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How about this for a wish: lyrics that sing!

I noticed that there is software around for turning written text into spoken words. Is there any chance NWC version X could include software which "pronounces" and "sings" lyrics to tune? Hey, how about say an Elvis voice or perhaps even a Pavarotti?

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Reply #1 –
What a neat idea! I wonder, though, what people normally choose as a "voice" for their vocal lines.

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Reply #2 –
I either just sing with the music,
in which case I mute the melody line but follow it as it plays.
Otherwise I or use the best instruments for my sound card.
Organs are usually fair as are strings.
I consider the suggestion of yours very futuristic.
I would like basic features such as chord splitting and percussion tracks.
Also, one function that I require often in my compositions is single line staffs.
I have grown up with these at school and orchestra.
It would be expected for timpani, triangle and other instruments, also for many ethnic instruments which I usually am writing the music down for.
Could you consider these things please? I would much appreciate these things to do in the program otherwise is there a better program you suggest to me?
Thank you

ISHUO

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Reply #3 –
"Singing Lyrics" in various voices (and languages) are available already with other software. I have a demo on a different product that I rarely use because I prefer NWC. But here's the catch: It seems that "singing lyrics" is VERY, VERY hardware intensive. Big memory, high speed, top end. I can't imagine that would be a useful addition to NWC even though it would be nice. Every product has its niche.

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Reply #4 –
Will it come with a free bucket? ;-)

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Reply #5 –
I use "choir ahs," which sounds fairly good on a modern midrange sound card, but appears to be an alias for "untuned buzz saw" on my 6-year-old el cheapo card.

"Voice ohs" retains something of the timbre of the lumbermill even on my newer card.

This doesn't get enunciated words, of course.

If you must try to do _that_ on the cheap, it seems to me that you could go a long way playing clever games with a syllabary encoded in a sound font. (The old sweat-vs-money tradeoff...)

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Reply #6 –
Yes, as someone else said, nice idea, but the effort involved has to make it a low priority.

Robin Withey

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Reply #7 –
Guys and gals, we can't even get the mid-range soundcards to produce a decent rhythm guitar sound - make them sing???? I honestly don't think it's gonna be anything appreciable. Plus it will need a bucket...

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Reply #8 –
I find you can get a reasonable facsimile of this by using the trombone patch with pitch bends.

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Reply #9 –
Besides NWC, I own another music program created by a company in Frnace. It has "singing lyrics" in either French or English.

To me (Je ne parle qu'un peu de francais) the French "singing" sounds great, but the English "singing" sounds awful.

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Reply #10 –
Yeah, it was just a fun post! I have a shareware program called "Willow Talk" which dictates aloud written documents; not totally convincing but lots of fun and very useful when I am too lazy to read stuff, especially work-related academic (boring) papers.

I am a fan of Schubert Lieder hence you could appreciate how neat it would be to have some of these NWC's file actually sung! "Leise flehen, meine Lieder..." bla, bla, bla!

I am going to make a silly prediction: NWC will have such a function by 2010! Hehehe...

In the meantime, how about hidden slurs - pretty please!

Yours, Clive

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Reply #11 –
8-() Dudes, I've seen a lot of weird things in my time, but this - wow - is really going over the top!

First of all, we've got the synthesizers, in order to replace instruments we can't get for performing live...

Second, we've got the sequencers, in order to make them play the right thing at the right time - as if live musicians couldn't!...

Third, we've got smaplers, in order to fine-tune the quality of the sounds we create for the two latter...

AND NOW, YOU WANT TO REPLACE THE SINGERS?!? 8-)

Come on, dudes, there are a lot of things we need to work on already on this program before we replace Helmut Lotti with our Sound-Blaster, no?

So let's write, and let's keep live performing to those who are going to READ the charts we print! Okey-dokey?
 

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Reply #12 –
Agreed. But just for fun, someone should create a sound font that sounds like Charlie Browns' parents. Wah wuh wah wah wah wuh.