1st submission

soylent.green · Post by **soylent.green** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 9:36 am

<a name="planetz-file"></a><a href="http://www.konglomer.at/Topics/musik/In ... .mp3"><img src="/forums/images/listen_icon.gif" border="0" alt=" Song"> Song</a> <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Genre: Electronic <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Uses: Pulsar Effects,Pulsar Mixers,Pulsar Synths copyright © 2004 Peter H. _____________________________________ Hi folks, 
listen to my 1st submission to this forum.
Hopefully you'll enjoy it. 
The "lyrics" are german, I'm sorry, but I was to lazy to do a english translation, to meet the requirements of an international audience

But anyway they are of no special sence and are more or less just an experiment with speech synthezise software. 
Cheers,
Peter H.

[ This Message was edited by: soylent.green on 2006-10-14 13:55 ]

Submarine · Post by **Submarine** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 11:25 am

Very nice electro ;it remembers me on "Kraftwerk".The lyrics dont have to be in english i think.Very nice synths.
Pretty cool work.

Ricardo · Post by **Ricardo** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 9:32 am

The lyrics definitely don't have to be in English. Remember lyrics are just another instrument in your composition. It's all about texture in my mind, unless you really do want the lyrics to be heard and understood. (Eg. Who the hell understands what those opera divas are singing about half the time).
Great first post.
Regards

Post by **Neil B** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 4:35 am

Superb first upload.
Great choice of patches throughout.
Definitely very Kraftwerk.

I'm interested to know what speech synthesis you used because I can sing as well as a dead parrot (Norwegian Blue)and I have lots of ideas that need vocals.

More tracks like this please.

next to nothing · Post by **next to nothing** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 12:27 pm

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedi ... lue-parrot

sorry, just had to

Michu · Post by **Michu** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 2:37 pm

way OT, sorry

Piddi, i hate you
now i want Monty Phyton Rabbit with Big Pointy Teeth

soylent.green · Post by **soylent.green** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 4:11 am

Hi y'all,
thanks for the reviews!

Neil - I've used "Read Please"
(http://www.readplease.com) for this track.
It allows you to choose between different "people", which actually means different timbres. Extra timbres could be plugged in easily.
For the track I recorded the different phrases as WAV and imported them in LOGIC.
Then I applied different online effects to the lyrics tracks. It's amazing what you can achive with a bit of reverb, chorus and very slight pitch shifting.

BTW: "Read Please" is commercial, but there are other free synths around. Take a look at
http://www.inetmarketingusa.com/webtool ... tware.html or just google like I did it...

ChrisWerner · Post by **ChrisWerner** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:03 am

Es ensteht.
Nice thought behind your track.
Neil and I used the same speech programm for our Starchaser trilogy but not the german version.
The track is great I like it very much, it is very busy in a good way.
One critic I have though. What you think about to use the voices less or not so often?
I think it´s repeats itselfs too much. After the first sentences let your listeners work out what they have heard and underline it with your music. Then build up some breaks and solos and sent out the message again. I felt distracted by all this speech, the music went to much in the back.
Welcome to Z.

Post by **Neil B** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:11 am

The free version?

As Chris said, we used this in the Starchaser tracks - I was just surprised by the naturalness of your vocals. Obviously it was how you did the pitch shifting. I could only get "movement" by adding question marks in the wrong places and spelling words wrong to get their length or emphasis right.