Originally Posted by musician17
STUNNING. You are one of the very best songwriters on here, without a shadow of a doubt.

Techie question smile : how did you make Saros II talk? There are a couple of places (especially, of course, towards the end) in which he talks, rather than sing.

Anyway:

What an achievement. Saros II is the perfect choice for this song, I might just have to put the money aside to purchase his voice, myself. But, for me, your lyrical writing and, it goes without saying, your musical writing ... in a class of their own, really. In addition: you really have a way of making me smile and forget about my day-to-day troubles, etc. . That's your trademark. No matter what you write, in which style, what it is about, etc. etc. etc. ... I leave, after listening to a song of yours, happy, smiling, and more capable of handling things in life.

I like to think that one can tell someone's personality by the kind of music they write. I may be totally wrong in correlating musical output to inner personality, mind you; but, in any case, your writing makes me think: ah, a good man wrote this. And THAT is a heck of an achievement, in itself.

I'll save the more "technical analysis" for another time, but I will say just one last thing:

Don't stop writing smile

Hi James.

It is always excellent to see you smile And thank you so much for your comments. Honestly, you have made my day. Again! Seriously!

My starting place for getting Saros to talk was to convert the notes that I wanted spoken from Sing Mode to Rap Mode. Once I had done that, I adjusted the timing of the notes to suit speech rather than music. I then adjusted the pitch of the notes to try and reproduce the intonation of the spoken word.

It actually took a bit of trial-and-error to get the voice to sound like it was spoken in a conversational way. While I was working on it, I found myself listening to lots of dialogue and trying to replicate how the speakers were saying things. My take away from all my listening was that accented syllables in English tend to be slightly longer in timing and higher in pitch than unaccented syllables. This is because English is a stress-timed language rather than a syllable-timed language like Spanish or French or Korean, for example. Once I fully understood the implications of that, things became easier smile

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In the previous version of Synth V, Rap Mode was indicated by pink notes on the piano roll while Sing Mode used the green notes.

I hope this information helps.

Thanks again for all your kind and thoughtful words.
--Noel

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