? more blather

>From: "Dave Bradley" <daveb@...>
>
>One other thought. Somebody made the point a few days ago about MOTM not
>being just another VCO/VCF/EG/VCA purveyor. This is one of those modules
>that puts some spice into your system. It's kind of a "two trick pony". Use
>it with the LFOs sweeping and swirling the sound around for the Jarre
>effect. For this use, it's more akin to an effect like a phasor that you'd
>apply to an overall sound, and even works with polyphonic patches. Or, turn
>the LFOs off, and you have a poor man's formant filter. Tune the filters at
>high resonance to get vowel like sounds. The reason I say "poor man's" is
>because at some point I think Paul should design a purpose-built formant
>filter, which would have independant voltage control to each filter. Then
>you'll be able to sequence different vowel sounds!
>
>Dave Bradley
>Principal Software Engineer
>Engineering Animation, Inc.
>daveb@...
>
>
>
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So, the formants are fixed? If that's the case, how many bands do you need
to duplicate all the vowel sounds a human can make? And how can you
synthesize the smooth transition from one formant to another that a human
would make if they say "A-E-I-O-U"?

Dave Bradley
Principal Software Engineer
Engineering Animation, Inc.
daveb@...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Schreiber [mailto:synth1@...]
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 1999 8:51 AM
> To: motm@onelist.com
> Subject: [motm] Re: Triple Filter: who needs it?!?!? more blather
>
>
> From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...>
>
> Actually, a "proper" formant filter has such hig Q and needs to be tuned
> +-2Hz, that VC control
> is not what you need.
>
> Rather, you need individual MUTE/UNMUTE inputs for each formant (simple
> gating)
>
> Paul S.
>

I'll have to dig up all my poop from 15 years ago!

I think it's like 18 bands.

Paul S.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Bradley <daveb@...>
To: motm@onelist.com <motm@onelist.com>
Date: Friday, March 12, 1999 2:21 PM
Subject: [motm] Re: Triple Filter: who needs it?!?!? more blather

>From: "Dave Bradley" <daveb@...>
>
>So, the formants are fixed? If that's the case, how many bands do you need
>to duplicate all the vowel sounds a human can make? And how can you
>synthesize the smooth transition from one formant to another that a human
>would make if they say "A-E-I-O-U"?
>
>Dave Bradley
>Principal Software Engineer
>Engineering Animation, Inc.
>daveb@...
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Paul Schreiber [mailto:synth1@...]
>> Sent: Friday, March 12, 1999 8:51 AM
>> To: motm@onelist.com
>> Subject: [motm] Re: Triple Filter: who needs it?!?!? more blather
>>
>>
>> From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...>
>>
>> Actually, a "proper" formant filter has such hig Q and needs to be tuned
>> +-2Hz, that VC control
>> is not what you need.
>>
>> Rather, you need individual MUTE/UNMUTE inputs for each formant (simple
>> gating)
>>
>> Paul S.
>>
>
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