VCV Rack - Formant Talking Synth From Scratch Tutorial

huskendriller · Joined: Jul 01, 2020 Posts: 38 Location: Britain

VCV Rack offers a formant module but that is not as flexible as it seems. The EQ from MindMeld gives you greater control over the bell curve resonance you need to create your formants from scratch. This tutorial gives you the basic 'ee', 'aa' and 'oo' from three Tiny Tricks oscillators.
All you need:

3 ocillators
3 EQ's - make sure the Q is high, the Amp is medium and all four frequency points are peaked. Cross over the low two frequencies, set the high at a point where the resonance can be heard and then play with the mid frequency back and fore until you hear a vowel.
3 ADSR - I prefer pluck as an ADSR

Simple Smile

https://youtu.be/vZQgiAegWzw