Synthesize singing voice with Voxen
Voxen is a voice synthesizer. It lets you synthesize singing voices. Any voice, not just the few voices that someone else designed into it.
Plus voices that no vocalist can sing. No pitch shifting. No time warping. Just good ol’ pure synthesis.
Voxen is based on the voice synthesis technology used by speech scientists and psychoacousticians around the globe. Even though it can be great fun to play with, it is not a toy. Voxen is intended for musicians, DJs and producers who are looking for new and different sources of sounds.
It’s time to set your aural imagination free…
FEATURES
- Eight note polyphony
- Keyboard range of more than ten octaves
- Three X-Y touchpads
- Twenty-eight vertical linear knobs
- Choice of dark or light background colour
- Eight choices of foreground colour
- Save and load user-defined patches
SUPPORT
If you have any questions or problems, our community forum is the best place to find support:http://community.modphon.com
This is version 1.0, so please do not expect perfection. It would be nice to believe that all bugs have been found and eliminated, but years of experience says that there are still a few left to be found. If you do find a problem, please tell us so we can fix it!
There is additional functionality already in the pipeline for version 1.1 and beyond. Top of the list are MIDI and Audiobus support. We have great plans for Voxen. Visit our community forum to help shape the future of Voxen.
PS
Voxen is *not* a text-to-speech system. You cannot provide it with lyrics and expect it to sing them. Voxen is a synthesizer that acoustically simulates a glottis and vocal tract, allowing you to manually control the sound. It synthesizes sounds, not words.
Because a human voice is more complex than nearly any other musical instrument, a synthesizer of human voices is also very complex. To control one can require the real-time manipulation and coordination of dozens of separate parameters.
If you are looking for something that creates a musical performance from a piece of sheet music and some lyrics on a scrap of paper, hire a good vocalist. On the other hand, if you are looking some new and different sounds, use Voxen.
Voxen is 50% off at launch. The initial price is $7.99.
Keynote-Talk @ m4music Festival 2014: Daniel Miller in Conversation with Markus Kavka
Als Daniel Miller 1978 Mute Records in London gründete, konnte er noch nicht ahnen, dass sein Label zu einem der einflussreichsten Indie-Labels der 80er und 90er Jahre werden sollte. Mit Bands wie Depeche Mode, Erasure, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Moby, Goldfrapp, und vielen mehr schrieb das Label Musikgeschichte.
Im Gespräch mit dem Musikjournalisten und Autoren Markus Kavka unterhält sich Daniel Miller über Mute, sein Leben und die Zukunft der Musikindustrie.
Daniel Miller: Mute/Founder & Chairman, DJ, London
Moderation: Markus Kavka, Moderator, Autor, Journalist, Berlin
How to use Caustic 3.1 with AudioBus and virtual MIDI (iOS)
Enjoy
Elektron: Introducing Analog Rytm OS 1.01
Elektron has released Analog Rytm OS 1.01, and update that introduces two new machines. BDFM (Bass drum FM) and SDFM (Snare drum FM) are based on linear FM synthesis and give the Analog Rytm with new sonic possibilities.
OS 1.01 introduces two new machines. BDFM (Bass drum FM) and SDFM (Snare drum FM) are based on linear FM synthesis and endow the Analog Rytm with even more sonic possibilities. Other improvements brought by OS 1.01 include more copy/paste options and several usability tweaks. For a full list of changes, see the documentation included with the upgrade zip-file.
Audio examples of the new FM machines in action can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/elektron/sets/…
Analog Rytm OS 1.01 is available for free download athttp://www.elektron.se
Teenage Engineering OP-1/VolcaBeats/ReBirth Jam
OP-1/VolcaBass/ReBirth Jam using Belkin Rockstar Headphone Splitter as a Passive Mixer. Well worth £10!
808 Cube – Online Rubik’s Cube TR-808 Sequencer
In connection with the 40th anniversary of the cube 
Darker Digital – Kickboxer
Darker Digital has released Kickboxer for Kontakt 5.
Kickboxer is designed around the sound of analog 808 drum machines processed with high end outboard gear – designed to deliver punchy transients and analog overtones.
On top of an analog 808 kit, Kickboxer includes many other analog drum and digital synth bass sounds. Kickboxer’s internal step sequencer features a piano roll for basslines, a gated reverb and other sequenced effects.
The GUI also includes controls for transistor and tube distortion, tape saturation, a ladder filter, a convolution reverb and a bus compressor.
Price: $99. There is a $69 introductory offer until June 19th, 2014, at the Darker Digital online store.
Pyramid of Numbers = Modular+Reaktor+Leap+EPSi+Big Sky
‘A Box In The Sea’ explores using gestural control with a Leap Motion and Ableton Push as controllers for Reaktor and a modular synthesizer.
Starting with a beautiful sound from the Braids and Morphing Terrarium. Sampled with the Phonogene and processed through the Echophon/ZDSP/Big Sky/EPSi. The Piano is Reaktor and a water sample played together. The beginning atmosphere is KORE2 animated circuits. The Leap is controlling all the modulation in Reaktor, Big Sky and KORE2.
MicroCosmos
Used:
Korg Microkorg
Korg Microsampler
New video from Polly Scattergood – Miss You
Learn more on Polly here >>
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