Anyone know if there’s anything out there that can generate plosives (vocal consonants) - like Vox Inhumana only for consonants? I guess it’s possible to create your own using Marc’s Shapemaster, but it would be a big undertaking.
There are vowel and speech synthesis modes. From the MI website…
Vowel and speech synthesis
A collection of speech synthesis algorithms.
HARMONICS: crossfades between formant filtering, SAM, and LPC vowels, then goes through several banks of LPC words.
TIMBRE: species selection, from Daleks to chipmunks. How does it work? This parameter either shifts the formants up or down independently of the pitch; or underclocks/overclocks the emulated LPC chip (with appropriate compensation to keep the pitch unchanged).
MORPH: phoneme or word segment selection. When HARMONICS is past 11 o’clock, a list of words can be scanned through by turning the MORPH knob or by sending a CV to the corresponding input. One can also patch the trigger input [3] to trigger the utterance of a word, use the FM attenuverter to control the intonation and the MORPH attenuverter to control speed.
AUX: unfiltered vocal cords’ signal.
It includes whole words, which you could sample or slice to get the specific sounds you want.
Yeah, I know it’s not exactly what you were looking for. But it might be the best option right now. Unless someone else can think of a mod that generates consonants. I couldn’t think of one.
Hi, have you checked out FW’s everlasting glottal stopper? While conceived as a companion module to Vox Inhumana, there’s no reason it could not be used on its own - sent through some kind of envelope/vcv, id think it could do some interesting consonant sounds without having to rely on samples
Here’s an interesting paper for bilateral plosives that lays out a model including cheek expansion and lip constriction, in case anyone wants to make the ultimate synth voice capable of “b” and “p” sounds only.