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[motm] I'm a female pop vocalist - mp3

2005-02-18 by elhardt@att.net

A while back there was some talk about Vocalaid here. Here is a possible better alternative.

If you can't sing, can't do vocal vibrato, can't change your gender, don't want to spend tedious hours trying get Vocalaid to turn out a few semi-acceptable seconds of output, and want to do it in real-time by talking into a mic while controlling the pitch from a keyboard, I decided to see how one of TC Helicon's latest devices would do at the job since no such demo exists on their website to demonstrate all of the above and without being camoflauged behind a real singer's voice.

I was too lazy to create volume envelopes for the tracks so excuse the wide dynamic range, especially of the climactic portion. And since the melody dips down kind of low a couple of times after that, it starts to sound a bit gender indeterminant. Perhaps I'll fix it later. But I wanted to see if the quality of their latest products could do lead vocals, not just background harmonies and doubling. It sounds pretty good. An MOTM 440 filter and pedal interface were used to manipulate the Supernova synth sound (just to keep it more on topic).

filesize: 1.4 MB

http://home.att.net/~elhardt2/Elhardt_As_Female.mp3

-Elhardt

Re: [motm] I'm a female pop vocalist - mp3

2005-02-18 by JH.

Impressive and funny at the same time.

JH.

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> A while back there was some talk about Vocalaid here. Here is a possible
better alternative.
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> If you can't sing, can't do vocal vibrato, can't change your gender, don't
want to spend tedious hours trying get Vocalaid to turn out a few
semi-acceptable seconds of output, and want to do it in real-time by talking
into a mic while controlling the pitch from a keyboard, I decided to see how
one of TC Helicon's latest devices would do at the job since no such demo
exists on their website to demonstrate all of the above and without being
camoflauged behind a real singer's voice.
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> I was too lazy to create volume envelopes for the tracks so excuse the
wide dynamic range, especially of the climactic portion. And since the
melody dips down kind of low a couple of times after that, it starts to
sound a bit gender indeterminant. Perhaps I'll fix it later. But I wanted
to see if the quality of their latest products could do lead vocals, not
just background harmonies and doubling. It sounds pretty good. An MOTM 440
filter and pedal interface were used to manipulate the Supernova synth sound
(just to keep it more on topic).
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> filesize: 1.4 MB
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> http://home.att.net/~elhardt2/Elhardt_As_Female.mp3
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> -Elhardt
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Re: [motm] I'm a female pop vocalist - mp3

2005-05-15 by elhardt@att.net

Tom Farrand writes:

>>Is this the VoicePro in action? I must say that is rather impressive. How much time was expended in creating that piece? I am in awe.<<

It's the TC Helicon Quintet. They claim it uses slightly better algorithms than their older VoicePro. It does four voices of polyphony, though I used it monophonically. They can be picked up for $400 or less. I play it like a vocoder, where I play the melody on the keyboard while talking or singing into a mic. It does flawless, glitchfree pitchshifting that way, and since I can't sing worth crap, but can play just fine, it works out great. I originally bought it do to big classical choir type stuff, but it sounds so good even for close up solo voices I threw the demo together to hear it in context. It only took about 4 hours or so to do the demo. I just layed down some keyboard parts first, then a drum part by playing the buttons on my R8 in realtime, then put the vocals on last.

JH writes:

>>Impressive and funny at the same time.<<

Sometimes I even amuse myself with stuff like this. But if you didn't know it was a man and a pitchshifting device, then hopefully it would sound serious instead.

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>>Actually, that's as good as many pop singers I've heard lately, but I bet you don't look as good as Brittney in a bathtub, and that is, after all, how we define talent nowdays.<<

I'll just get some model to pose for my album cover but I'll do the singing myself. That should satisfy the looks over substance problem.

-Elhardt