Simulating consonants

[Tusker]

I had a great deal of fun playing with the vocal filter today. It is amazing the amount of study of the throat resonances that has been done isn't it?

I thought it might be a good exercise to learn how to do consonants. Wondering if anybody in the community has done that sort of thing.

I imagine sibilants are essentially filtered white noise and plosives are low frequency thumps, but I was wondering if anybody has done any actual study into the spectra and time based change (envelope shapes)? Care to share?

Jerry

[davep]

You should pay close attention to Mr. Kees Van Der Maarel (sorry if I'm not spelling it right). He has made several patches for both the NM1 & G2 that make them talk. Check the archives for anything by him & you should find several examples. "Stroopwafels!" amd "Clavia" and "Akosua" are some that I remember. Maybe he'll chime in here with some handy tips and hints for making consonants.

[Tusker]

Found them.

Thanks to Mr. Kees Vander Maarel my Nord is saying Cawfee, right now.

There is a wealth of patching theory in the archive. Thank you.

Jerry

[cebec]

Hi.

Here, too: the section on Speech Synthesis from James J. Clark's 'Advanced Programming Techniques for Modular Synthesizers'

http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~clark/nordmodularbook/nm_speech.html

[Tusker]

That's awesome. I was looking for a taxonomy of consonants, and that is certainly helpful. I'll try out some of his patches for the stopped consonants and see where that takes me.

Cheers,

Jerry

[Kees]

[Tusker]

Thank you Kees. Your patches are an inspiration.

I want to construct a lead patch where I can trigger a few simple phonemes at or after key-on using additional controllers (or a second note zone). A silly scat-singing parlor trick.

Du, Dah, Bap, DuDuDuDu DuBap

Jerry