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mkastrup · Post by **mkastrup** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 10:19 am

Been a while since i made some noise around here

Was planning to return when Zebra 3 was released but that bugger seems to pull some tooths and leave us here with our hands in our laps. However i took Z2 for a spin for a new synthesis concept i'm working on and this is the result:

http://www.xsynth.com/demos/MK_Z2_2014_A.mp3

Can you say Ahhhhhh

EDIT: added download link to some presets

http://www.xsynth.com/download/MK_More_Formants.zip

/Michael

VoltAirOhm · Post by **VoltAirOhm** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 10:29 am

Glad to hear from again Michael

Nice melody, I look forward to your next Z2 presets!

Vertti · Post by **Vertti** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 10:29 am

Made me smile.

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 11:03 am

zvenx · Post by **zvenx** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 11:28 am

Michael any plans for some presets for Diva 1.3? I have simply replaced the uhbie filter in some of your diva factory presets and it took already great presets to a completely different level.

rsp

Howard · Post by **Howard** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 11:31 am

Michael is back!

Brittlestem · Post by **Brittlestem** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 11:43 am

That's a cracking good tune.

Payam Tavakoli · Post by **Payam Tavakoli** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 11:46 am

MFXxx · Post by **MFXxx** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 12:55 pm

Very nice and interesting track/demo.

3ee · Post by **3ee** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 2:08 pm

haha cool! looking forward to the result.

bk · Post by bk » Tue Jan 14, 2014 3:02 pm

Nice!

Sendy · Post by **Sendy** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 3:10 pm

FORMANTS! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

Sweet demo and proof-of-concept. The voice sounds especially nice high up (which is where most synths doing complex modulation can fall flat on their face).

hollo · Post by **hollo** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 3:22 pm

Great to see you around Michael!

nBeat · Post by **nBeat** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 3:25 pm

Sendy wrote:FORMANTS! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

mkastrup · Post by **mkastrup** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 10:26 pm

After some trial and error i found that a good clean "ah" needs at least 4 filters, 5 filters is better since it will improve the lower keys. Anyways 4 filters can do it pretty nice with Z2, the hard work is finding the frequencies which will give the fullest formant spread over the keys. Using additive synthesis will only lead to chipmonks, just like playing a sample of a voice, so it have to be filters through the use of frequencies, resonance and keyfollow. Having ZERO keyfollow will make it sound more like a vocoder voice.

So far i've made this preset on Kurzweil PC361 (this one is crazy because it can layer 32! filters), Reason NNXT and a synth in development. So this should be doable on any synth that allows at least 4 filters to control a SAW waveform.

Got the idea from a vocoder preset i made in Reason Parsec and was wondering, what if i picked out the most essential frequencies and re-created it using filters.

So as you properly have guessed i'm into my formant period

/Michael

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