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Wasn't the Fairlight capable of doing that? Taking any voice sample and allowing you to "sing" with that voice?



No.

The Fairlight is a sampler. It allowed you to sample a sung note, and use it as a sample. Plain and simple.

These questions about totally morphing one's tone/timbre of someone's voice into another's seem to be popular here lately.

The state of the art of digital music is not there yet, nor will it be for a very long time.

This isn't as simple as amplifier simulation, or EQ, or Melodyne DNA, which all by comparison are much simpler DSP tasks. It's not as simple as converting the pitch of a tone to MIDI note information. Morphing one's voice into another's without it sounding processed is a much much more complicated task. Look, I have friends that are doing post doctoral research in audio DSP as it pertains to music at Stanford and University of Michigan. They aren't even close to this yet. Feel free to peruse their on-going research. Stanford's CCRMA on-going research topics: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/category/group-type/research-group

U-M's ongoing research topics: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/eecs/research/area.html?r_id=36

There are other universities specializing in signal processing for audio in the US, in Europe and elsewhere. None of them have tried to reach this far yet; so the prospects of being able to do this with our resources in our DAW software are meager at best.

I sat in the musical DSP presentations last week at the Acoustical Society of America meeting in San Diego. Nothing even remotely close to this complicated was presented.

I would concentrate my energies elsewhere, unless you want to get involved with the folks at CCRMA at Stanford, or Greg Wakefield's folks at U-M, etc.

The answer is not EQ. The answer is a bank of Core i7 computers using some type of algorithms not even invented yet.

Sorry if that sounds harsh, but if it were available at our fingertips, there would be YouTube videos showing how it's done. "Look here, I changed my voice to sound like Mel Torme, or Elvis, or Justin Bieber - here's how you can do it."

-Scott

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