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Sarrova-Q · Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 46 Location: Belgium

Just a short demo to demonstrate what the Formant Oscillator is capable of:

Electribe EMX presenting itself:

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=828880&content=music

(only EMX)

djezballz · Joined: 07 Feb 2008 Posts: 22

that's pretty cool... I'm still digging into the formant sounds...is that the waveform, or the effect or both?

Sarrova-Q · Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 46 Location: Belgium

I only used two synth parts making this demo:

I used the formant oscillator with a lot of motion sequence to generate different vowels like 'EE' and AAI'
and in addition to that the dual oscillator (set to sawtooth + noise) for generating sounds like 'T' or 'S' (also with motion sequences like changing the filter from Low to High Pass).

At the end of the demo I used the pitch shifter for a different kind of voice.

I noticed that many people didn't know this kind of e-talking was possible in the EMX, so I decided to make a demo of it.

Ruso · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:17 pm Post subject:

hey that is very impressive. I knew it was possible never had the energy to do it. The one thing I didn't think about was a second synth part to add the tone. Good job man, I really like it.
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reddone · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:28 pm Post subject:

man thats really good !! ive gotten close-ish a couple of times by using pretty much those exact methods ... but u hav it sounding MUCH better .

Uve inspired me to give it another go , cheers . well done .
definatly the most creative thing ive heard in a while .

Sarrova-Q · Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 46 Location: Belgium

Many thx for the nice replies.

Just to thank you guys I made another demo Wink

. This time I made a full song so you can here what the 'formant talking' sounds like in a mix.
Everything you here is straight from the EMX, no overdubbing or external FX is used.
The sidechain effect is done with AMP modulation and live tweaking (that's what knobs are meant for Very Happy

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The song is called "Thank You / Electro Music"
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_music.cfm?bandID=828880

acertainpoint · Full Member Joined: 24 Apr 2007 Posts: 121

dude, that song is bad ass man

very very inspirational....

i think im going to go mess with my emx now Wink

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djezballz · Joined: 07 Feb 2008 Posts: 22

very nice. liked the song, too. It's going on my ipod, I wanna hear in in my car... (the true test!) Wink

I just was goofing around myself with the formants today and ripped this one out...only spent a few hours on it so far, and I basically did this mix on the fly, so lots of mistakes. I noticed from your description that you use only hardware in your live setup. That's what I'm aiming for too...
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6492512

the formant stuff starts at around 1:44... I wasn't trying to make it talk, I just was playing with the sounds.

anyway, thanks for the demo. Lots to play with!

AmigaHeretic · Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Posts: 46

reddone · Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 9:19 pm Post subject:

man that tune is f*ck*ng SUPERB !!!

possibly the coolest electribe tune ive heard anyone do yet , lovin that style n sound youve got going there . Tight my main man , and i love the general oldskool/nu-skool house sounds .

dropped that one a rating for sure Wink

i'll be expecting you to do well in the next electribe tourney

P.S. after my third listen i really did almost forget the voice isnt sampled . Excellant , love the execution on this .

djezballz · Joined: 07 Feb 2008 Posts: 22

gotta love the pads pumping with the bass drum. one of my fave tricks, I even used to do it for my guitar-based bands...throw a side mix of BD, bass guitar, and rhythm guitar through a cheap- ass 3630 and bring it front and center...

MBV used to experiment with s**t like that...