Originally Posted By: JohnJohnJohn
Originally Posted By: Mac
The thing is in its infancy, who knows at this point in time if it will develop into something usable in production, or perhaps into something along the lines of a Special Effect sort of thing someday, as in the overuse/abuse of Autotune to get the Cher Effect was.

But consider that there are some folks who cannot speak or sing anymore, like our own good forum member Don, who just might be able to get enjoyment out of their songwriting and demos from the use of this feature.

So many on this forum only see Band in a Box as whatever it is that they themselves want to use it for, there's plenty of room for all the other stuff as well, if you don't like a particular feature, style, addon or command in the program, just don't use it. There are likely others who view that same thing as their "must have".


--Mac

Yeah, I certainly appreciate that sort of use and I have heard computer generated voices that were reasonably accurate but still artificial sounding...these would be great for someone who cannot speak or sing. But that demo was terrible and many of the words were not even remotely correct. Why would anyone want something so bad? You could hit a garbage can lid with a stick and get closer on many of the words!


That's actually been done quite often. It's called reggae.

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But I side with the nay sayers and can't imagine why PG spent 5 minitues on this feature.

The issues go way beyond the technical ineptitude of voice synthesis to the very heart and soul of great singing which is
PHRASING!

Relatively few singers can phrase worth a darn and almost no non-singer musicians would have a clue. So "note based" vocal synthesis...even if the voice could be made to sound totally lifelike...would be doomed to sounding S...Q...U...A...R...E!

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Jim