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Subject: Vowel Filters
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Message 2/6 15-Mar-00 @ 01:24 PM - RE: Vowel Filters
I'm not sure if this is possible but it would be exactly the kind of of thing I'd love to see under the Special button in the filters section.
In the meantime I've got some "vaguely vowelly" (?) sounds from the Nova by using the band pass filter on harmonically rich sounds (a bit of ring-modulator and distortion always helps!) and modulating small amounts of freqency/resonance with an envelope source set to a slow-ish attack time (50-75).
It's nowhere as exact as something like the "talker" effect on the Korg Trinity but interesting enough. The key seems to be in experimenting with the small amount of filter movement provided by the envelope.
Like me, you'll probably not get quite the sound you're after but end up stumbling across some unique noise you'd never have got otherwise!
Which is nice.
Perhaps this is a specialised area of synth design? I've not heard the Yamaha FS1R Formant-Shaping synth yet, but it sounds like this is more the sort of thing that would excel in this area.
As always, the Nova does so many things so well (and cheaply) that we sometimes assume that it is capable of creating any of the sounds we want to hear!
In the meantime I've got some "vaguely vowelly" (?) sounds from the Nova by using the band pass filter on harmonically rich sounds (a bit of ring-modulator and distortion always helps!) and modulating small amounts of freqency/resonance with an envelope source set to a slow-ish attack time (50-75).
It's nowhere as exact as something like the "talker" effect on the Korg Trinity but interesting enough. The key seems to be in experimenting with the small amount of filter movement provided by the envelope.
Like me, you'll probably not get quite the sound you're after but end up stumbling across some unique noise you'd never have got otherwise!
Which is nice.
Perhaps this is a specialised area of synth design? I've not heard the Yamaha FS1R Formant-Shaping synth yet, but it sounds like this is more the sort of thing that would excel in this area.
As always, the Nova does so many things so well (and cheaply) that we sometimes assume that it is capable of creating any of the sounds we want to hear!
Message 3/6 19-Mar-00 @ 10:49 PM - RE: Vowel Filters
I had a FS1R for a few days and it annoyed the hell out of me! I was intrigued by the thought of vocal-type synthesis, and I liked the sounds on the module.
But after I had one for a while, I realized how annoying it was to program, and it's limitations were unacceptable (you can't program your own formant sequences without special software, and you can only use one formant sequence in a performance). Even worse, the formant sequences were very sloppy, timing-wise. And most of the sequences were pretty lame, too (lots of stupid "oh yeah" phrases and other pointless and unusable crap).
Enough of my bitching...
Anyway, I, too, am interested in formant/vowel programming/patch info for the Supernova.
Andy L.
But after I had one for a while, I realized how annoying it was to program, and it's limitations were unacceptable (you can't program your own formant sequences without special software, and you can only use one formant sequence in a performance). Even worse, the formant sequences were very sloppy, timing-wise. And most of the sequences were pretty lame, too (lots of stupid "oh yeah" phrases and other pointless and unusable crap).
Enough of my bitching...
Anyway, I, too, am interested in formant/vowel programming/patch info for the Supernova.
Andy L.
Message 4/6 21-Mar-00 @ 11:50 AM - RE: Vowel Filters
I have made a perf that performs this function already. I posted it on the Novastation 1 email list some months ago.
Phill@Novation
Phill@Novation
Message 5/6 23-Mar-00 @ 01:42 AM - RE: Vowel Filters
Where can you joing the Novastation email list?
Where, where, where?!?!
Andy L.
Where, where, where?!?!
Andy L.
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