re: vocal loops

["Devious D_MasterMixer" <dj_devious_d@hotmail.com>]

The URL for that app is http://www.nextuptech.com/  and of course,  I have purchased this little app, and it is the bomb. I go to lyric.com, (or whatever that site is, that has all the lyrics to current songs, and I cut and paste those lyrics into Text Aloud MP3). Now, for inflections and pauses, I use comma's, and hyphens and stuff, to get the vocals flowing rhymatically, then I throw them in Sound Forge, for editing, and "Effects", and viola, you got Marty The Martian singing "All 4 U", it's cool !

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From: "Rick Walker \(loop.pool\)"

Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com

To:

Subject: re: vocal loops

Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:36:32 -0700

speaking of vocals, I'm working on a piece right now that involves a little

shareware program I just downloaded that converts text to speech.

It is called Text Aloud and it has four voices (three men and one woman?)

whose voices you can change the pitch and speed of.

Fascinated with trying to f*ck up simple programs and see what interesting

artifacts that I can get out of them, I typed in a whole bunch of vowel

combinations like, "oooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu aaaaaiiiiiii

eeeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuuu oaoaoaoaoaoaoaoaoa

aaaaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiioooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuu

uuandsometimesw

etc.

It produced the coolest warbling effects. I then chopped the experiments

and used them in as my 'lead vocals' in a piece that my wife calls, "party

music from mars".........it has this jaunty latin-esque thing to it,

primarily because I generated a random marimba line using fractals (another

cool randomization program, SoftStep2.0 that writes really wierd midi

sequences using

different randomization algorythms). It's strange and I'm liking it a lot.

I guess this kind of qualifies for this thread.

yours, Rick (loop..........ah you get the idea)

PS I don't think that I have the URLs for these programs anymore but it

should be easy enough to find them by typing their names into any good

search engine (I recommend Googol)

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