Zach Archer Blog » synthesis http://blog.zacharcher.com Friend to analog and digital alike Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:24:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 A Formant Sequencer in Flashhttp://blog.zacharcher.com/2011/03/14/a-formant-sequence-editor-in-flash/ http://blog.zacharcher.com/2011/03/14/a-formant-sequence-editor-in-flash/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2011 01:12:10 +0000 Zach http://blog.zacharcher.com/?p=284 I started an open source project: fseq-flash is a formant sequence editor. Current features include:

  • Import AIFF files
  • Audition and edit formant sequences in real time
  • Export .syx files for the Yamaha FS1R

Click to launch. Press the space bar to play the sound.

You can push your formant sequence to the Yamaha FS1R, using software such as K_Take's FS1R Editor. Click the "Save .syx" button, and follow the instructions in K_Take's documentation. This is a lot of fun, and breathes new life into the FS1R.

This project became much deeper than anticipated! The code includes FFT analysis (thanks Gerry Beauregard), pitch detection, a formant detection algorithm, and an AIFF parser to read AIFF files. The interface was a challenge to design and implement, and there are still many unfinished features (see the issues list).

My energy is shifting to other work, so I'll enhance fseq-flash when time permits.

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Here's my first attempt at LPC speech in Flash: (click & explore)

It's great, except for one tiny problem: It sounds horrific. Can you feel the cold, robotic love? This voice will stalk your nightmares.

The phonemes were derived from an unrehearsed recording of my voice. I'm confident that it can be improved. Note that direct LPC encodings of my voice, such as this one, sound more acceptable.

EDIT: I made an iPhone version, "Metal Mouth", with lots of features. Here it is on YouTube and the iTunes Store!

EDIT #2: The source code is available here.

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