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Re: Pink Trombone

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Post by mobilejdral »

smlacy wrote: post #11

Pondering what makes this sound "male".

I have actually used this very tool back in the day to help learn how to speak in a male or female voice. One of the five things I do is manipulation of my tongue to change the cavity of my mouth to make the space bigger (more masculine) or smaller (more feminine) which this tool demonstrates very well.

Edit: to be clear I used to sound male 24/7 and now I sound female 24/7 Rather than thinking you are speaking male or female it helps if you think you are playing a musical instrument with a number of controls that you control (with your mind whahahaha). Then it is just about learning what each control does and how to play them so you get the result you want.

Your voice is muscle memory so while at the start I had to actively "play" a female voice that is no longer the case and now if I ever want to "play" a male voice I have to actively think about how I am going to speak each word to make it male.

Re: Pink Trombone

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Post by borski »

codetrotter wrote: post #52
djsumdog wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

or a desktop/windows app. Back then we'd be more likely to call them programs.

And also sometimes referred to as applications. And while the abbreviation “app” only became mainstream around the time of the first iPhone, the warez scene had a habit of referring to software applications as “appz” since way before then, which admittedly is not the exact same word as “app”, appz being an intentional misspelling of a pluralization of the abbreviation, but it’s close to it. They sure loved the letter…

To be fair, we also said progz.

Re: Pink Trombone

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Post by undershirt »

emmelaich wrote: post #56

This would be useful to demonstrate the difference between p/f and l/r for those brought up without those distinctions. I'd also (as an English speaker) like to see/hear Dutch g and Xhosan clicks.

yes, I think it's time for this to be connected to text input for seeing how any word is pronounced.

specifically: https://twitter.com/shaunlebron/status/989192507828432896

Re: Pink Trombone

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Post by phamilton »

willchang wrote: post #4

This is amazing. I can get it to make almost any speech sound, but one I can't get is [s], because the model lacks teeth!

The model also lacks mouth width/lip shape, which is crucial for differentiating between Swedish vowels (for example i vs y, which have most of the mouth the same except for y has the lips protruding and i is more of a smile).

Re: Pink Trombone

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Post by Karlax »

Digit-Al wrote: post #19

Is the author aware of the other meaning of "pink trombone"?[1] [1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pink%20tromb...

For some reason, dirty names are common practice in audio tools. Some examples: "Rectal Anarchy" is another vocal synth for Buzz, grANALizer (emphasis not mine) is a popular granular audio effect, and even in the commercial world, it gets more subtle but it still exists: Image Line sells a plugin called "Gross Beat", which is a bilingual en/fr dirty joke.

Re: Pink Trombone

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Post by baddash »

codetrotter wrote: post #52
djsumdog wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

or a desktop/windows app. Back then we'd be more likely to call them programs.

And also sometimes referred to as applications. And while the abbreviation “app” only became mainstream around the time of the first iPhone, the warez scene had a habit of referring to software applications as “appz” since way before then, which admittedly is not the exact same word as “app”, appz being an intentional misspelling of a pluralization of the abbreviation, but it’s close to it. They sure loved the letter…

How were you involved in the warez scene? How did things work, and how have they changed? Stories that are part of the history of the internet are always intriguing to me so I'm really interested in hearing about that.

Re: Pink Trombone

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Post by ryan-allen »

peterlk wrote: post #42
modeless wrote: post #8

In a similar vein: http://www.adultswim.com/etcetera/choir/ The most interesting thing about this one is the chord progressions it generates.

If you're interested in chord generation, I've used Cthulu[0] by Xfer records to experiment with chord progressions quickly. [0] https://xferrecords.com/products/cthulhu

Cubase Chord Pads are also pretty sweet!

Re: Pink Trombone

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Post by abrichr »

quacked wrote: post #27
veli_joza wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very impressive indeed. I dug around and found his tweet: "uses a neural network I trained on choral pieces to generate the harmonization for your melody" [0] https://twitter.com/daviddotli/status/1075068713936830464

Man, shoot. I compose a bit myself and am really into vocal harmony and I was hoping that he'd hard-coded some theory rules. I did notice that it seems to vary with the past 3 notes you've moved to. If you continue repeating the same pattern of jumps among the scale, you can replicate the chords the voices slide to.

> I compose a bit myself and am really into vocal harmony and I was hoping that he'd hard-coded some theory rules.

Would you find this useful? Is this not already available somewhere? Sounds like a fun project!

Re: Pink Trombone

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Post by alanh »

modeless wrote: post #8

In a similar vein: http://www.adultswim.com/etcetera/choir/ The most interesting thing about this one is the chord progressions it generates.

I didn't expect that to be so beautiful.
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