[DECtalk] Too high-pitched notes, and DecTalk sounds distorted

Katie Madison katiewht at sbcglobal.net
Wed Aug 6 17:47:09 EDT 2008


Hi Alix,
That is some good advice. I'll try lowering the pitch in one of my next 
songs.
Katie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Hall" <mehgcap at gwi.net>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Too high-pitched notes, and DecTalk sounds distorted


> You could always drop it a key or two, or just subtract 12 from
> the numbers you are using.  This would make it an octave lower
> than the song, but it would not squeal or give you bursts of
> static, as I think you are getting with the high notes.  What I
> mean by dropping it a key or so is subtracting the same number
> from all the note numbers.  If you wanted to drop the sequence
> 24, 27, 29, 26, 24 from b (where it is now) to, say g, just
> subtract 4 from all those numbers and get 20, 23, 25, 22, 20.
> Dropping the sequence 1 octave is, as I said, just subtracting 12
> from all the numbers.  I know this does not give you the pitch
> you want, but you can get the song working like you want it and
> then play with the numbers, being careful to add or subtract the
> same thing to all of them, until you find the highest pitch dt
> will go.  Sorry I could not be of more help, and let me know if
> that did not make sense.  By the way, your English is extremely
> good, much better than my Spanish, and I took five and a half
> years of consecutive Spanishcourses.
>
> Have a great day,
> Alex
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: Talksina <evvivajaws at libero.it
>>To: dectalk at bluegrasspals.com
>>Date sent: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:43:56 +0200
>>Subject: [DECtalk] Too high-pitched notes, and DecTalk sounds
> distorted
>
>>Hi,
>>I'd like to ask a question to DecTalk experienced users.
>>how to manage high-pitched notes?
>>Well, I tried to build the song "moonlight shadow", by Mike
> Oldfield,
>>one of my favourite songs but the voice pitch was very very high
> and
>>not nice to hear; notes are, if I can remember well, over the 26
>>number! Or at least 24! The herz code to associate to the
> phoneme,
>>for producing the note, I mean.
>>I heard many songs on the archive that I suppose are much more
>>difficult than Moonlight shadow.  That song "i swear" by Snoopi
> Boten
>>especially.  He managed to make it sing quite OK with All4one's
> voice
>>in background! I'd never do something like that, using the
> original
>>song, as it would confuse me a lot.
>>and Snoopi, if you read me, I am going to buy one of your cd's
> soon,
>>after holidays.  I'd like to promote your skills in my country
> too.
>>You deserve it all.
>>Thanks in advance for advices on the high pitched notes
>>PS my next synth challenge will be the song "happy days"
>
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