<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman;}</style></head><body>Hi Aksel,<br><span>I am very impressed with the new song you made using Dectalk! To me, The midi file sounds like an actual backup track. Are you a member of the band? I definitely like the lyrics and music style. I am also impressed that you know how to do harmony in Dectalk. Wow!</span><br><span>Curiosity question: Is htere a reason you uploaded the song as a wave filei nstead of MP3?</span><br><span>Blake</span><br><span> </span><br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: Aksel Leo Christoffersen <aksel@blindsigtmail.dk><br>To: 'DECtalk' <dectalk@bluegrasspals.com><br>Sent: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 05:50:31 -0400 (EDT)<br>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] A DECtalk song I've made<br><br><br><div class="WordSection1 "><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">First, I find a backing track, or use a midi file. It depends of which I think sounds best. Then, I guess on what the tempo is, and start to write the DECtalk phoneme times so it matches with the tempo. I then continue and write maybe 4 lines of the song with DECtalk, and then start the music, and press play in DECtalk at the right moment, so the DECtalk plays along with the music, to test if it syncronise perfect with the music. If it’s good, I just continue writing the DECtalk song. If it doesn’t, I adjust the phonemes until it’s as I like.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Best regards:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Aksel Christoffersen</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:DA">Fra:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:DA"> Dectalk [mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com] <strong>På vegne af </strong>mattias jonsson<br><strong>Sendt:</strong> 28. juni 2019 11:42<br><strong>Til:</strong> dectalk@bluegrasspals.com<br><strong>Emne:</strong> Re: [DECtalk] A DECtalk song I've made</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p>wow how do you do that?</p><br><div><p class="MsoNormal">Den 2019-06-28 kl. 11:15, skrev Aksel Leo Christoffersen:</p><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">Hi,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Well, I’ve made this song called This Is My Life for DECtalk. It’s writen by a danish band called Gasolin’, but the lyrics are in english. The music is a midi-file played through my keyboard.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I would love to hear what you think about it.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Here it is:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/xq61xpm3vfjo07b/DECtalk%20Sings%20-%20This%20Is%20My%20Life%20by%20Gasolin%27.wav?dl=1" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/xq61xpm3vfjo07b/DECtalk%20Sings%20-%20This%20Is%20My%20Life%20by%20Gasolin%27.wav?dl=1</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Best regards:</p><p class="MsoNormal">Aksel Christoffersen</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:DA"><br><br></span></p><pre>_______________________________________________</pre><pre>Dectalk mailing list</pre><pre><a href="mailto:Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" target="_blank">Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a></pre><pre><a href="http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk" target="_blank">http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk</a></pre></blockquote></body></html>